Reflections on last Tuesday's conference at the IHR from Professor Tyacke (pasted)
‘A Farewell to Arms’ 28/10/25 My very best thanks to all the speakers this afternoon, for your splendid contributions, and particularly to Ken Fincham for putting everything together. I am deeply grateful. You will be relieved, however, to learn that I will not be attempting a critique of what has been said! Nevertheless a collective thank you is required to Claire Langhamer, Director of the Institute of Historical Research and her team. The IHR not only provides a venue for our own ‘Religious History’ seminar, along with a galaxy of others, but is also backed up by an invaluable research library. In more recent years, times have not been easy for the Senate House institutes - especially after the breakup of the federal University of London. So we really do need to cherish this century-old and in many ways unique institution - the IHR. As envisaged by its first director, A. F. Pollard, the teaching model was that of the so- called ‘history library seminar’, and some of you may be...