Libraries Week: Friday

Life writing in the US collection. Women writing during the American Civil War. Inspired by my recent reading of Sebastian Barry’s Days without End (borrowed from my local public library) I wanted to check out our holdings for the American Civil War 1861-1865...

Libraries Week: Thursday

This post was written by Kate Wilcox (IHR) and Jordan Landes (Senate House Library) during Libraries week 2017. We are excited that the fifth History Day event will be held on 31 October. The event began in 2014 as a way to bring  libraries and archives together in...

Libraries Week – Wednesday

Book Stacks, Book Lifts…and Daleks ?!?: the London Libraries Graduate Trainee Programme Tomorrow marks the start of another year of the London Libraries Graduate Trainee Programme. As in previous years the day will be marked by an informal gathering of library...

Libraries Week: Tuesday

Happy Libraries Week!  “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future” – Ray Bradbury Hello I’m Ceri, I have recently joined the Institute of Historical Research Library as a Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Before joining the IHR,...

Libraries Week: Monday

“If you have a great library like Columbia, an open stacks library, I mean that’s fantastic, because so often it’s the book next to the one you’re hunting for that suddenly wags, crooks the fingers and says: ‘Come hither, I’m what you’re actually looking for.’”…...

Letters of Queen Victoria 1837-1861, Volume I

B.791 VIC/A Letters of Queen Victoria 1837-1861, Volume I Over summer, our Wohl Library intern, Rachel Moore, spent some time looking at our collections of letters relating to Queen Victoria.  In this post, she looks at the publishing project inaugurated by Edward...