Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library

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The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.

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Notice showing the August opening hours for the Institute of Historical Research. From the 1st August the IHR will be open from 09.00-18.30 Monday to Friday and closed on Saturday. The IHR's regular times will resume on the 1st September.
Graphic of a printer with the text "The printing service will be unavailable this Wednesday 15 July due to essential maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused." below.
Illustrations from The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden (3rd floor reading room, shelf-mark CG.171/Hak/3/35)
A selection of book titles recently acquired by the IHR library in May 2026.
Image showing the edition of Proceedings of the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-1583 acquired by the IHR Library in May 2026.
Image showing a range of new titles added to the IHR Library's collections in May 2026.
Text reading May Bank Holiday Closures. The IHR Library is closed: Saturday 2 May, Monday 4 May. Saturday 23 May, Monday 25 May. There is a cartoon of a row of colourful books beneath this.
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Picture of an open book on a red cushion. The inside cover and front page of a book. On the inside cover there is a bookplate stating Presented to THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH by Miss E J Davis Bequest. On the front page there is handwritten text stating Miss Eliza Jeffries Davis from her fellow -Fellows Elsie V Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, 19 March 1935.
A selection of new items acquired by the IHR library in March 2026.
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Stack of books including Life and Love in Nazi Prague, Medieval Love Letters, A Singular Marriage, Lovers in Wartime 1944 to 1945, and The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard.
Display of new local history titles (January 2026)
Black and White photo of a woman pushing someone in a wheelchair below the text Disability History Month.
Image showing some new acquisitions to the Institute of Historical Research Library - October 2025
A collage image showing some of the new acquisitions in the IHR library in September 2025
Image showing Volume 1 of the VCH Westmorland series (Lonsdale Ward) available in the IHR Library, 1st floor, Foyle Reading Room.
History Day: Discover Collections website
Sign showing IHR opening hours over the summer. Text reads, 'Summer opening hours. Thursday 24th July, closed for staff away day. From Monday 28 July - Saturday 30 August, Monday-Friday 09.00-18.30; Saturday closed. From Monday 1 September we will resume longer hours.'
A selection of new acquistions at the IHR library, July 2025.
Image showing the entrance to the Americas Collection reading room on the 2nd floor of the Institute of Historical Research
Image in the public domain from BL MS Harley 3469 (Splendor Solis)
A selection of titles about the history of Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples which can be found in the library's Canadian history collection on the 2nd floor of the library.
New books on display in the IHR Library.
Image of the Senate House building, London set against a blue sky.
Image of the title page of 'The triple crown: an account of the papal conclaves from the fifteenth century to the present day' by Valérie Pirie (ER.512/Pir)
A screen shot taken from The Times Digital Archive of an article from the Times (31st March 1976) outlining details of the establishment of the UK May Day bank holiday to be introduced in 1978.
IHR Library Easter Opening Hours sign
Image showing the two volumes of Grov konfækt: tre vilde år med trykkefrihed, 1770-73 (IHR Library shelf mark EDA.33/Hor)
A selection of new books on display in the IHR Library.
An image showing published editions of Holocaust survivor interviews, part of the My Voice oral history project and added to the library in March 2025.
Image of 7 books on the topic of women's history
IHR library survey poster
Image of the cover of Claiming the people's past : populist politics of history in the twenty-first century / edited by Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh, Walderez Ramalho, Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt.
An image showing a selection fo new acquisitions about refugee and migration history to be added to the library's Jewish, US and Brazilian history collections.
A range of works on German political history from the IHR Library
New books display in the IHR Library
Image showing a selection of new acquisitions to the IHR library, January 2025.
An image which gives details of the free online training session, 'Researching migration and refugee narratives' taking place on the 20th March 2025 from 14.00-15.30 GMT - to attend one can sign up here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/researching-migration-and-refugee-narratives
Image of new books at the IHR on the first floor
Image of the title page of Rois et Serfs by Marc Bloch (IHR Copy)
A collage image showing a selection of local history titles from several of the IHR library's collections, including our Low Countries, French, German, Mexican and Italian collections.
Image showing a selection of new books added to the IHR library in November 2024.
Image showing the volumes of the Écrits politiques by Aimé Césaire, which can be found in the 2nd floor North American reading room of the Institute of Historical Research