IHR Library reopens

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...

IHR Relocating: Some thoughts

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...

Mapping the Nation

Rachel Hewitt’s new book Map of a Nation: a Biography of the Ordnance Survey (see here for full review) charts the story of this longstanding British institution from its inception as an aid to the subjugation of the Highlands in the mid 18th century to...

The John Foxe Project

On 18 July 2011 a new edition of John Foxe’s seminal Acts and Monuments (more commonly called Foxe’s Book of Martyrs) was published by the Humanities Research Institute (University of Sheffield) as a fully developed online searchable edition. The Acts and Monuments is...

Health in History: a special multimedia virtual issue

Historical Research has produced a special multimedia virtual issue in conjunction with the Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2011, based on the theme of Health in History. The issue features podcasts of lectures from the conference, along with key articles from...

IHR relocation update

IMPORTANT NOTICE The IHR library will be closing from Thursday 28th July 2011 until Wednesday 3rd of August when it will open in its new location in the south block.  The opening hours remain the same as they are now.  Both the new IHR reception area and the Library...