Historical Societies and Related Organisations in the United Kingdom

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal

This is a wide-ranging list of historical societies and related organisations that exist primarily across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, but which also includes global history organisations which support the study of history. The list is divided into...

Finding historical sources for the first time

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

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...

Online Resources: Ancient History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

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: Early Medieval England

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

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;...

Seeking Thomas Howard in Rotherham: local groundings for a global life

by | 13 May 2019 | Guest Posts

In the last weekend of April, as part of the program for Professor Elena Smilianskaia, a visiting fellow at the University of Exeter, Dr Julia Leikin, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, organized a trip to the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, to find out more...