Getting Muddy: The IHR Wohl Library Mudlark

Getting Muddy: The IHR Wohl Library Mudlark

Jul 4, 2019

By Catherine Clarke and Matt Shaw IHR staff recently embarked on a ‘mudlark’ in the IHR Wohl Library, hunting for hidden treasures relating to the River Thames. With thirty minutes on the clock, colleagues searched the collections (without the aid of catalogues), then...
On writing ‘Mother: An Unconventional History’

On writing ‘Mother: An Unconventional History’

Apr 30, 2019

By Sarah Knott For her new book, ‘Mother’, the feminist and historian Professor Sarah Knott chose the striking sub-title ‘An Unconventional History’. Here Sarah explains her choice, the boundaries between conventional and unconventional...
Who were London’s ‘Ladies of Quality and Distinction’?

Who were London’s ‘Ladies of Quality and Distinction’?

Sep 26, 2018

By Janette Bright ‘Ladies of Quality and Distinction’, a new exhibition at London’s Foundling Museum, traces the history of women’s involvement in the creation and running of the Foundling Hospital—from the twenty-one mid-eighteenth century ‘Ladies’, who signed...
Interview with Professor Lawrence Goldman

Interview with Professor Lawrence Goldman

Feb 2, 2016

This post was originally published on the School of Advanced Study Talking Humanities Blog. We talk to the director of the Institute of Historical Research about the history of history and the rise of statistical thinking in the Victorian period. Professor Goldman has...