In reaching the final stages of our usability project, I’ve started to think about the kind of change which this process forces upon the system manager/developer. It’s not just about working your way through a list of software modifications; it’s...
Goodbye ‘old’ IHR The IHR is now relocated into its temporary space on 2nd and 3rd floors of the South Block of Senate House. The library can be found on floor 3 sharing a site with the Institute of Classical Studies Library. The Director, development...
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...
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