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...

IHR Friends Summer Outing: Kenwood House

Aug 4, 2014

This post was written for us by Kelly Spring, one of our Friends committee members This year’s annual IHR Friends summer outing took us to Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath on 8 July. Closed in 2012 for renovation and conservation of its interior and exterior, the...

Preparations for the library move

Aug 1, 2014

We are beginning to move books and finalise shelving layouts  in preparation for the move. Some books which have been on open access need to be temporarily moved into closed access to be shelved in sequence. This particularly affects books at B.0 (British...