Our photo competition is ongoing through the summer, when we will be celebrating British History Online’s 10th anniversary. As with last month, a great variety of images were added our BHO Flickr group. This month we shortlisted three, not because the quality of...
We came across this edition of Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l’Amerique during the reclassification of the Colonial history collection. Jean Baptiste Labat (1663-1738) travelled to the West Indies in the 1690s as a missionary and worked as an engineer and...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) It was their dainty size and shape that initially drew our eyes to the IHR’s collection of Almanach de Gotha (Gothaischers Hofkalender ) books. Small but perfectly formed, these directories invite us to consider the...
Historians don’t often like to think about data management. Indeed, it is almost considered an ugly word or a taboo. Data Management gets in the way of the interesting stuff – the research, the learning. Nevertheless, it is vital to the work that we do. History is...
On 21 March 2013, the British Academy published a response to RCUK’s revised open access policy and guidelines. The statement contrasts the limited time period available for consultation unfavourably with the more considered approach being taken by HEFCE, and...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) Proceedings and resolutions of ‘The West India Body’, consequent on Mr. Secretary Stanley’s communication of the outline of the intended measure respecting slavery was requested from the library’s store...
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