Guidelines for producing digital editions

Porta Historica is a European network of research institutes which, in one way or another, are responsible for producing editions of historical texts. It currently has five members, the École Nationale des Chartes, the Institute of Netherlands History, the Commission...

A guest post from our American intern

As a digital publications intern at the Institute of Historical Research for the summer, I was given the opportunity to work on several exciting and diverse projects, many of them pertaining to the IHR website and the various databases. I can honestly say that there...

"Interchange: the promise of digital history"

The Journal of American History held an online discussion about digital history in 2008. The results were published in September 2008. The discussion is now available online. Topics covered include definition of digital history; students and digital history;...

Robert Dudley, in the hall, with the lead piping?

Intriguing evidence about the death of Amy Dudley is explored in a new book by Chris Skidmore – “Death and the Virgin”. The coroner’s report into the death and, more intriguingly, the membership of the jury are discussed in the Radio 4 Today...