by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) Though not the first travel guides ever written, the “Baedekers” contain several original quirks and features that must have influenced today’s Lonely Planet and Time Out writers. Starting off in the Travel Writing...
The library has just received the diaries of a German lawyer and politician from Hamburg, Die Tagebücher: Ferdinand Beneke. Ferdinand Beneke was born in 1774 to a merchant family in Bremen. He graduated from Göttingen University in law and began a legal career in...
We came across this edition of Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l’Amerique during the reclassification of the Colonial history collection. Jean Baptiste Labat (1663-1738) travelled to the West Indies in the 1690s as a missionary and worked as an engineer and...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) It was their dainty size and shape that initially drew our eyes to the IHR’s collection of Almanach de Gotha (Gothaischers Hofkalender ) books. Small but perfectly formed, these directories invite us to consider the...
by Michael Townsend (Collections Librarian) Title: Ceremonial de la coronación, unción y exequias de los reyes de Inglaterra Author: Pieter Christiaanszoon Bor Imprint: Pamplona : Gobierno de Navarra, 2008. (2 v.) Location: Classmark: B.2961/Ram This title provides us...
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