Introducing the new Director of the IHR

by Professor Lawrence Goldman, Director Coming to the IHR feels like coming home. I was once a postgraduate working on collections in London who needed a base in the city and a warming cup of coffee in the IHR Common Room. And on those forays for doctoral research I...

New reviews: Racisms, Homicide, Beau Monde and Marco Polo

This week we start with Francisco Bethencourt’s Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century. Panikos Panayi and the author discuss a book which moves the genesis of modern racial biologically determined ideology away from the ‘modern’ period (no. 1670, with...

Talk of Europe Creative Camp

One of our Amsterdam-based team members, Maarten Marx, is giving a presentation about DiLiPaD at the Talk of Europe Creative Camp on October 8, 2014 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. You can see the slides of Maarten’s talk here. See also...

Masculinity, mummies and margarine

One of the joys, and tribulations, of working on BBIH is the amount of material that comes across my desk (or indeed desktop). Joy in that there is such a range of material, and tribulation in the amount! As an indication of the range of material, I’ll highlight a...

Copying and Wifi facilities in the IHR – update

Our Wifi network is now in operation- we have coverage in all areas apart from the Foyle room. Please ask at library office or reception if you need details on how to connect. Work on setting up the copiers/printers is still ongoing. Sorry for the continued delays and...