History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
New Worlds – Special collections at 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, and Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies. Senate House Library is one of the co-organisers of History Day and you will...
Sex, (almost) in the city: Southwark – a constituency of contrasts
This blog post was written by Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of the History of Parliament Commons 1461-1504 project. History of Parliament will be participating in History Day 2020. This blog post is cross-posted from the History of Parliament local history blog series...
Research Under Lockdown: Open and Free Access Research Materials for Historians
This post was written by Matthew Shaw, Librarian and Michael Townsend, Collections and Metadata Librarian at the Institute of Historical Research. It is cross-posted from On History, a digital magazine published by the Institute...
History Day 2019 & Engineers at War
This piece is cross-posted from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive and Library blog. Along with colleagues from other engineering institution libraries we attended this year’s History Day held at Senate House, London. History Day is an annual history fair...
Discoveries and Secrets from the 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...
Franz Baermann Steiner and the Jeremy and HG Adler collections at King’s
This post was written by Brandon High, Special Collections Officer in the Foyle Special Collections Library at King's College London. It is cross-posted from the King's Collections blog. The collections of the novelist, poet and distinguished historian of the...
Tracing ‘Captain Lobe’: Discovering the Real-Life Model for a Fictional Salvationist in the Archives of The Salvation Army
This post was written by Flore Janssen, Digital Humanities Project Officer at The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre The opening lines of the novel In Darkest London (1891; first published as Captain Lobe in 1889) read: … just two years ago, a little man,...
Study Session: How to research your local park
Image: [partial view] Coloured postcard of Finsbury Park with a family group, 22 February 1906. RHS Lindley Collections. RHS Lindley Library, London, Friday 12 July 2019, 2 – 4.30 pm A study session exploring the history of London’s parks and green spaces, including...
Study Session: Take Chelsea Home
RHS Lindley Library, London, Friday 14 June 2019, 2 – 4.30 pm This study session with Chris Young, Editor of The Garden, looks at how you can take ideas from the Chelsea Flower Show and translate them into your garden at home. It includes a chance to see original...
Hidden Horticulturists: Training Gardeners at the Royal Horticultural Society
Exhibition: RHS Lindley Library View of the flower garden at Valley Field, Fife, Scotland, from Humphry Repton's Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening. London: 1805. 4th March – 6th May 2019 Monday – Friday, 10am - 5pm The RHS has been...