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A celebration of Glen Jacques’s contribution to the IHR

A celebration of Glen Jacques’s contribution to the IHR

Many people who have worked at or visited Senate House have fond memories of Glen Jacques, who worked at IHR reception from 2005 until 2021. Sadly Glen died on 21 April 2022."To those who visited the Institute, Glen was a guide, host, source of knowledge and, again, a...

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The Gough Map Project: A Tale of Two Maps

The Gough Map Project: A Tale of Two Maps

By William D. Shannon The Gough Map Project has reached that ‘interesting’ stage where we are moving from either sitting on the fence and making no decisions, or making lots, but then rejecting them all.  It is now time to reach some firm conclusions, and start...

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Bringing the VCH Past to Wikipedia Present

Bringing the VCH Past to Wikipedia Present

  In this blog, VCH General Editor, Adam Chapman and IHR Collections Librarian, Michael Townsend, introduce the VCH Archive and how it is being used to broaden other projects (including Wikipedia). As you might imagine, like any 123-year-old organisation, The...

VCH Outstanding Contribution Awards 2022

VCH Outstanding Contribution Awards 2022

On 12 October, 2022, we were delighted to make our inaugural round of VCH Outstanding Contribution Awards, nominated by the VCH community. They’re a chance for us to thank colleagues for their exceptional work on this national local history project, and to share...

Supporting Early-Career Historians: The Victoria County History

Supporting Early-Career Historians: The Victoria County History

This post was written by Adam Chapman, the General Editor of the Victoria County History, and Lecturer in Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research.[Working for the VCH] sparked my long-forgotten childhood curiosity around the history of place, what...

New from the Victoria County History: Launching Tamworth

New from the Victoria County History: Launching Tamworth

The Victoria County History (VCH) is well known for its detailed studies of individual localities, which assemble (in the words of one recent reviewer) 'countless tiny parts to build a much larger whole'. The 'Big Red Books' describing the histories of places large...

Research & Resources News

Meet Ewan Lawry, new BBIH section editor for Britain 1914-1960

Meet Ewan Lawry, new BBIH section editor for Britain 1914-1960

When I first saw the advertisement for the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Section Editors, I am ashamed to say that I had not heard of this vital resource. After a Google search and having checked my university library's website, I quickly realised...

Meet Dr Giacomo Savani, new BBIH section editor for Roman Britain

Meet Dr Giacomo Savani, new BBIH section editor for Roman Britain

In this blog post, we meet Dr Giacomo Savani, an expert in Roman baths and ancient senses, recently appointed as the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) section editor for Roman Britain.  My name is Dr Giacomo Savani, and I’m the new editor for the...