In a major collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, the IHR is taking Fashion as the theme for its annual conference in summer 2015. Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and...
This post was written for us by Karen Attar from Senate House Library Special Collections. The conference “The Great War at Home” supplied an excellent opportunity for Senate House Library to provide a small complementary display. The only problem was how best to use...
Kate Tiller, founding fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford and chair of the British Association for Local History As the centenaries of 1914–18 finally come upon us, the challenges facing historians to research and interpret the impact of the First World...
Preparations for the IHR’s 83rd annual Anglo-American Conference are in full swing now, with the conference just one week away. This year’s Anglo-American Conference, The Great War at Home, will explore the impact of the First World War on home fronts across the...
The IHR library has an outstanding collection of university and school records. Following on the theme of this year’s Anglo-American conference, we’ve been looking at what they contain about the First World War. School registers often have lists of teachers and former...
This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting some of the sources we have in the IHR library on the subject of this year’s Anglo-American conference, The Great War at Home. We have a range of sources covering all aspects of the war on the home front from...
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