by Talking Humanities | May 19, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
Image: Wencelas Hollar image: Earl of Essex, Wikimedia Commons This week sees publication, by the Institute of Historical Research, of the Cromwell Association Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers – an online record of more than 4000 officers who fought for...
by Talking Humanities | May 18, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, From the Archives, SAS Space Data Repository
Image: © Shutterstock Harry Raffal, a PhD candidate at the University of Hull, studies the online development of the Ministry of Defence and the British Army. Below, he discusses elements of this work, which will feature at a Web Archiving Week hosted by the School of...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 30, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Fellowships & Networks, From the Archives, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Dr Cynthia Johnston discusses the benefits of the ‘academic partnership’ between the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, which she says has resulted in the rediscovery of a major research resource in the UK. In 2014, the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 18, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Events, Features, From the Archives, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Professor Clem Seecharan (above) has written some ten books on the colonial history of Guyana including the recent Hand-in-Hand: History of Cricket in Guyana, 1865-1897. As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 14, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, From the Archives, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Republished
Siobhan Morris, a trainee librarian at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), writes that during the recent reclassification of the institute’s research library’s Scottish local collections, a pamphlet was discovered entitled A brief account of a tour in the...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, From the Archives, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
The stories of five remarkable objects in Senate House Library’s latest exhibition By Richard Espley, Head of Modern Collections, Senate House Library Since its founding, Senate House Library has amassed numerous artefacts to support teaching, to record the history of...