‘What’s in a name?’: cataloguing in a decolonising library
By Michael Townsend In February of this year we outlined in Diversity and inequality in the library the measures the IHR library is taking to make its spaces and resources open to all. What follows is a further look into one specific aspect of this general objective:...
The IHR Conference Series: an introduction & call for proposals
By Julie Spraggon The IHR Conference Series is a central part of the Institute’s publishing programme. The series comprises edited collections of essays, many of which originated as themed papers presented at a conference. The 15 volumes in the Conference...
The monarchy, mythmaking, and VE Day
By Ed Owens On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Ed Owens — author of The Family Firm. Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 — reflects on the royal family’s careful cultivation of a media image in wartime, culminating with the events of...
IHR / Museum of Youth Culture ‘Setting the Record Straight’ Research Internships
By Catherine Clarke The IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community is offering four paid Research Internships, in partnership with the Museum of Youth Culture, as part of the project ‘Setting the Record Straight’, funded by the National Lottery...