The library has just received the diaries of a German lawyer and politician from Hamburg, Die Tagebücher: Ferdinand Beneke. Ferdinand Beneke was born in 1774 to a merchant family in Bremen. He graduated from Göttingen University in law and began a legal career in...
At a recent IHR conference, IHR Digital gave a presentation on digital resources to a group of senior academics and budding historians from China. One of the discussions centred around the paucity of Chinese digital resources. Surprisingly within weeks, and rather...
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...
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