Web usability and learnability

Web usability can loosely be defined as the ease with which someone can achieve a particular goal using a website. This might be buying a book, paying for a TV licence, registering for an event, or commenting on a historical source. Whatever the activity, the system...

Update on IHR move

The move of the IHR Library is expected to take place between Friday 15 and Thursday 28 July. The IHR will remain open during this period, and reader places will continue to be available.  However the Library service will be subject to disruption, and not all areas...

Digital impacts

Just back from an excellent one-day conference organised by the Oxford Internet Institute, on ‘Digital impacts: how to measure and understand the usage and impact of digital content’ (20 May 2011). Among other things, the event presented the work of the...

Marc Fitch lecture 2010

The text of Steve Hindle’s 2010 Marc Fitch lecture, ‘Below stairs at Arbury Hall: Sir Richard Newdigate and his household staff, c.1670–1710’, has been published by Historical Research. Currently available online in our Early View issue.

Historical Research – new online articles

The following new articles are now available online in Historical Research’s Early View issue:’Anglo-French cultural transmission: the case of John Locke and the Huguenots’ by Delphine Soulard’Church, state and law: solutions to lay contumacy...

Library arrangements during relocation

First Published: 14 February 2011 Original Location: IHR News The IHR has now agreed with the University which sections of the Library collection should take priority for open access during the next phase of the refurbishment of Senate House. As indicated in the...