Creative historical practice: an eighty-year family journey
Kate Wilcox, Library Services Manager at the IHR, recently completed the IHR’s MA in History, Place and Community, embracing the opportunities offered by the programme to engage in creative approaches. Her final project was awarded the 2025 Phil Batman Family History...
Place-Based Public and Community History
In this blog post, Ruth Slatter (from the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community) and Iain Robertson (from the University of Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History) reflect on the Place-Based Public and Community History Workshop they organised...
From Rivers… to Rebels
IHR London Summer School Here in the IHR, we’re in the thick of preparations for our 2025 IHR London Summer School – this time, on the theme of ‘Rebels’. From medieval uprisings to religious dissent and political subversion, from radicals and visionaries to...
VCH Ghost Story
With the nights drawing in, it’s the season for storytelling. This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to then-General Editor, William Page) and is published here for the first time....