Two interesting journal articles recently caught my attention about the abolition of the slave trade. The first looks at how the anniversary was commemorated on British television, Rough Crossings and Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death: Documentary, Drama and...
We are rapidly approaching the start of a new academic year and therefore a new season for our research seminar programmes. Most of the seminars for the next year will still run in the Senate House building in which the IHR is located but will likely have a room...
by Alison Gage (Bibliographical Services Librarian) In 2002 the IHR Library was the grateful recipient of Professor David Douglas’s collection of Anglo-Norman and French books, donated by his daughter Ann Douglas. The collection was fully catalogued and integrated...
One of the books covered this week by Reviews in History is Memory of War in France, 1914–45: César Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly by Matthew Perry, which aims to bring to attention the voice and viewpoint of a dissident French intellectual who lived through both...
The IHR Library reopened on the 3rd floor of the Senate House South Block on 3rd August, as planned. During the move process extra space for books became available. This meant that the Welsh, Byzantine and main Spanish collections were added to the material...
Matt PhillpottIHR History SPOT Project Officer Today will be the last time that I step into my 3rdfloor office in its current form. Soon I will be in new digs along with the rest of the Institute elsewhere in Senate House. As I look at all the crates filled with IHR...
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