New acquisitions in the IHR library

With the recent European and council elections, and anticipation building for the general election next year, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight some of our new material relating to politics, included on the most recent New Books Display in the library....

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Huntingdonshire

Last year British History Online published the complete series of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England. To introduce these volumes for readers who may not be familiar with the RCHME, we asked a number of experts to write introductions to particular...

Master’s programme in Garden & Landscape History

We are launching a new Master’s programme in Garden & Landscape History this October here at the Institute of Historical Research. Librarian and lifetime-learner Clare Brown was excited to hear about our new MA and wrote to tell us about her experience of Garden...

Text to ideology or text to party status?

This is a post by team member Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto: Is it possible to tell what a politician’s ideology is or what party they are a member of just by looking at a list of the words that they and don’t use? You might expect that even...

From Text to Political Positions

This post is from project team member Maarten Marx: The book From Text to Political Positions. Text analysis across disciplines edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof recently appeared. It contains chapters by DiLiPaD researchers Graeme Hirst and...