IHR resources for research and teaching in Black History

Oct 1, 2020

      As the UK’s national centre for history, the Institute of Historical Research facilitates and helps communicate the research of historians, of all kinds, across a wide range of subject areas and geographies. This post—published at the start of the...

The Hidden Shelter: local and national histories of the Second World War

Sep 11, 2020

By Henry Irving This guest post comes from Henry Irving, a member of the advisory board for the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. Here Henry outlines his current research on the home front in Leeds and his forthcoming 3D tour of one of the...

Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism: new collection from the IHR and Royal Historical Society

Aug 19, 2020

By John Sabapathy In July 2020, University of London press published Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism, the latest title in New Historical Perspectives, an Open Access series for early career historians from the IHR and the Royal Historical...

Teaching British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire: a resource for teachers and learners

Aug 4, 2020

By Hannah Elias and Sundeep Lidher In August 2020 the IHR and Runnymede Trust launch Teaching British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire: a resource for teachers and learners. The crowdsourced online guide, created by the IHR’s Library team, brings together...

What’s trending in new historical writing? Four perspectives from the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Jul 28, 2020

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is a record of nearly 620,000 books, articles and essays relating to the British and Irish past, worldwide. The Bibliography is updated three times a year, with the latest update (June 2020) adding records of 4288...

BHO theses completed: making the data available

Jul 21, 2020

By Jonathan Blaney In June we added to British History Online records of 22,500 History PhDs awarded in UK and Irish universities between 1970 and 2014. This set of 22,000 theses was added to BHO’s existing series of 7500 records of research degrees awarded between...