Jonathan Blaney, 11 November 2009

The Calendar of Treasury Books is now complete. These calendars detail state income and expenditure from the Restoration up to 1718, in 32 volumes. This series complements two others on BHO: the Calendar of Treasury Papers and the Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers. Read all three series here:

• Treasury Books, Calendar
• Treasury Papers, Calendar
• Treasury Books and Papers, Calendar

Jonathan Blaney, 14 October 2009

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England are now available on British History Online, as part of the premium content section of the site.

In this publication historians describe every parliament held between 1275 and 1504, that is those for the reigns of monarchs from Edward I to Henry VII. Where the rolls for the parliament survive, as happens for nearly all of the later parliaments, these are transcribed in full. Alongside this is presented a modern English translation of the original Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English. A tabular format makes for easy comparison between the parallel texts. An appendix for each parliament details what is otherwise known of the business conducted there.

Subscribers should be assured that this important enhancement to our premium content is added at no extra cost.

Read the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England here:

• Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

Jonathan Blaney, 29 August 2009

10 more volumes of the Journal of the House of Lords are now live. These new volumes cover the period 1718 to 1764, and thus the end of the reign of George I, the whole of that of George II, and the very beginning of the reign of George III. Four more volumes will be added to the site in the coming months. Read these volumes, and others already live, here:

• Lords Journal

Dr Peter Webster, 06 August 2009

Six new volumes for Wiltshire are now live. The addition of volumes 5, 7, 11 and 13-15 completes the published coverage of the parishes of the county. Read all fifteen available volumes at:

• Victoria County History: Wiltshire

Dr Peter Webster, 15 July 2009

Transcribed wills for the historic county are now live. These three volumes, covering the period from 1271 to 1532, were originally published by the Lincoln Record Society between 1914 and 1930. Read them, and wills from other counties, at:

• Wills and inventories

Dr Peter Webster, 07 July 2009

Volume 1 of Suckling's 'History and Antiquities' is now live. This is the first of the two volumes of the Reverend Suckling's projected History of the county that were completed in the 1840s. They describe three and a half hundreds in the north-east of the county. Volume 2 will be added in the next few weeks. Read them at:

• Suffolk, Suckling's History and Antiquities of

Jonathan Blaney, 04 July 2009

We have now added the final volume of the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial. This volume, number 45 in the series, deals with the year 1739. Read all 46 volumes of the series here:

• State Papers, Colonial; Calendar

Jonathan Blaney, 30 June 2009

We are pleased to announce a new monarchs timeline function for British History Online. This is a compact way of displaying all relevant series for a particular monarch; it will enable our users to see at a glance the periods covered by the given volumes in a series and, additionally, to drag the timeline forward and backwards in time.

At the lowest level is a compressed timeline, divided into decades, with a representation of the density of coverage on BHO. In the main body of the timeline the reign is indicated by a red line, while the BHO volumes are shown as green lines. Click on any green line to get a summary of that volume's contents and a link directly to the volume. At the top some of the key events of the reign are shown as green boxes. Click on any box for more information about the event in question.

To scroll simply drag the timeline. For example, to move forwards in time click on the timeline and drag to the left. Or use your mouse's scroll wheel to move back and forth. We plan to add more timelines in the future, but to see all of our current timelines go to our Periods page and choose a monarch. Alternatively try the Henry VIII timeline here:

• Henry VIII

Jonathan Blaney, 10 June 2009

The Calendar of the Cecil Papers Preserved in Hatfield House is now live. These 24 volumes cover the papers of the leading political family of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was chief advisor to Elizabeth I, and his son Robert was Secretary of State to both Elizabeth and James I. Unusually, these state papers have remained in the family archives at Hatfield House. Among other highlights, this calendar covers the Casket Letters attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots and material relating to the Gunpowder Plot. Read the whole series here:

• Cecil Papers, Calendar

Jonathan Blaney, 25 April 2009

Six volumes of Papal documents are now live. These consist of Petitions to the Pope, the Calendar of Vatican Papers for the first part of the reign of Elizabeth I, and three volumes of the Papal Registers. The Registers are entries in the Vatican archives which relate to Great Britain and Ireland; more volumes in this series will be published online in the coming months. Read these six volumes here:

• Papal Documents