Jan 13, 2016
Thanks to the work of Daniel Cesarani, who recently completed a brief internship in the library, we have been able to produce guides for both the Byzantine and Crusades collection. Each guide has a brief overview of each respective collection and then goes into...
Jul 2, 2015
Two years before Burlington Arcade opened, the Gentleman’s Magazine published an article describing some of the reasons for its construction: It is said that after numerous deliberations, Lord George Cavendish [1st Earl of Burlington] has determined to appropriate a...
Apr 17, 2015
Next month, as you may have already heard, there will be a number of events held at the IHR to mark the bicentenary of Otto von Bismarck’s birth including an exhibition on the statesman and a lecture given by Prof. Jonathan Steinberg. This is naturally, therefore, an...
Jan 29, 2015
The library would just like to inform its readers that the Hakluyt Society Publications are now once more available on open access and can be found on the second floor of the IHR library in the north-east corner of the main reading room beside the Dutch...
Jul 3, 2014
Mercredi 14 avril 1915 Rue de la Régence, deux petites filles sautaient à la corde en chantant La Marseillaise. Des officiers allemands passèrent, entendirent, regardèrent…et sourirent. Et les deux petites continuèrent sans se douter qu’elles risquaient dex ans de...
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