Give the history room to breathe
A reader might arrive because of one person, place or question. The site should make that first piece easy to read and let the reader decide where to go next. It shouldn’t make them learn the structure of an archive before they find a story.
Put the author’s work first
The role of the website is to make Meredith’s work easy to discover and comfortable to read without flattening it into a feed. The editorial voice belongs to the historian. The design gets out of the way so the visitor can follow an idea rather than a menu.
That shows up in the resources collection: records are grouped by where they came from, such as chancery, exchequer and parliament, rather than thrown into one list. A reader can move from a story toward its sources without the site pretending that every surviving record is online.
The historical work and editorial voice are Meredith Guthrie’s.