Native American Women Resources in the BBIH

Mar 8, 2017

To tie in with the IHR’s upcoming conference Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017, we have gathered a selection of resources from the BBIH that address the themes of Native American women in Colonial America. The women in...

New reviews: Reformation, leaks, Wolfenden and medieval counsel

Mar 2, 2017

We start this week with All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, as David Davis navigates a useful map of the untidy academic overgrowth of Reformation historiography (no. 2075). Next up is Lloyd Gardner’s War on Leakers: National...

Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie

Feb 28, 2017

Anyone craving a bit of Enlightenment might want to head to the third floor reading room of the Institute’s library where there is a small display showing a few choice articles from Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie. Thanks to the generosity of...

Sexuality and LGBTQ History in the IHR Library

Feb 17, 2017

– LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. (February in the UK, October in the US)  –   In honour of LGBT History month, a new...

New reviews: Ireland, Soviet Union, US egalitarians and C14 magic

Feb 16, 2017

We start this week with Liam Kennedy’s Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? Penelope Corfield and the author discuss a manifesto to Irish pluralism, which should be required reading for all historians of Ireland (no. 2067, with response here)....