Library Closure for Foundation Day 21st November 2017

Nov 13, 2017

The Institute of Historical Research Library will be closed on 21st November 2017.  The University of London is having its Foundation Day which is the annual celebration of the grant by William IV of the University’s first charter in 1836. The University...

New e-resource trial: Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War

Nov 9, 2017

  Now trialling: Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War Ends: Friday 8th December 2017. This e-resource is available through library PCs only. Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy provides access to government secret...

Latest reviews: William the Conqueror, Stefan Collini, blackface and Indian news

Nov 9, 2017

We begin this week with David Bates’ William the Conqueror. Matthew Bennett and the author debate the extent to which this biography shows sufficient empathy for its subject (no. 2192, with response here). Next up is Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture...

British History Online and the Bibliography of British and Irish History – not just British

Nov 8, 2017

From the titles of some of the IHR’s digital resources, you might think that they have limited geographical reach: British History Online…the Bibliography of British and Irish History. But the real world overspills geographical boundaries and the digital...

Latest Reviews – US revolutionaries, French sexual revolution, Victorian historicism and London smoke

Nov 2, 2017

We begin this week with Tom Cutterham’s Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic. Lindsay Chervinsky praises a book which offers a complex and active view of the 1780s (no. 2189, with response here). Next up is From Vichy to the...

Latest Reviews – Witches, Cats & Dogs, Soldiers and Print Culture

Oct 26, 2017

We begin this week with Ronald Hutton’s The Witch: A History of Fear From Ancient Times to the Present. Willem de Blécourt and the author debate – I think it’s fair enough to say that they don’t agree (no. 2185, with response)! Next up is The...