Different approaches to black history

I usually get my ideas for posts about BBIH and its contents from external sources and recently received two such prompts. The Guardian ran an article on the teaching of black history where the questions, Did black immigrants come through Ellis Island? Were there...

Revealing local history

There is still time to sign up for one of our Being Human edit-a-thons in London and Leicester on 21 November. As part of the Being Human Festival, British History Online (BHO), Senate House Library (SHL) and Victoria County History (VCH) will be leading...

IHR workshop on web archiving

On 11 November the IHR held a workshop, ‘An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians’, for which we welcomed back two old friends from the BUDDAH project as speakers. The day opened with Jane Winters talking about why historians should be using web...

Private libraries of the rich and poor

Much of our cultural heritage owes a large debt of thanks to private collectors of manuscripts, incunabula and printed material; to those individuals who were interested in the accumulation of knowledge and the preservation of our literary history, and who saw fit to...