Oct 13, 2017
Life writing in the US collection. Women writing during the American Civil War. Inspired by my recent reading of Sebastian Barry’s Days without End (borrowed from my local public library) I wanted to check out our holdings for the American Civil War 1861-1865...
Mar 10, 2017
Very appropriate to follow on from last week’s blog about Octavia Hill, a successful housing and social reformer, a new collection guide about Social Policy History has seen the light of day! My colleague Tundun and I have put together a guide for finding material in...
Mar 18, 2014
As the forthcoming issue of Past and Future details, a donation from the American Friends of the IHR has enabled the IHR library to purchase a collection of printed sources from the acclaimed (expensive) publisher Pickering & Chatto. All in all four different...
Jan 21, 2014
This month’s long-awaited premiere of Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbinder and Benedict Cumberbatch, has spurred us on to look for sources for this topic in the library. Not surprisingly, we found a vast selection. First...
Apr 26, 2013
The library has just received the diaries of a German lawyer and politician from Hamburg, Die Tagebücher: Ferdinand Beneke. Ferdinand Beneke was born in 1774 to a merchant family in Bremen. He graduated from Göttingen University in law and began a legal career in...
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