May 25, 1965: Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title.

• May 25, 1969: Midnight Cowboy, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released.
• May 25, 1979: The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing over 270 people.
• More events from This Day in History: May 25
• May 24, 1844: Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"
• May 24, 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.
• May 24, 1899: W.T. McCullough of Boston, Mass., opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.
• More events from This Day in History: May 24
• May 23, 1788: South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.
• May 23, 1934: Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.
• May 23, 1949: The German Federal Republic came into existence.
• More events from This Day in History: May 23
• May 22, 1455: The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans.
• May 22, 1849: Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.
• May 22, 1992: Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show.
• More events from This Day in History: May 22
• May 22, 1881: Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.
• May 22, 1927: Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic (from New York to Paris) in his monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.
• May 22, 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland).
• More events from This Day in History: May 22
• May 20, 1927: Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.
• May 20, 1978: Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
• May 20, 1996: In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
• More events from This Day in History: May 20
• May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.
• May 19, 1928: The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.
• May 19, 1935: British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
• More events from This Day in History: May 19
• May 18, 1896: The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."
• May 18, 1953: Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

May 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–82, American poet and essayist, born in Boston. See biography and links to other people born today...

• May 24: Queen Victoria
• May 23: Margaret Fuller
• May 22: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• May 22: Alexander Pope
• May 20: James Stewart
• May 19: Malcolm X
• May 18: John Paul II
• May 17: Ayatollah Khomeini
• May 16: William Seward
• May 15: Pierre Curie
• May 14: George Lucas
• May 13: Joe Louis
• May 12: Florence Nightingale
• May 11: Salvador Dali
• May 10: John Wilkes Booth
• May 9: John Brown
• May 8: Harry S. Truman
• May 7: Edwin H. Land
• May 6: Robert Peary
• May 6: Karl Marx
• May 4: Audrey Hepburn
• May 3: Niccolo Machiavelli
• May 2: Catherine the Great
• May 1: Arthur Wellesley
• Apr 30: Franz Lehár
• Apr 29: William Randolph Hearst
• Apr 28: James Monroe
• Apr 27: Ulysses S. Grant
• Apr 26: John James Audubon

London sheriffs' court roll

An edition of the court roll for 1320 is now live. Edited by Dr Matthew F. Stevens, it gives a complete edition and index of London's only surviving such roll for the medieval period, for July-Sept 1320. It was produced as part of the Centre for Metropolitan History ESRC-funded 'London women and the economy before and after the black death' project (2009-10).

• Usability test for BHO and ReScript
• Site changes
• Usability test for British History Online
• Survey of London monographs
• New datasets for London history now live
• New video tutorials available
• Four more Somerset volumes live
• London Record Society
• Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714
• Five more House of Lords journals
• Thoroton's history of Nottinghamshire now complete
• New Ordnance Survey Map Function
• Blomefield's History of Norfolk
• Rymer's Foedera With Syllabus
• Calendar of Papal Registers Now Complete
• Easier Annotation
• Calendar of Treasury Books now complete
• Parliament Rolls of Medieval England now online
• 10 volumes of the Journal of the House of Lords
• New volumes for VCH Wiltshire
• Lincolnshire wills
• Suckling's History and Antiquities of Suffolk
• Calendar of State Papers, Colonial now complete
• New Timeline Function on BHO
• Cecil Papers
• Six Volumes of Papal Documents
• British History Online user survey
• New sources for the history of Norwich
• Calendar of Papers Preserved in France

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 1 - Eburacum, Roman York

The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England survey, entirely dedicated to Roman York, known as Eburacum. The volume covers roads, military and civilian sites, burials, inscriptions, glass and other fragments of Roman York.

• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 2 - The Defences
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 3 - South West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 4 - Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5 - Central
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 3 - Roman London
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 5 - Archaeology and Churches in Northampton
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6 - Archaeological Sites in North Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 2 - Archaeological sites in Central Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 3 - Archaeological sites in North-West Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 4 - Archaeological sites in South-West Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 1 - Archaeological sites in North-East Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 1 - South
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 2 - North
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 1 - South West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 2 - East
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3 - North West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 2 - Central and South West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 4 - South East
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 1 - Westminster Abbey
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 4 - The City
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 1 - North West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 3 - North East
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 2 - West London
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 5 - East London

The Big Three: The Paris Peace Conference

An audio revision guide that explains the aims of the Big Three - Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Wilson - at the Paris Peace Paris. It explains the factors that affected their demands and highlights the differences between them.

• Cold War Revision: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
• Germany 1919-1945: The Weimar Republic
• Cold War Revision: The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cold War Revision: The Origins of the Cold War
• IGCSE History: CIE Paper 2 (German Involvement in the Spanish Civil War)
• IGCSE History: CIE Paper 4 (Alternative to coursework)
• Cold War Revision: Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968
• IGCSE History: CIE Paper 2 (Sources)
• American Involvement in Vietnam
• The Road to War
• League of Nations: The 1930s
• Paper 1 Exam Tips
• League of Nations: The 1920s
• Exam Skills: How to succeed with sourcework
• British Depth Study: How did women gain the right to vote?
• British Depth Study: How were civilians affected by World War 1?
• VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW: The Cold War
• Germany 1919-1945: The Rise of Hitler
• Nazi Germany: Life in Nazi Germany
• Nazi Germany: How did the Nazis Keep Control?
• International Relations: The Paris Peace Conference
• British Depth Study: Liberal Reforms
• Paper 1 Exam Tips
• League of Nations: The 1920s
• Exam Skills: How to succeed with sourcework
• British Depth Study: How did women gain the right to vote?
• British Depth Study: How were civilians affected by World War 1?
• VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW: The Cold War
• Germany 1919-1945: The Rise of Hitler