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Provenance of the Wohl Library Collections
On July 8, 2021, we celebrated the centenary of the Institute of Historical Research. The date marked one hundred years of lectures, seminars, conferences, publications and projects at the IHR. It also marked one hundred years of the library collections. Read more about provenance in the library collections in this blog post from Alexander Kither.
IHR Centenary Global Birthday Event: Reflections on History Past, Present and Future
On Thursday 8 July 2021, the IHR celebrated its 100th birthday, with a day of online celebrations taking us from Australia and South East Asia, to Africa and the Middle East, to Europe and North America. What did we learn about history today and in the future? The...
Christmas Under Cromwell: The Hidden Religious Festivals of Interregnum Britain
In this post Dr Rosalind Johnson introduces her chapter in Church and People in Interregnum Britain, published by University of London Press on 23 June. Edited by Dr Fiona McCall, the book provides a comprehensive account of every-day life, society and religion in the...
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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...
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IHR Centenary Global Birthday Event: Reflections on History Past, Present and Future
On Thursday 8 July 2021, the IHR celebrated its 100th birthday, with a day of online celebrations taking us from Australia and South East Asia, to Africa and the Middle East, to Europe and North America. What did we learn about history today and in the future? The...
Christmas Under Cromwell: The Hidden Religious Festivals of Interregnum Britain
In this post Dr Rosalind Johnson introduces her chapter in Church and People in Interregnum Britain, published by University of London Press on 23 June. Edited by Dr Fiona McCall, the book provides a comprehensive account of every-day life, society and religion in the...
The IHR’s Reviews in History
The IHR’s Reviews in History publishes weekly commentaries on new books. Our reviews are longer than those in many academic journals and focus on titles published in the last year. ‘Reviews’ will be taking a break during July and the first half of August, but look...
#VCHFutureHistory: Writing the Places We Want
#VCHFutureHistory Project. What is your vision for your area, 50years from now?
Publications News
Christmas Under Cromwell: The Hidden Religious Festivals of Interregnum Britain
In this post Dr Rosalind Johnson introduces her chapter in Church and People in Interregnum Britain, published by University of London Press on 23 June. Edited by Dr Fiona McCall, the book provides a comprehensive account of every-day life, society and religion in the...
IHR Paid Internships: Summer 2021
Opportunities for research experience and career development, thanks to the generosity of donors to the IHR. We are delighted to announce three paid internships for early-career historians, to be held between late July and the end of September 2021. Apply by...
The IHR’s Reviews in History
The IHR’s Reviews in History publishes weekly commentaries on new books. Our reviews are longer than those in many academic journals and focus on titles published in the last year. ‘Reviews’ will be taking a break during July and the first half of August, but look...
Henry Knighton, the Commons and the Crisis of Governance in the 1380s
Gwilym Dodd's latest article 'Henry Knighton, the Commons and the Crisis of Governance in the 1380s' is published in the latest issue of Historical Research. Here he explains more about this subject, and the problems with analysing historical writing. ‘To our...
Research & Resources News
IHR Paid Internships: Summer 2021
Opportunities for research experience and career development, thanks to the generosity of donors to the IHR. We are delighted to announce three paid internships for early-career historians, to be held between late July and the end of September 2021. Apply by...
The IHR’s Reviews in History
The IHR’s Reviews in History publishes weekly commentaries on new books. Our reviews are longer than those in many academic journals and focus on titles published in the last year. ‘Reviews’ will be taking a break during July and the first half of August, but look...
Troubling Anniversaries: Online Conference 21-22 October
What role do anniversaries play in public history? How do we negotiate the commemoration of complex pasts?
In the IHR’s centenary year, an online international conference hosted in partnership between the Institute of Historical Research and the Centre for Public History, Queen’s University Belfast will explore the uses of anniversaries in historical research and public interpretation, the politics of commemoration, the wide variety of tools and approaches for public engagement, and the challenges of dealing with contested pasts.
IHR Research Guide: Doing Digital History
The latest volume of IHR Research Guides is, ‘Doing Digital History: a beginner’s guide to working with text as data’. Primarily aimed at postgraduates, or final-year undergraduates, but many other readers should find them useful too.