IHR move back to refurbished north block: August 2014

The refurbishment is going to schedule and we are expecting the move back to the Senate House north block to take place in late August, to coincide with the period when the Institute of Classical Studies closes (16th – 30th August). There will be some disruption...

Welcome to our 11 bursary holders

One of the main aims of the project is to involve arts and humanities researchers in the development of tools for analysing web archives, thereby ensuring that those tools meet real rather than perceived researcher needs. We recently ran an open competition inviting...

Canadian Immigration and Settler Narratives

Welcome to the latest blog post detailing the Canadian collections at the IHR. In this installment we explore the wide variety of sources available in the library for the study of Canadian immigration history.  Throughout the nineteenth century publishers and...

New reviews: Queens, migration, public opinion and Moscow

Many apologies for bragging about having overcome our technical problems, then not being able to send the email, then sending two emails…as Julian Cope used to say halfway through some shambolic concert: ‘My inner soundtrack is telling me – be more...

Introducing PML (Parliamentary Markup Language)

This post is from the project’s metadata specialist, Richard Gartner: A key feature of the Dilipad project is its use of the XML schema PML (Parliamentary Metadata Language) as its core metadata format. PML was devised as part of an earlier project, LIPARM...