Transitions from Taught Degrees to Research Courses and Careers Advice for History Graduates
In this post, historian Dr Andrew Foster offers guidance about the transition for students undertaking taught undergraduate and Masters degrees to research courses, as well as his thoughts on future careers for history graduates. He turns the spotlight towards the...
Tips on Using Bibliographic Software
Linda Robertson, who has extensive experience working as a librarian, offers her views on the advantages of using technological aids for bibliographic research. In this post, she gives a detailed analysis about how to use the bibliographic software EndNote as a useful...
Bridging ‘Digital Divides’ in Virtual Teaching
We should not assume that others interact with the digital world in the same way as we do ourselves. In this post Dr Andrew Smith and Dr Mary Morrissey consider the challenges that many students encounter when required to engage with online teaching. As noted by...
Finding historical sources for the first time
In this guest post, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers some starting points and advice to those who are using historical sources for the first time. She points the reader to some online...
The Anatomy of a Thesis
In this post, historian Dr Andrew Foster provides research students with a general guide about the main elements of writing up a PhD thesis. The advice Dr Foster gives is based on years of discussions with research students in seminars and workshops about the...
Online Resources: Ancient Greek and Roman History
Ancient Greek-English Lexicon https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/glp/introduction This resource provides researchers with access to a two-volume lexicon, which covers the most widely read ancient literary texts, from Homer to the Hellenistic poets,...
Online Resources: European History
The Baudelaire Song Project https://www.baudelairesong.org/ The resource hosts a database of all the song settings produced over Charles Baudelaire’s poetry through classical music and popular music settings, in French and in other translations, in musical scores and...
Online Resources: Ancient History
Imaging Papyri at Oxford http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/ This resource gives researchers access to digitised images of Greek and Latin papyri in Oxford and Naples. The website was created as part of the Oxford University online database of digitised images of papyri....
Online Resources: History of London
Charles Booth's London: Poverty Maps and Policy Notebooks https://booth.lse.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through the notebooks from Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903) by providing visitors to the site to search through 41...
Online Resources: Global History
An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/ This resource provides researchers with free access to an online database of catalogued material of Shakespeare-related content in international film,...
Online Resources: Medieval Britain
Bartrum Project https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/datasets/bartrum-genealogical-project This resource provides researchers with a fully searchable electronic version of Peter Clement Bartrum’s out-of-print Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400 (8 vols) and Welsh Genealogies AD...
Online Resources: Victorian Britain
Brunel Collection: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) Papers https://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/special-collections/strengths/brunel/ The resource contains a diverse collection of material relating to Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Researchers can search through the online...
