This post was originally published on the School of Advanced Study Talking Humanities Blog. We talk to the director of the Institute of Historical Research about the history of history and the rise of statistical thinking in the Victorian period. Professor Goldman has...
In the mid-nineteenth century a million British workers depended on the cotton textiles industry for their livelihoods. Most of the raw cotton they turned into cloth came from the southern states of America and was cultivated by slave labour. When the American Civil...
by Professor Lawrence Goldman, Director Coming to the IHR feels like coming home. I was once a postgraduate working on collections in London who needed a base in the city and a warming cup of coffee in the IHR Common Room. And on those forays for doctoral research I...
Miles Taylor, Director of the IHR recently hosted a site tour of the IHR to view progress on the redevelopment. The group went through the entire IHR from top to bottom, which provided a clear idea of the IHR’s new spacial footprint in Senate House’s North...
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