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1. Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online  

   In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British History Online.   With the generous support of the Marc Fitch Fund and the IHR, the Victoria County History (VCH) central office and IHR Library and […]

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2. Four New Victoria County History Projects 

   This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history is growing! 125 years after the VCH was founded, over the last few months it has welcomed four new and evolving VCH projects […]

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3. Digitising Red Books: the rigours and rewards of increasing online access to Victoria County History volumes (Part 2)

   In this second of two blog posts, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the challenges and potentials of digitising historical sources. As discussed in the earlier of these posts, digitising a VCH Big Red Book is far from straightforward and in many ways the experience is a microcosm for the digitisation of […]

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4. Digitising Red Books: the rigours and rewards of increasing online access to Victoria County History volumes (Part 1)

   In this blog post, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the process of digitising VCH volumes for British History Online.   My time as an intern at the IHR, working on one small part of the process of preparing Victoria County History volumes (non-born-digital historical sources) to be accessible online, has been […]

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5. Remembering the Dissolution of the Monasteries from Street Level: Research Scoping Activities – Summer 2023

   This blog post was written by Justin Colson, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Digital History in the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community (CHPPC). Some decisions can have momentous tangible impacts upon where we live: our collective memories, the stories we tell about our communities, and local sense of place. Monastic […]

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