During the recent reclassification of the Institute of Historical Research Library’s Scottish Local collections, a pamphlet was discovered entitled A Brief Account of a Tour in the Highlands of Perthshire, July 1818 in a Letter to a Friend. The small pamphlet,...
To complement the popular exhibition of Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee at the Royal College of Physicians, it seems an opportune moment to showcase the resources listed in the BBIH. John Dee was a man of many interests, and his expertise in...
First up this week is Gregory Moore’s Defining and Defending the Open Door Policy: Theodore Roosevelt and China, 1901-1909. Michael Cullinane and the author disagree over an analysis of Theodore Roosevelt’s influence within the longue durée of US-Sino relations (no....
– New research guide for the Library’s Memory and Commemoration collections – With the emergence within historical research of the study of memory and commemoration practices, the Institute of Historical Research Library has seen a substantial growth...
While processing the latest new volumes to be acquired by the IHR Library, we came across an especially unusual assortment of works. Listed below is an interactive image gallery of some of our personal highlights from these latest acquisitions. All of the volumes can...
Modern students study their early modern predecessors This post has been kindly written for us by Dr Adam Crymble. Adam is a Lecturer of Digital History at the University of Hertfordshire and an Editor of the Programming Historian. He was also the Project Manager of...
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