The 1930s and early 1940s saw the IHR relocated several times. In the summer of 1938, the IHR finally moved into the new Senate House building, although not yet into the space that it occupies today. In the early years of its tenancy, it was located on the third floor...
The schedule detailing which parts of the Library collections will move when has now been agreed. The timing of the collection moves is dependent on each book’s final location. A list of these can be found here:...
In 1926 the government proposed to sell back to the original vendors, the Bedford trustees, the entire Bloomsbury site which had been set aside for a range of new University of London buildings. The IHR was given notice to quit and a vigorous press campaign followed....
Every now and then a digital research project comes along which attempts to make innovative use of various available technologies and turn them into something coherent and extremely useful for an academic discipline. I feel that the IHR’s ReScript Project is one such...
During the two year period of relocation to the 3rd floor of the South Block, one-third of the IHR Library will remain on open access. Much of the remainder of the collection will be housed in the Senate House Tower, and the rest will be in offsite storage in Egham,...
Recently added to British History Online is the first in a series of datasets for early modern London. Generated by the People in Place project, each dataset is focussed on family and household in a group of London parishes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
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