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...
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 IHR’s forthcoming Winter Conference, to be held on 8-9 February 2018, takes as its theme Home: New Histories of Living. The title reflects the event’s two main aims: to bring together those working on past domesticities (and above all on the experiences of home...
This blog post was written by Dr Wojciech Janik, Assistant Librarian at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. It is cross-posted from the Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services blog. It is one of a series of...
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...
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...
