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Conflict and climate change in the Arctic: what the seventeenth century suggests about the future
By Dagomar Degroot Environment & History, essay no. 13 In the final article of our ‘Environment & History’ series, Professor Dagomar Degroot looks to early modern climate change to ask whether arctic warming necessarily results in violent...
Features & Articles
A History of England in 25 Poems
This new book from IHR Professor Catherine Clarke explores the history of England in new ways—drawing on her work here in the Institute. It’s been quite a journey. From hours in the archive to writing and revisions, from my desk at work and home to sitting behind the...
Histor(AI): Doing History in an AI World
This blog post presents an overview of the opportunities and challenges artificial intelligence (AI) presents for those engaging with history in a novel technological age. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, and the historical profession...
Precarity and Independence
This blog post was written by Hélène Maloigne, archaeologist, historian, cultural heritage professional, and IHR Fellow. As a historian, you meet a lot of people. Or at least, that is how I like to think about my research on the history of archaeology in the Middle...
IHR Podcast: A Historian’s Life
This blog is written by IHR Fellow Lisa Pine, host of A Historian’s Life. Podcasts are ubiquitous—so many hosts, fascinating guests and stories, on topics ranging from sports to astronomy, and everything in between. And there are many excellent history podcasts,...
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Domesday at the IHR
In this blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about a new publication Domesday Book is justly famous as England’s oldest public record, the source of a teeming mass of information about every aspect of English government and society around the time of the Norman...
From Heritage Trail to History Book: The Story of Langley Burrell
In this blogpost, Dr Louise Ryland-Epton describes the gestation of her Victoria County History (VCH), Partnership Publication, which illuminates how VCH research engages with local communities and, in partnership, can expand our mutual understanding of past places....
‘The holiday resort of the people’: Exploring the History of the ‘Community at the Crossroads’
In this blogpost, Dr Pamela Fisher, County Editor of the Victoria County History (VCH) project in Leicestershire, describes a project on a tiny midland settlement and shows how VCH research engages with local communities and, in partnership, can expand their,...
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Researching the histories of race and ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History
In this blog post, Gaverne Bennett (PhD student at the University of Leicester) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (BBIH editor) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of race and ethnicity. What is BBIH?...
Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update
What’s new in BBIH? The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and edited collections covering all areas of British and Irish history,...
Medical History and the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Rachel Peacock recently completed a summer internship at the IHR, where she focused on medical history and health in the Bibliography of British and Irish History. In this blog, she explores Victorian understandings of mental illness through the example of intruders...