Sep 14, 2023
This blog post was written by Justin Colson, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Digital History in the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. The IHR’s second annual summer school ran for the full week of 10 to 14 July 2023. Participants came...
Sep 11, 2023
North Sea Networks: English and German Merchants in London’s Customs Accounts 1380-1560 The IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community is developing a new area of research on London’s medieval customs accounts. London’s particular (detailed) customs...
Aug 23, 2023
This blog post was written by Justin Colson, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Digital History in the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community (CHPPC). Some decisions can have momentous tangible impacts upon where we live: our collective memories,...
Apr 5, 2023
The IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community is developing a new area of research on the Dissolution of the Monasteries. We are interested in the material impact of the dissolution at ‘street level’—both at the time during the sixteenth century, and...
Mar 15, 2023
Our new MA History Place and Community, launching autumn 2023, will be taught by our expert academic colleagues, alongside guests from other sectors and professional contexts. What are our own IHR / University of London tutors most looking forward to? We asked them to...
Jan 25, 2023
The IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community recently published the findings of a project on ‘Creative Repurposing and Levelling Up: History, Heritage and Urban Renewal’: both a website featuring case studies, and a policy paper for History &...