Anyone interested in how the profession of nursing in this country developed as it did should check out a new institutional history of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Reviewed this week in Reviews in History, the book charts the complicated path the RCN had to...
The Mexican Suitcase is actually 3 cardboard boxes. They contained over 4,000 negatives of photographs taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour taken during the Spanish Civil War. For many years the photographs were thought to be lost but they were...
Charlotte Trower (1855-1928) is a little-known amateur botanical artist who worked with another amateur botanist George Druce to produce over 1,800 scientifically accurate watercolours of British flora. Her life, art, and her collection are outlined in a recent...
Reviews in History, IHR Digital’s online journal, is offering a listing service of links to other reviews from today. The aim is to allow readers to compare and contrast a number of opinions of the books and resources featured each week. Some initial examples of...
The British Universities Film and Video Council has a proven track record in delivering high-quality and contextualised digital resources. Their News On Screen is the leading resource for the study of newsfilm and cinemagazines documenting British newsfilm production,...
The IHR Digital team are delighted to announce an innovative new venture in partnership with the British Library. A new advisory panel of historians has been convened to work with the BL’s web archiving team in developing policy for identifying web content most...
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