Oct 11, 2019 | King’s College London Library Services
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...
Sep 3, 2019 | Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
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,...
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Jun 25, 2019 | Researchers
This post was written by Esther Brot, PhD student at King’s College London. The blossoming of political participation in the United States has resonance with my own research on prisoners’ petitions in eighteenth-century London. Currently, People are taking to the...
May 1, 2019 | RHS Lindley Library
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...
Apr 27, 2019 | RHS Lindley Library
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...
Mar 6, 2019 | RHS Lindley Library
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...
Dec 21, 2018 | Churchill Archives Centre
This post was written by Andrew Riley and Heidi Egginton from the Churchill Archives Centre. It is cross-posted from the Churchill College website. In November, the Churchill Archives Centre took part in the annual History Day held at the University of London’s...
Dec 20, 2018 | CILIP Local Studies Group
This post was written by Stella Wentworth, Local Studies Librarian at the Oxfordshire History Centre reporting on the CILIP Local Studies Group attendance at History Day 2018. It is cross-posted from the CILIP Local Studies Group Blog. After eight months of...
Dec 13, 2018 | University of Leicester Library
This post was written by Sarah Wood and Elizabeth Blood of the University of Leicester Library. It is part of a series of posts on the theme of Women’s History to tie in with History Day 2018. About the University of Leicester Established in 1921 as a memorial to...
