Simon Forman, the notorious London astrologer, recorded 10,000 consultations between 1596 and 1603. Most of these are medical. Forman’s casebooks can now be searched by name (of any party involved), date, sex, age, topic of consultation and many other criteria. The edition includes images of all the manuscript pages of Forman’s first volume, and more [...]
MarineLives, a project using collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of High Court of Admiralty primary manuscripts, 1650-1669, is recruiting volunteer project experts, project facilitators and project associates. MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts, which were originated in the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. The [...]
John Morrill, professor of history at Cambridge asks why Oliver Cromwell remains Britain’s most controversial ruler, and what the morbid story of Cromwell’s head after his death has to say about British history. Visit The Brower’s Five Books Interview to find out what five books, past and present, he recommends for studying the life and [...]
http://earlymoderncommunities.com is a website associated with a literature review project entitled ‘Urban Communities in Early Modern Europe c1400-1700′. This AHRC Connected Communities scoping study aims to examine recent directions in research that takes community as a central theme. The project is run by Fabrizio Nevola and David Rosenthal through the University of Bath. Between now [...]
A new project has been launched to help postgraduate historians set up and run blogs to promote their work. Blogging technology has created new opportunities for postgraduate historians to engage with specialist and non-specialist audiences, and to demonstrate the impact of their work by creating and informing new, virtual, public spheres and spaces. While there [...]