Anyone wanting to keep up to date with new acquisitions in the IHR Library can do so in several ways. Firstly there are the New Books shelves, located next to room 321, where all new works start off regardless of their eventual location. For more of a snapshot you can...
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...
The Access Policy for the IHR will be changing in Autumn 2013. Until now, Friendship and Membership have been unified and Friends have had access to the library through their Friends’ subscription. Access to the IHR will now be provided through a new membership...
ISG Construction Ltd has been awarded the contract for the rewiring and refurbishment of the IHR wing of the Senate House north block. They are carrying out some preliminary inspections and surveys at the moment but during the week commencing Monday 24th June they...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) Though not the first travel guides ever written, the “Baedekers” contain several original quirks and features that must have influenced today’s Lonely Planet and Time Out writers. Starting off in the Travel Writing...
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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