History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History in the LSE Library
This guest post was written by Paul Horsler, History Librarian at LSE Library. Come to History Day on Tuesday 20 January and meet the team from the LSE Library in person! LSE’s motto ‘to know the causes of things’ is an apt motif for historians, as we spend...
Introduction to the Heinz Archive and Library at the National Portrait Gallery
This guest post was written by Bryony Millan, Archivist at the National Portrait Gallery. If you like what you read here, come and meet the team from the Heinz Archive and Library at History Day! The National Portrait Gallery’s Archive & Library supports...
The Newsam Library and Archives, UCL Institute of Education
This guest post was written by Nazlin Bhimani and Dan O’Connor of the Newsam Library and Archives, UCL Institute of Education. If this post sounds interesting, you can talk to Nazlin and Dan at History Day, as well as come listen to Dan talk about the Digital...
Introduction to Lambeth Palace Library
This guest post was written by Dr Naomi Percival, Collections Librarian at Lambeth Palace Library. If you enjoyed this post, learn more about Lambeth Palace Library at their stall at History day! If you go past on the bus you see a forbidding wall enclosing an array...
History Day talks
History libraries & research open day is actually several events rolled into one. Twenty-six libraries and archives will have stalls in a history fair in Macmillan Hall, a large room with enough space for several tables to allow one-on-one consultations with...
Libraries and archives working together for researchers
Librarians and archivists are great at collaborating. Library collections are often built up with a specific remit so as not to overlap too much with other local or specialist libraries. The Institute of Historical Research library collections, for example, have...
2nd Annual History Day
Save this date: Tuesday 20 January 2015! For anyone studying and researching history or related disciplines, this will be an important opportunity to locate key libraries, archives and collections. Following up on the successful 2014 History Day, Senate House Library...
After the event: Research libraries & research open day
by Jordan Landes (SHL History Librarian) Senate House Library and the Institute of Historical Research Library hosted a well-attended and interesting event aimed at postgraduate students, independent and early career researchers last Tuesday, 18 March. The first...