New reviews: 3000 years of finance, medieval Welsh soldiers, literary salons and Salmonella

Feb 25, 2016

We begin with A Concise History of International Finance: From Babylon to Bernanke by Larry Neal, as Andrew Mcdiarmid reviews an engaging narrative that charts the evolution of finance from the personal to the impersonal (no. 1899). Then we turn to Adam Chapman’s...

Archaeology in the Collections of the IHR Library

Feb 19, 2016

Following work from Daniel Cesarani during his time volunteering within the IHR Library, the Library team have recently compiled a guide to the Library’s Archaeology holdings. The guide provides a general overview of the Library’s archaeological holdings,...

New reviews: Labour Party, Europeana, Early Modern accounting and slavery

Feb 18, 2016

We kick off this week with the History of the Labour Party by Andrew Thorpe, as Christopher Massey and the author discuss the most up-to-date study on the 115-year lifetime of the Labour Party (no. 1895, with response here). Then we have a review of the digital...

A new open access series with the Royal Historical Society

Feb 15, 2016

The IHR has the great pleasure of announcing our partnership with the Royal Historical Society (RHS) to publish a new, open access series of monographs and shorter form works, further solidifying our commitment to open access. New Historical Perspectives will seek to...

A Tour of the IHR Library’s North American Collections

Feb 5, 2016

Last week the IHR Library welcomed a group of final year undergraduate students from Kings College London for a tour of the Library and an introduction to the collections. The students were all researching North American history, with most currently undertaking...

New reviews: Civil War, Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Catholics and C20 Archbishop

Feb 4, 2016

We start this week with The War That Forged A Nation: Why The Civil War Still Matters by James M. McPherson, and Susan-Mary Grant and the author discuss the latest work by the Civil War’s most preeminent historian (no. 1887, with response here). Next up Kate Fleet...