Library move under way

Aug 21, 2014

The library’s move back to the refurbished north block of Senate House is progressing very nicely, and we’ve said a final goodbye to our temporary south block home, which is now almost completely cleared. So far everything is going to plan (more or less)...

Essay Prize in London History – deadline approaching!

Aug 19, 2014

A prize of £1,000 will be awarded for the best essay by an early career or doctoral researcher on the history of London, in a new competition sponsored by the Curriers’ Company in association with the IHR and The London Journal. Essays may be on any aspect of the...

New reviews: Archbishop Pole, post-war children, scholastic thought and Charles Darwin

Aug 14, 2014

First up this week we have Archbishop Pole by John Edwards, as Francis Young and the author discuss a magnificent example of first-rate historical scholarship (no. 1642, with response here). Next we turn to Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British...

Albert Gallatin’s Library in the IHR collections

Aug 11, 2014

The IHR library is excited to announce that we have discovered several items in the US collections that once belonged to prominent early American statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849). These works came to the library as part of the Conway bequests of the 1920s and 30s...

New reviews: Edward I, empire and race, Weimar and polio

Aug 7, 2014

Off to Edinburgh this weekend, just as things are hotting up in the independence campaign. However, as all those who know him will vouch, your deputy editor shies away from political controversy at all times, and my visit is solely a cultural one to take in a little...

Using Connected Histories to explore the British interpretation of Abraham Lincoln

Aug 5, 2014

This post was kindly written for us by IHR Digital intern Beth Page. As a History and American studies student, I thought it would be interesting to use Connected Histories to explore the British interpretation of Abraham Lincoln. I decided to look for sources that...