New reviews: Slavery, Morocco, Carolingian Empire and Roosevelts

Aug 17, 2017

We start this week with Emily West’s Enslaved Women in America: From Colonial Times to Emancipation. Kristen Brill recommends a book which masterfully presents the narrative of women’s lived experiences in slavery through the prism of gender (no. 2155, with...

User Experience in the IHR Library: UXLibsIII

Aug 11, 2017

As part of the IHR Library’s ongoing commitment to researching and improving user experience in the library, earlier this summer I attended the UXLibsIII conference in Glasgow. The two-day conference brought together 180 delegates from 19 countries and it was...

The Anglo-Saxon era and the wider world

Aug 11, 2017

There has been much interest lately on the diversity of cultures in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon world, with many academics keen to promote research that highlights the positive interaction between communities, rather than existing as single homogenized societies. The...

Reviews in History as a research aid for A-Level students and undergraduates

Aug 11, 2017

This post has kindly been written for us by IHR Digital intern Tom Keidan. I’m an undergraduate currently interning with the IHR Digital department, and as part of this I have been working on the online journal Reviews in History. This is a resource that I’ve used in...

Latest reviews – shell shock, world’s fairs, Indian journalism and Europe’s India

Aug 10, 2017

We start this week with Stefanie Linden’s They Called it Shell Shock. Combat Stress in the First World War. Michael Robinson and the author discuss a book of great interest to shell shock historians, specialists in trauma studies, and those interested in the...

The king of King’s Cross

Aug 9, 2017

The past decade has seen the rise of a vast property development in the King’s Cross district of central London. As its residential zone nears completion, Dr Philip Carter considers the life of Henry Croft – founder of the Pearly Kings, and a late-Victorian resident...