Nov 1, 2024 | Senate House Library
This blog post was written by Dr Karen Attar, Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London. You can explore more about Senate House Library’s collections and over 90 other history collections across the UK at History Day...
Nov 14, 2022 | Medical history
This blog post is part of a series of posts on the theme of ‘Human Discovery: Experiencing Science’ for History Day 2022. In our first session for History Day 2022, we are exploring how history helps us analyse past medical crises, shape public health policy, and how...
Oct 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
This post was written by Roger S. Wotton, Emeritus Professor of Biology at UCL, for History Day 2021. I always enjoyed walking on my own in the countryside and along the coast of South Devon, where I lived. My love of natural history and, especially, of life in water...
Mar 23, 2021 | Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Library
At a time when we are marking our first anniversaries of going into lockdown in the UK, historians and history students are no longer strangers to the vagaries of studying and researching history almost fully online. As collection professionals, we have tried to offer...
