This post was written by Charlie Berry, a doctoral student at the Institute of Historical Research and cross-posted from the History Collections website. As a research student, a lot of my time is spent beavering away in libraries and archives. My thesis topic,...
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...
In the 1923 Handbook to the Gold Coast, editor John Maxwell advises British crown agents and merchants moving to West Africa on what fashions were appropriate in those far-flung colonies. Some of his recommendations fit seamlessly into our Lawrence of Arabia...
The IHR library’s focus on primary sources means that often we don’t hold material ‘about’ a particular subject such as fashion history. Instead, rich material for the history of a topic can commonly be found scattered across editions of...
The Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with Senate House Library, is delighted to announce the launch of a new online exhibition of digitised fashion catalogues from the First World War. These select catalogues of women’s clothing from 1916 and 1917...
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...
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