Adventures of a library student

Dec 21, 2015

Hello, my name is Laura Jäger and I am an undergraduate student from Germany, studying library science at the Technical University of Cologne. As a part of my course I was given the opportunity to do my 16 week combined internship at the IHR (Institute of Historical...

History of Slavery in the Collections of the IHR

Dec 11, 2015

The IHR Library team have recently completed a comprehensive guide to the History of Slavery in the Institute of Historical Research Library collections.  The guide encompasses general historical works on the history of enslavement, the slave trade in Britain, the...
Revealing local history: a follow up

Revealing local history: a follow up

Dec 4, 2015

On 21 November, we held two simultaneous Wikipedia edit-a-thons in London and Leicester as part of the Being Human Festival. We did a lot of promotion of these events beforehand so we thought we should tell you how they went.  An edit-a-thon is an event where editors...

New reviews: holy wars, history of knowledge, Soviet spies and Gibbon

Nov 26, 2015

We start this week with Holy War, Martyrdom and Terror: Christianity, Violence and the West by Phillipe Buc, as Cecilia Gaposchkin and the author debate an enormously ambitious book (no. 1863, with response here). Then we have another in our occasional podcast series,...