I’d like to share details about a conference/workshop I am organising in September. This is a one-day event taking place at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and below is the official call for papers. If you…
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Since leaving university I’ve been missing the organised educational experience in getting my history fix. While reading and documentary watching are great, I’ve been becoming increasingly addicted to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and particularly those offered by FutureLearn. FutureLearn…
For the first time since the Republic of Ireland gained independence in the 1920s, the Queen may visit Dublin next year. It is shocking yet completely understandable that no British monarch has ever visited Ireland, even though the Queen has…
After years of indecision about the location of the Battle of Bosworth, Leicestershire County Council have finally revealed that the site is on a field on Alf Oliver’s arable farm, two miles away from Ambion Hill, where the Bosworth visitor…
I’m now spending most of my time in the Warwickshire area instead of West London, so I’m going to try to utilise my position to look into the local history of this area. For this reason, I’m going to start…
Big news for our British musical heritage is that the famous Abbey Road Studios are likely to be sold by EMI in order to ease their financial problems. The Georgian townhouse built in 1831 was converted into studios by the…
I am very much aware of the embarrassingly massive delay in posting here and I plan to get back to regular posting this month, hopefully this message will push me in that direction. Thanks to those who have stuck with…
The trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson has now been released. It is as expected very different from any previous Holmes film and I must admit it does…
Using digital photography, scientists have been able to reconstruct the colours in tapestries at Hampton Court. The many tapestries commissioned by King Henry VIII, particularly the ten Abraham tapestries created to celebrate the birth of Prince Edward, used to be…
Here’s an interesting article by the BBC News website’s world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds about the possibility of taking a leaf out of Lord Palmerston’s book (Foreign Secretary 1841, Prime Minister 1855-1858 and 1859-1865) in order to solve the problem…