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Open and Free Access Research Materials for Historians: a new IHR guide
To help researchers access free online content, the IHR has created a guide to available research materials. This is a work in progress and we invite you to submit recommendations to make the listing as extensive and useful as possible.
Applications open for the IHR’s Pollard Prize, 2020
For 20 years the IHR’s Pollard Prize has been rewarding talented Early Career Historians and publishing their first articles. Here’s a list of winners, with a call to apply for the 2020 Prize.
British History Online makes all research content free to individual users
We’ve added 200 extra volumes of primary research content to the free access area of British History Online. All 1280 volumes in the BHO collection are now available free for personal users.
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Institute of Historical Research Mission and Strategy, 2020-2025
Professor Jo Fox, Director of the IHR, introduces the IHR’s Mission and Strategy for 2020-2025, launching on 5 February 2020.
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Supporting the historical community: the IHR’s contribution
How will the IHR help support the historical community in the coming weeks? IHR staff are committed to maintaining as many services and resources as possible.
IHR Strategy, 2020-25: 3. The Wohl Library and Archives
The idea of a historical library has been at the heart of the Institute since it was a glint in Professor Albert F Pollard’s no-doubt steely eyes. And since the doors to the Institute were opened in 1921, books, journals, catalogues and space for writing and discussion have been central to the physical space that the IHR inhabited…. So, what is the role of the library (and archives, since we also hold a remakable record of the institute, and indeed the activities, aims, aspirations, and sometimes idiosyncratic desires, of the historical profession more widely) to the IHR’s plans for the next half-decade?
IHR Strategy, 2020-25: 2. The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community
Following the launch of the IHR’s Mission and Strategy, 2020-25, this is the second in our series of focused studies of future work at the IHR. Here, regional and urban history at the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community.
The IHR Strategy, 2020-25: 1. Digital History
Following the launch of the IHR’s Strategy, 2020-25 last week, we begin a series looking at key elements of the Institute’s future. We begin with digital and digital history.
Publications News
Applications open for the IHR’s Pollard Prize, 2020
For 20 years the IHR’s Pollard Prize has been rewarding talented Early Career Historians and publishing their first articles. Here’s a list of winners, with a call to apply for the 2020 Prize.
The IHR’s journal, ‘Historical Research’, moves to Oxford University Press
From February 2020, the IHR’s academic journal moves to Oxford University Press. The journal now has an international editorial board, an ambitious agenda for shaping future historical debates, and a bold new look.
A new look for the Bibliography of British and Irish History
The latest update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History (February 2020) adds two important enhancements: 4500 new records, plus a new user-interface making searching and browsing easier and quicker.
‘Book-ended’: the wonderful history of the Athlone Press
December 2019 sees the launch of the University of London Press, the new home for IHR publishing. Here Laura De’Ath looks back at the University’s publishing history with her new exhibition on the Athlone Press years (1948-78).
Research & Resources News
British History Online makes all research content free to individual users
We’ve added 200 extra volumes of primary research content to the free access area of British History Online. All 1280 volumes in the BHO collection are now available free for personal users.
Quietly Essential: Why I insist my students learn how to use the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Early modern historian, David Hitchcock, explains how he uses the Bibliography of British History in the classroom – for teaching and student research.
The IHR Strategy, 2020-25: 1. Digital History
Following the launch of the IHR’s Strategy, 2020-25 last week, we begin a series looking at key elements of the Institute’s future. We begin with digital and digital history.
Exploring publishing trends in the Bibliography of British and Irish History
BBIH editors spend a great deal of time checking new publications across a wide range of historical subject areas. This gives them an excellent insight to shifts in publishing and the emergence of new trends in historical research. Working at the Bibliography of...