‘Business as usual’: School life in Britain during the Great War

The IHR library has an outstanding collection of university and school records. Following on the theme of this year’s Anglo-American conference, we’ve been looking at what they contain about the First World War. School registers often have lists of teachers and former...

The Ursulines and Jesuits of New France

Welcome to the introductory entry in a series of blog posts aiming to promote the rich North American collections at the IHR library. This month we focus on the highlights from our often overlooked Canadian holdings beginning with a selection of four works published...

Digging into Parliamentary Data tutorial

Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx (both University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial at Digital Libraries 2014, London, called Digging into Parliamentary Data. Date: Monday, 8th September. The tutorial will show how to incrementally annotate textual corpora, starting from...

New reviews: Black Detroit, guano, predestinarians and Stalinism

Just occasionally the monastic silence that prevails in the IHR Digital office is broken by the gentle chiming of hushed conversation (work-related of course). In one such interlude this morning I mentioned today’s reviews, and expressed my concern that perhaps a...