The Institute of Historical Research in 2020

Dec 22, 2020

  In a busy, difficult, challenging and transformatory year for us all, here’s a look back at selected activities during 2020 from the IHR. Throughout the year, and especially since March, we’ve sought to support historians of all kinds as best we can. In...

PhD –> BHO –> BL –> PhD: linking British History Online’s thesis data to the British Library

Dec 7, 2020

By Jonathan Blaney In this post, Jonathan Blaney—editor of British History Online—explains the latest stage in BHO’s project recording the history of History PhDs in the UK and Ireland. Earlier this year we completed work to digitize, index and publish records of...

Letting the people speak: 2526 early modern petitions on British History Online

Nov 11, 2020

  By Philip Carter   This autumn the IHR’s British History Online completed a project to digitize and publish over 2500 petitions from early modern England. The digitization project forms part of The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England,...

Join us for History Day 2020: Thursday 19th November

Nov 3, 2020

By Kate Wilcox and Argula Rublack In this post, Kate Wilcox and Argula Rublack — co-organisers of History Day 2020 — explain what’s available at this year’s online event. As a celebration of historical collections, History Day combines...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History goes to war

Oct 26, 2020

By Isaac Woolley, University of Leicester The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is a record of over 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...

Environment & History: IHR blog series, February-April 2021

Oct 15, 2020

  By Sarah Johanesen   Over the coming months on the IHR blog, ‘On History’, we’ll be carrying a special series of posts on the theme of ‘Environment & History’. Some of this content will be commissioned from historians prominent in this...