Mexico-United States Relations: the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920

Mexico-United States Relations: the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920

Aug 23, 2017

The IHR Library holds a wealth of resources for the history of Mexico-United States relations, covering the period succeeding the Mexican-American War up until the twentieth century. A range of sources, such as, treaties, diaries, autobiographies and letters, are...
Mexico-United States Relations: Porfiriato (1876–1910)

Mexico-United States Relations: Porfiriato (1876–1910)

Aug 18, 2017

The IHR Library holds a wealth of resources for the history of Mexico-United States relations, covering the period succeeding the Mexican-American War up until the twentieth century. A range of sources, such as, treaties, diaries, autobiographies and letters, are...

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

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...