Plans for the refurbished IHR library

As described previously, work on the IHR refurbishment is well underway, and we expect to be returning to the Senate House North block in August or September this year. The library will have a smaller footprint than before, but the layout has been carefully planned to...

New reviews: Heresy, revisionism, modernity and infanticide

A real treat for medievalists this week, as eminent academics Pete Biller and R. I. Moore engage in a full and frank discussion of the latter’s The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe – a must-read! (no. 1546, with response here). Next up, we...

Announcing BUDDAH – Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities

We are delighted to have been awarded AHRC funding for a new research project, ‘Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities’. BUDDAH aims to transform the way in which researchers in the arts and humanities engage with the archived web, focusing on data...

British History Online – The Next Ten Years

by Adam Crymble (BHO Project Manager) I got an email this morning from one of the readers of British History Online. It was from a 90-year-old lady in South Africa who expressed her delight at being able to read about her childhood home in Surrey. She had wanted to...

Managing your research: from creating to sharing

To be effective researchers historians must learn skills to enable them to manage their research processes so that everything they do is recoverable, usable, and useful. This workshop is intended to help postgraduate students and early career researchers to think more...

Personal narratives in the US collection – part 2 (travel writing)

This post was written for us by library intern Lisa Smoltino. Travel writing is quite the trend these days, with books and blogs gaining popularity more and more every day.    People have been interested in this style of writing for decades, however, and a look...