Anglo-American Health in History and Asa Briggs: A Celebration

Recently we have uploaded brand new podcasts from two highly successful conferences held this year at the IHR.  The first are a selection of podcasts from our annual Anglo-American conference.  This year the subject was Health in History, which proved both timely...

The Open University History MA

I think it is safe to say that the Open University are considered the leaders in distance learning and online training.  In the UK they have certainly experimented with new tools and technologies long before other universities have even realised that those tools...

IHR Research Seminar Statistics for 2010-2011

With the 2010-2011 IHR seminar schedules at an end and all of the resulting podcasts uploaded online on the www.history.ac.uk website I thought this was a good time to take a moment and look at the statistics from the past year.         Seminar Group Total...

SPOT Newsletter: Health Special (13 July 2011)

Two weeks ago the IHR held its 80th Anglo-American conference.  This topic was Health in History which presented the opportunity for historians to discuss a variety of health related histories and in some cases relate that research to current medical demands and...

IHR Future Plans

Two weeks ago we held a workshop on developing online research training particularly focused on the History profession (see my previous posts).  Of course my post at the IHR asks for me to develop online training courses (not so much the content but the infrastructure...

Live Stream: Digital Research and Editing Environments Workshop

Every now and then a digital research project comes along which attempts to make innovative use of various available technologies and turn them into something coherent and extremely useful for an academic discipline.  I feel that the IHR’s ReScript Project is one such...