Announcing the 2015-16 IHR Junior Research Fellows!

After a highly competitive process, the Institute is delighted to have appointed eighteen Junior Research Fellows for the 2015-16 year. We received a record number of applications for Junior Fellowships this year, and panels found it challenging to select the...

Update on IHR Fellows – new jobs, grants and publications!

News from our 2014-15 Junior Research Fellows Mellon Fellow Kate Imy recently published an article in Gender and History that was based in part on a conference paper that she gave at an IHR-funded conference during her time as a Fellow at the IHR.  ‘Queering the...

The Materiality of Early Modern Religion

This post has kindly been written for us by Róisín Watson, a Scouloudi Fellow at the IHR. Theological assumptions about the material nature of the divine were central to the debates of the Reformation. The accessories of late medieval Catholic piety, in the form of...

The uses of emptiness

This post has kindly been written for us by Jennifer Keating, RHS Marshall Fellow, Institute of Historical Research How is emptiness made, and what purposes does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining nothingness? And why have a...