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...

Library move starting today

The move of the library collections going into closed access will start today. As this affects material on all floors there is likely to be alot of disruption and the lift will be difficult to access. The move of the collections remaining on open access is expected to...