Home in the IHR library: a new architecture guide

Home in the IHR library: a new architecture guide

The forthcoming IHR Winter Conference on Home: New Histories of Living has us thinking about the insides and outsides of buildings. The IHR library collections support a range of study on the subject of architecture, and the new collection guide highlights some of the...
Ernő Goldfinger and a visit to 2 Willow Road, Hampstead

Ernő Goldfinger and a visit to 2 Willow Road, Hampstead

By Philip Carter As a survey of domestic experience, the IHR’s 2018 Winter Conference—‘Home: new histories of living’ (8-9 February)—ranges widely in its locations and forms of historical dwellings. At the same time, individual properties stand out. These include No....

The Deana & Jack Eisenberg Lecture in Public History 2017

The Second Founding:  How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the American Constitution Speaker: Professor Eric Foner (Columbia University) The preservation of the American nation and the destruction of slavery, the two most profound consequences of the Civil...

What is Microhistory Now?

2 June 2017, Wolfson Conference Suie, IHR Microhistory rose to prominence more than three decades ago after the publication of Carlo Ginzburg’s Cheese and the Worms (1976) and Natalie Davis’s Return of Martin Guerre (1983).  It highlighted the agency as well as...