A big thank you to everyone who joined us for History Day 2025! 🎉 We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year! @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social #HistDay25

The enthusiasm for #History at this year's #HistDay25 is considerable and palpable. History's popularity and appeal is an asset we must work with to better demonstrate the personal, professional, civic and social value of historical knowledge and understanding. @ihr.bsky.social #Skystorians

Today, our Graduate Trainees have been representing Kew Library & Archives for #HistDay25 at Senate House Library. It's been a great way to share highlights from our collections with potential students and researchers as well as discover more about other libraries and archives! #KewLA

Selected History Day swag! What an incredible buzz and an amazing opportunity to explore archives and collections from across the UK, right here in Senate House. Thank you @ihrlibrary.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social! #HistDay25

We're delighted to be returning to the Institute of Historical Research's History Day again this year! Tuesday 4th November from 11:00 to 16:00. Rumour has it our stall has sweets... #HistDay25 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social

Our trainees Sasha and Sarah have written a blog showcasing some of the spookier and scarier books in the IHR Library’s collection - check it out! 🎃 🕸️ blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/hall... #halloween #libraries #blog

1 week to go until History Day - don't forget to sign up! Read about why History Day is such a fantastic event in this blog by Claire Langhamer: buff.ly/ySfBuWR #HistDay25 @senatehouselib.bsky.social

This History Day, explore hidden queer histories and surprising discoveries in the Queer History and Heritage Trail, with collections from The Postal Museum, @rcphysicians.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social and beyond! Blog: buff.ly/pzsC6wm #HistDay25 @ihr.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social

We can't wait to see you there! 🥳

We look forward very much to taking part in #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November, hosted @ihr.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social, and featuring more than 70 organisations that enable historical research. It's chance to discover the rich infrastructure that can support your work. #Skystorians

New blog from @ihrlibrary.bsky.social trainees, Sasha Pond and Sarah Snelling, highlighting new titles in which reflect the diversification of our collections across Black history.#BlackHistoryMonth blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/blac...

Great to see the recording of @richardjansell.bsky.social 's recent paper on travel journals and servants' lives on the Grand Tour is now avaiable on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website. @long18thsem.bsky.social See: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

⭐ Ahead of History Day 2025, why not take a moment to read our blog on LGBTQ+ books in the IHR Library? The blog highlights some of our more recent titles, uncovering hidden stories, challenging narratives and celebrating queer history 🏳️‍🌈 👉 Read here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/new-... #HistDay25

Including one of the latest titles from our Bristol Studies in Medieval Culture series with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @bristolcms.bsky.social

🫢 it turns out my book is on display at the IHR 🤩 Amazing! www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/lang...

This is a recently discovered 'suffragette chain'! Want to know more? Come and hear me speak on 'The Speakers and the Suffragettes', online and in person at the @histparl.bsky.social seminar at the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social on Tues 28 Oct at 5PM! Free - book here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We've updated our new books displays on the 1st and 2nd floors. There's a wide range of subjects spanning from the medieval to the 21st century. If this interests you and you're not a member, membership to the library is open and free to everyone - www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

We're so excited for the Queer History and Heritage Trail at this year's History Day! Don't forget to sign up here 👇 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Welcome IHR @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social! You can find them and our other projects, seminars and people in our starter pack go.bsky.app/2AUxmcA Let me know if we've missed anyone.

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-...

Great to meet you yesterday.

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