Meet Our New BBIH Section Editor for 19th Century British History

Oct 31, 2022

This blog post was written by Ed Lyon, BBIH Section Editor My name’s Ed Lyon, and I’m a PhD candidate at Birkbeck and the new Section Editor for 19th century British history. My research focuses on Irish nationalists in Victorian London, from the foundation of the...

Bibliography of British and Irish History: October 2022 update 

Oct 24, 2022

This blog post was written by Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal, Editor for the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). What’s new in BBIH?   The October 2022 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 3154 new publications. The new content...

Exploring collections for History Day

Oct 5, 2022

This blog post was written by Sophie Swann, history undergraduate student at the University of Leicester. Sophie completed a placement at the IHR in August 2022, working on the Bibliography of British and Irish History and in the IHR library. She explored History of...

IHR London Summer School 2022: Renewal

Sep 22, 2022

By Catherine Clarke, Director of the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community at the Institute of Historical Research The summer has flown by and now, as we continue our planning for the IHR London Summer School 2023, is a great opportunity to look back...

Researching in the IHR library: Nineteenth Century Women and the Legal system

Sep 8, 2022

This post was written by Millicent (Millie) Shepherd, undergraduate history student at the University of Leicester. She completed a placement at the IHR in July 2022, working on the Bibliography of British and Irish History and in the IHR library. For as long as I can...

Should we concrete over ‘dark tourist’ monuments?

Aug 10, 2022

By Daniel Snowman, Senior Fellow, IHR This is the final in a series of three blog pieces by IHR Senior Fellow, Daniel Snowman, raising provocative issues about how we regard and memorialise what we think of as ‘history’. Read the first and second blogs...