by Talking Humanities | Oct 10, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
The fifth History Day will be taking place on 31 October and we cannot think of a better way to spend your Halloween. Started in 2014 in response to the rising need for libraries and archives to participate more heavily in promotion of collections, as well as the...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 26, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics
In March 2017 Dr Laura Carter and Dr Alana Harris of King’s College, London, organised a conference on ‘London’s women historians’, held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR). The day culminated in the launch of a portrait exhibition featuring 20 London women...
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 | Aug 30, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1. (1797). The Great Fire of London, public domain, Yale Centre for British Art It may be tempting fate to revisit a fire in a library, but as part of this autumn’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research is...
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...
