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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Image of the month July 2015: Fashion history in church monuments
One of the types of source that we came across when writing a guide to fashion history for the IHR's annual Anglo-American Conference was church monuments. The IHR library has a good collection of books about these, many with illustrations and detailed descriptions. A...
Bismarck and the Wars of German Unification: History collections at the IHR
This post was written by Michael Townsend, collection librarian at the Institute of Historical Research, and cross-posted from the IHR's blog. This month there will be a number of events held at the IHR to mark the bicentenary of Otto von Bismarck’s birth: an...
Learn more about the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Simon Baker of the Institute of Historical Research presented fantastically useful information about using the Bibliography of British and Irish History, providing advice on how best to search it, how to take advantage of special features, how to set up email alerts...