History Day 2018: Call for Papers and Save the Date

Mar 29, 2018

We are excited to announce that our sixth annual History Day will take place on 27 November 2018. The event is aimed at postgraduate and undergraduate students, academics, early career and private researchers who are looking for advice on how to find and make best use...

Home in the IHR library: inventories in the library collection

Feb 5, 2018

For the IHR Winter Conference on Home: New Histories of Living we are highlighting some relevant sources in the IHR library. Inventories of furniture and possessions are especially well represented in our large collection of primary printed material, a...

Home in the IHR library: a new architecture guide

Jan 25, 2018

The forthcoming IHR Winter Conference on Home: New Histories of Living has us thinking about the insides and outsides of buildings. The IHR library collections support a range of study on the subject of architecture, and the new collection guide highlights some of the...

Pollard the 3D Penguin in the IHR Library

Nov 30, 2017

To tie in with this year’s Being Human Festival theme of ‘Lost and Found’, the IHR Library recently installed a new exhibition focused on the four points of the compass and the library’s resources for each geographical area. I was tasked with...

Library Closure for Foundation Day 21st November 2017

Nov 13, 2017

The Institute of Historical Research Library will be closed on 21st November 2017.  The University of London is having its Foundation Day which is the annual celebration of the grant by William IV of the University’s first charter in 1836. The University...

New e-resource trial: Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War

Nov 9, 2017

  Now trialling: Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War Ends: Friday 8th December 2017. This e-resource is available through library PCs only. Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy provides access to government secret...