Before they left our rather brilliant trainees, Lara Short and Sarah Admans, created a blog highlighting some of the titles you can find in our collections on South Asian and South Asian diaspora history blog.history.ac.uk/2025/09/sout... Further titles can be searched for via the catalogue.

The IHR will be closed tomorrow, Thursday 18th September, for our staff away day. Apologies for the inconveniene. We will be open as usual on Friday.

New books time again - recent acquisitions including subjects as diverse as Russian diplomacy, Italian cooking and @georgetakei.bsky.social autobiographical account of Japanese-American internment. To consult these and other collections, remember our membership is open and free to everyone.

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New Month, New Week, New #VCH County. Thanks to the lovely people at the Victoria County History readers can now find volume 1 of the new VCH #Westmorland series in the Foyle Reading room on the 1st floor of the library - search.libraries.london.ac.uk/permalink/44...

Launching today📣 Check out our new History Day Discover Collections website! #HistDayNorth #DCDC25 exhibitions.london.ac.uk/s/history-da...

Drop by the British Records Association stand at #DCDC25 today and say hello!

If you're at #DCDC25 today why not come and say hello! We're taking part in this year's History Day North from 12.30-16.30, where Lydia and Laura will be ready and waiting to answer all your Borthwick history questions :)

Who is joining us at #HistDayNorth and #DCDC25 @durham-university.bsky.social this year? 🎉 We can't wait to tell people about our amazing collections at History Day North tomorrow Tuesday 29th July 12:30-4:30pm!

The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

From next week there will be some changes to our opening hours: Thursday 24 July - the IHR will be closed From 28 July-30 August: Mon-Friday 09.00-18.30 No Saturday opening Regular hours will resume on 1 September Details about our opening hours are here - www.history.ac.uk/about-instit...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 4500+ new references. Discover further details about this update in our latest On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/bibl... @brepols.net

Now @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social gets the #London #SummerSchool 2025 started. What does a #rebel look like? What does it mean to rebel?

Fabulous themed displays for the @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool (2025 theme: #Rebels) from my brilliant colleagues @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. @miketownsend.bsky.social currently introducing participants to the collections before heading off to explore...

It's new books time again. Displays on the 1st and 2nd floors show a wide range of new acquisitions from medieval astrology to postwar Detroit, from the literature inspired by the Norman Conquest to the latest VCH Short about the parish of Cradley. Feel free to come have a browse

With it being the 4th of July we thought we'd let readers know, who are researching or reflecting on the US, of our collections, with strengths including the Revolutionary War, the Constitution and the early Republic; we also collect sources up to the present.

I highly recommend the 'Interviews with Historians' exhibition @ihr.bsky.social, launching the wonderful resource www.history.ac.uk/library-digi.... Fascinating insights into how #historians do #history + some gorgeous media archaeology! Congrats to @ihrlibrary.bsky.social colleagues & all involved.

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Find out more about how @lisapine.bsky.social made our new podcast series A Historian's Life blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/ihr-...

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Today probably won't be the first hot day of the summer. Water bottles can be refilled from the drinking water tap in the common room and the cooler parts of the library tend to be on the north (tree-facing) side of the building and the basement reading rooms.

Our excellent @ihrlibrary.bsky.social colleagues are here to help

To mark Canada's National Indigenous History Month, here are some of the work readers can find in the library about the histories and experiences of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. These are part of the Canadian history collection which can be found in the North American reading room.

New books in the IHR Library! Browse titles on Caribbean museology, commemorative practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17th-century gambling, postal documents as historical evidence, and more📚

Join us on the 26 June to celebrate the online publication of Interviews with Historians and a new podcast: A Historian’s Life. The event will be followed by the opening of the Interviews exhibition in the IHR Common Room. www.history.ac.uk/events/speak...

Studying, researching or teaching histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

Just a reminder, the Institute will be closed over the bank holiday weekend including Saturday 24th May to Monday 26th May, reopening again at 9am on Tuesday 27th May. Details about the IHR's opening times can be found here: www.history.ac.uk/about-us/ope...

May is Local and Community History Month! Find out more about English Local History Collections in the IHR Library: www.history.ac.uk/library/coll...

In the religious history collection readers can find editions of papal letters, works on specific popes, councils and papal government including papal conclaves (shelf-mark ER.512) and the College of Cardinals (ER.546) Find out about the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library/coll... #conclave

New books have arrived at the IHR Library! Explore the latest titles in our collection, from Black newspapers in Latin America and the VCH Short of Southend, to the historiography of colonial Bengal and the only known autobiography of a Yorkshire suffragist

Over this bank holiday weekend the IHR and library will be closed from 8.30pm on Friday 2nd May, reopening again on Tuesday 6th May at 9.00am. www.history.ac.uk/about-us/ope... We hope everyone has a good break and see you again next week.

Explore some of the newest additions to the IHR Library’s queer history collection in a blog post written by Lara Short, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant📚 blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/new-...

Join us and @brepols.bsky.social for a webinar introducing the new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) interface. Date: Monday 28 April 2025 Time: 17:00 (Brussels) / 11:00 (Eastern Time, USA) / 16:00 (London, UK) Duration: 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A More info: bit.ly/BBIHwebinar

We will be closed from Thursday 17 April - Tuesday 22 April inclusive, reopening on Wednesday 23 April at 9am. Have a lovely Easter break!🌷

New to the library is this two volume work about the brief period of press freedom introduced in Denmark by the Enlightenment physician/statesman J. F. Struensee. It offers a thorough survey of the titles produced during the years 1770-73 - catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b4676...

@ihrlibrary.bsky.social survey closes this Friday 11 April. Have your say!

New books on the first and second floors! Browse titles on the Stonewall riots, Japan's imperial legacies, Scottish witchcraft trials and more.

In celebration of Women's History Month, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant Sarah Admans has written a blog showcasing a selection of the wide range of sources that can be found in the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social focusing on women and their lived experience. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/03/wome...

There's still plenty of time to take part in this year's library user survey. Your feedback is really welcome. And you can also opt in to enter a £25 book token prize draw

Delve into a wealth of #ReviewsInHistory queer history book reviews in this special issue curated by Lara Short, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, in celebration of LGBT+ History Month 2025.

New additions to our Jewish History Collection includes a set of the interviews of Holocaust survivors as part of an ongoing oral history project by My Voice (myvoice.org.uk).

We’re in Cambridge for the Cambridge Archives and Collections Fair, with a wide variety of fellow stall holders @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

Happy International Women's Day! 🥳💪 We have a large collection of materials on women's history at the IHR. Here are some of our most recent acquisitions at the library. Pay us a visit if you're interested in finding more.

Got a minute? Please complete our annual library survey. We'd love to hear what you think! buff.ly/euZHYnA

Drop in next week for the 2025 Archives & Collections Fair. This year we are thrilled to welcome several new organisations including @jisc.bsky.social Archive & Library Hubs, @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, @senatehouselib.bsky.social and Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH). #ArchiveFair25

Quite pertinent...unfortunately - Claiming the people's past: #populist politics of #history in the twenty-first century added to the library's historiography collection - buff.ly/4SC2XGt

Here is a selection of new migration and refugee history titles added to our, in this instance, Brazilian, US and Jewish history collections. To discover more sign up to the workshop on Migration and Refugee Narratives taking place on the 20th March buff.ly/kBrnmcD

In light of the German elections, we have a range of works on modern German political history. To find out more, consult our collection guide https://buff.ly/4hVyrDI