History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
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New Worlds and New Approaches : The Hakluyt Society Collection at the IHR
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...
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...
Women’s suffrage at home and away
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...
3D Printing in the School of Advanced Study, University of London
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 more...
British History Online and the Bibliography of British and Irish History – not just British
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 world even...