The prospect of a new MA course in garden history, alongside the IHR’s short course in Garden history and the History of Gardens and Landscapes seminar prompted us to write a guide to garden history resources in the IHR library. Although not a core specialism of the...
We are delighted to have been awarded AHRC funding for a new research project, ‘Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities’. The project aims to transform the way in which researchers in the arts and humanities engage with the archived web, focusing on...
The IHR library has a great set of London-based collections, relating to all aspects of the capital’s rich and varied history. We’re drawing on these for a series of ‘Around London’ posts, starting with the infamous tale of St Martin’s Round House. Although now...
This post has been kindly written for us by Dr. David Parrish, a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. After three years of research and writing, I submitted a PhD thesis and passed my viva in September 2013 (probably the most nerve-racking...
Much discussion today of the trustworthiness, of lack thereof, of different names. In the interest of not alienating sections of our readership, I will have to redact our conclusions, but I would be interested to find out if readers share our irrational prejudices…...
Following on from my colleague Mette’s post on slave narratives I’d like to draw your attention to some of the other resources available within the library. Understandably we have large holdings concerning the British and American slave trades, specifically the...
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