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...
Nov 18, 2020 | Institute of Historical Research
When arriving on the third floor of the IHR library, amidst a large and varied collection concerning travel literature, navigation and colonialism, the average reader might find themselves drawn towards a conspicuous wall of shelves lined in uniform blue bindings with...
Jun 4, 2020 | Institute of Historical Research
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 of Historical Research Like many...
May 23, 2018 | Institute of Historical Research
This post was written by Sara Charles, Editorial Assistant for Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) and is cross-posted from the Institute of Historical Research blog. It is part of a series of posts on the theme of Women’s History in the lead up to...
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Jan 12, 2018 | Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study
This is a guest post by Jonathan Blaney, Digital Projects Manager and Editor, British History Online for the Institute of Historical Research. If you were at History Day 2017, you might have seen the new 3D printer on the IHR’s table. This post explains a bit...
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Nov 20, 2017 | Institute of Historical Research
From the titles of some of the IHR’s digital resources, you might think that they have limited geographical reach: British History Online…the Bibliography of British and Irish History. But the real world overspills geographical boundaries and the digital...
