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...
Online Resources: Modern Britain (1900-present)
Archigram Archival Project http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through an online database of the architectural group Archigram (1961-1974), who were “amongst the most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural...
Online Resources: Medieval Europe
A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land 1095-1189 https://www.dhi.ac.uk/crusaders/ This resource enables researchers to access a free database on the biographies of crusaders, including their country of origin, role, contingent leader, as well as the crusades they...
Online Resources: British History
Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) https://royalhistsoc.org/publications/bbih/ This resource allows researchers and scholars to access and search through an online database containing the latest publication information on a variety of history topics...
Online Resources: Early Medieval England
Anglo-Saxon Cluster http://www.ascluster.org/ The resource is an online portal for four existing online publications on Anglo-Saxon sources from projects conducted at King’s College London and University of Cambridge. The resources listed on the Cluster are: ASChart;...
Online Resources: Early Modern Europe
1641 [Irish] Depositions https://1641.tcd.ie/ This online resource contains the digitised images and transcriptions of the Irish depositions that were written down in seventeenth-century Ireland. The depositions were witness testimonies, from predominantly Irish...
Online Resources: Early Modern Britain
Bentham Papers Database http://www.benthampapers.ucl.ac.uk/ This resource provides researchers with access to a database focused on the papers of early modern English utilitarian philosopher, jurist, economist, and social reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). The...
RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Roadmap for Change II
Header Image: The sculpture "A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)" by British artist Marc Quinn stands on the plinth in Bristol where the statue of the seventeenth-century merchant and slave-trader Edward Colston had been since 1895. The statue of Colston was removed by...
Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two
Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...
From Cold-War Bunker to Art Fund Museum of the Year: Transforming Gairloch Museum
On 12 October, during BBC’s UK-wide #MuseumPassion week, Gairloch Museum was announced as a winner of the highly prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020. Recognition of the success of an eight-year £2.4M project was a huge accolade for a small, volunteer-run,...
King Oswald’s Raven: Public Engagement During the Coronavirus Pandemic
In late March, three days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first national lockdown in response to COVID-19, a funding application that Johanna Dale and her academic and creative partners had worked hard on, was automatically rejected as funding streams...
