Nov 17, 2023 | Warburg Institute
This blog post was written by Maisie Brewster, one of the Library Graduate Trainees at the Warburg Institute Library, for History Day 2023 and explores library material relating eating in the Middle Ages. The act of drinking and eating is first and foremost to...
Nov 8, 2022 | Warburg Institute
This blog post was written by Kella Lawrinson and Simone Monti, Graduate Library Trainees at the Warburg Institute as part of a series of posts on the theme of ‘Human Discovery: Experiencing Science’ for History Day 2022. Nowadays, we tend to think of science as...
Oct 27, 2021 | Warburg Institute
This blog post was written by Chloe McCarthy, graduate library trainee at the Warburg Institute. It is part of a series of posts on Environmental History for History Day 2021. Books and plants. Two distinct things and yet when considering the history of man’s attempt...
Nov 18, 2020 | Warburg Institute
The Warburg Library has had to adjust quickly to the so-called new normal, but to plan its future the Institute is looking back to its roots for inspiration. Recent visitors to the Warburg Library will have noticed a raft of logistical changes to the library that we...
Nov 22, 2019 | Warburg Institute
This blog post was written by Alex Hewitt and Celia Stevenson, graduate trainees at the Warburg Institute for History Day 2019. The theme is taken from the Being Human Festival 2019. When we think of discoveries and secrets in libraries, there are a whole host of pop...
Dec 3, 2018 | Warburg Institute
This post was written by Manuela Pallotto Strickland and Friederike Wolpert, Graduate Library Trainees at the Warburg Institute. It is part of a series of posts on the theme of Women’s History to tie in with History Day 2018. “Behind every great library, there is a...
