Library collections in the new IHR

We’ve now been open for two weeks, and the library staff are getting used to the new layout just as much as readers are.  The book move took months of planning, and it’s pleasing to see how well the new arrangement works in practice and that most readers have been...

Update on availability of facilities in the new IHR library

We’re still waiting for the photocopying/printing equipment to arrive, and for the Wifi to be connected. We apologise for the inconvenience the delay has caused. We will provide updates when we have further information. You are welcome to use your own photographic...

Filling the Gaps: Livery Company Archives and the ROLLCO Project

This post was kindly written for us by Katie George, archivist of The Salters’ Company, with the help of the CMH’s very own Mark Merry. September sees another new update to the Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) project, with the publication of...

New Reviews: Middle Ages, Mexican conservatism, smell and prohibition

Our featured piece this week is on The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood. Paul Fouracre and the author discuss a thoroughly researched and written tour de force (no. 1650, with response here). Next up is Benjamin Smith’s The Roots of Conservatism in...

Researching the Crimean War using Connected Histories

This post was kindly written for us by Caitlin Brown, one of our interns via the Leicester University / IHR Digital programme. I decided to use Connected Histories to research an area that I knew something about, but that I would like to investigate more. I picked the...