The Cambridge Prehistory of Partitions: Learning through a Cambridge Walk and Podcast

Sep 18, 2026

Cambridge is a city of quiet quadrangles and soft light, designed for the unhurried pursuit of knowledge, polite debates over High Table, the preservation of tradition, and the education of the country’s youthful elites. Yet between the cobblestones of Trinity Street...

IHR Podcast: A Historian’s Life

Jun 23, 2025

This blog is written by IHR Fellow Lisa Pine, host of A Historian’s Life. Podcasts are ubiquitous—so many hosts, fascinating guests and stories, on topics ranging from sports to astronomy, and everything in between. And there are many excellent history podcasts,...

IHR Centenary Global Birthday Event: Reflections on History Past, Present and Future

Jul 15, 2021

On Thursday 8 July 2021, the IHR celebrated its 100th birthday, with a day of online celebrations taking us from Australia and South East Asia, to Africa and the Middle East, to Europe and North America. What did we learn about history today and in the future? The...

Welcome to PORT

Jan 15, 2015

This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Matthew Phillpott, SAS-Space Manager and SAS Digital Project Officer. For those of you who have been using the Institute of Historical Research’s online research training platform, History SPOT you will have noticed a...

IHR History Spot migration

Mar 3, 2014

History Spot has been a much-used and well-liked tool in the two-and-a-half years of its existence and has provided access to training materials and hundreds of podcasts and seminars to thousands of researchers throughout the UK and the world. Now, though, it has...

Pick’s posters and progress: a design strategy for the Underground

Feb 26, 2014

Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-201317 January 2013Oliver GreenPick’s posters and progress: a design strategy for the Underground  Abstract: In the early decades of the 20th century the London Underground was transformed from being simply a...