Aug 17, 2015
This post has kindly been written for us by Abigail Lane, who interned for IHR Digital in July 2015. During July 2015 I interned for the month at the Institute of Historical Research. Walking up to the grand building that is Senate House I felt full of nerves, but...
Aug 13, 2015
We begin with By Accident or Design: Writing the Victorian Metropolis by Paul Fyfe. Anna Feintuck and the author discuss a stimulating work of urban and intellectual history, literary criticism, archival theory, and more (no. 1815, with response here). Then we turn to...
Aug 10, 2015
This post has kindly been written for us by Abigail Lane, who interned for IHR Digital in July 2015. Connected Histories series is an online search directory consisting of a wide variety documents from 1500-1900 and containing nine research guides. The variety of...
Aug 6, 2015
We start this week with Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo, as Philippa Hellawell and the author discuss an intelligent, well-researched, and informative account of the practice of note-taking in early modern science (no. 1811, with...
Aug 4, 2015
A few months ago, I posted an image of seventeen volumes to the BHO Twitter account. These volumes were from several different series: London Record Society, Victoria County History Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire and Calendar of Scottish papers. That day, we were...
Jul 30, 2015
We start this week with The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy by Nicolas Tackett, as Michael Hoeckelmann and the author discuss a work that will revolutionise our understanding of medieval China (no. 1807, with response here). Next up is David D’Avray’s...
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