Hear From Our 2022/23 Interns

Hear From Our 2022/23 Interns

A number of interns were able to join the Institute this year, thanks to generous support from the IHR Trust. Interns worked alongside IHR Fellows on varying research projects, from transcribing oral history interviews on Windrush, to working on the history of...
Student Testimonials – IHR London Summer School 2023: Secret London

Student Testimonials – IHR London Summer School 2023: Secret London

On 10 – 14 July 2023, we hosted our annual Summer School, this year themed around Secret London. The Summer School offered a unique opportunity to explore London’s stories and historic places, and provided students with access to the brilliant London collections in...
Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives

Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives

This summer Destinie Reynolds completed a three-month internship with the IHR’s History & Policy research team. In this blog, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project “The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and...
Place-based public history in the Highlands and Islands 

Place-based public history in the Highlands and Islands 

Juliette Desportes has recently finished a collaborative internship between the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community and the University of the Highlands and Island’s Centre for History. In this blog post she reflects on the findings of this...
Henry VIII and the IHR Library

Henry VIII and the IHR Library

This blog post was written by Sophia Benko, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant at the IHR Wohl Library. While librarians always live in fear of fire destroying their collections, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, I would like to...