ISG Construction Ltd has been awarded the contract for the rewiring and refurbishment of the IHR wing of the Senate House north block. They are carrying out some preliminary inspections and surveys at the moment but during the week commencing Monday 24th June they...
British History Online recently published the six inventory volumes for the county of Northamptonshire. To help to put these volumes in context, Professor Chris Dyer has kindly written a guest blog post explaining their importance. Chris Dyer is Emeritus Professor of...
British History Online has been publishing the inventory volumes of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) series. We currently have 30 volumes online, with another dozen or so to come, and it’s a pleasure to be able to make this painstakingly...
Over the last couple of months we have published two volumes about Roman remains in England: Roman London and Eburacum, Roman York. These have been part of our current digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments inventory series for England. This...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) Though not the first travel guides ever written, the “Baedekers” contain several original quirks and features that must have influenced today’s Lonely Planet and Time Out writers. Starting off in the Travel Writing...
For this month’s competition the voting among my colleagues gave us a shortlist of three. In no particular order the two runners-up were: Tudor Barlow’s picture of the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral This will be a familiar setting to many but the light...
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