IHR to return to its North Block ‘home’

After three years the IHR will be returning to its ‘home’ in the north block following completion of its £8m refurbishment.  Everything is on track with the contractors ISG, ably managed by BDP, for the finishing of the works by mid- July 2014 which will allow the...

British History Online photo competition: November and December

Over December the IHR Webmaster, Marty, was back in his native Australia, so we decided not to have a November winner for our Flickr competition. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the BHO Manager, Bruce, left us in November and without these two technically competent...

Personal narratives in the US collection – part 1

This post was written for us by library intern Lisa Smoltino. Within the extensive US collection are a number of personal papers and diaries that allow researchers a look into the past through the eyes of those who have lived through it.  The IHR US collection...

Historical Research – February 2014 (vol. 87, no. 235)

‘To[o] much eating stifles the child’: fat bodies and reproduction in early modern England. Sarah Toulalan Other contents: Hiding the truth: exegetical discussions of Abraham’s lie from Hugh of St. Victor to Stephen Langton. Emily Corran Dorset in the period of...

Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data

We were delighted to hear on 15 January that the IHR, along with the universities of Amsterdam and Toronto, King’s College London and the History of Parliament Trust, has been awarded funding by the international Digging into Data Challenge 2013. ‘Digging...