


Open and Free Access Research Materials for Historians: a new IHR guide
By Professor Jo Fox, Director, IHR In this post Jo Fox announces the creation of the IHR’s new guide to Open and Free Access Materials for Research. The new IHR guide provides links to freely accessible research materials and resources, and allows you to...
Equal pay for equal work: Jill Craigie’s To Be a Woman
By Jo Fox Equal pay has long been at the heart of feminist activism. The struggle for enfranchisement was but one component of the suffragette’s campaign – equal pay was another, with Millicent Fawcett arguing for ‘equal pay for equal work’ in the Economic Journal in...
IHR announces new Director
We are delighted to announce that Professor Jo Fox, Head of Department and Professor of Modern British and European History in the Department of History at Durham University, has been appointed Director of the Institute with effect from 1 January 2018. ‘It is an...
By the seaside – event and exhibit at the IHR
The IHR enjoys an associate fellowship connection with Historic England and this year we invited some of the Fellows from Historic England to deliver a lecture. The event was part of the Being Human Festival and a coincident exhibit was arranged in the IHR’s...