Nov 11, 2016 | Senate House Library
This post was written by Richard Espley, Head of Modern Collections at Senate House Library. It is part of a series of blog posts on the theme of Hope and Fear in library and archive collections, as part of the Being Human festival and History Day 2016. Joanna...
Jun 20, 2016 | Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Library
This is a guest post by Sarah Milligan, the Publishing Manager of British History Online, a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. She recently took...
Apr 11, 2016 | Senate House Library
We’re excited to announce that we have now completed cataloguing the last few accruals to the Ruth First Archive, the majority of which was catalogued in 2000 with the generous support of the Ruth First Memorial Trust. Ruth First was a leading anti-Apartheid...
Nov 4, 2015 | Birkbeck, University of London, Library, British Library, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Library, The National Archives
One feature of History day on 27 November is the one-on-one guidance provided by the scheduled research clinics. These clinics will allow researchers to spend time with a librarian or historian to discuss resources, training and research, addressing specific needs....
Oct 20, 2015 | Archives and Records Associations’ (ARA) Section for Business Records, British Library, Business Archives Council, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Global Law Library, Institute of Historical Research, King’s College London Library Services, Lambeth Palace Library, Library of the Society of Friends, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, LSE, Newsam Library and Archives, UCL Institute of Education, North American Collections Group, Senate House Library, The National Archives, TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University, Wellcome Library
The North American Collections Group within the University of London is pleased to announce an American Trail as part of this year’s History Libraries and Research Open Day on 27th November 2015. This strand will be of interest to postgraduate students and early...
Oct 14, 2015 | Senate House Library
This is a guest post written by Christine Anderson, research librarian of Commonwealth Studies and Latin American Studies, and Mura Ghosh, research librarian of US Studies and Social Sciences, both ofSenate House Library. Christine can answer all your questions...