Reflections and Resolutions of an Independent Scholar

This post by Kimm Curran originally appeared on the History Lab Plus blog (https://historylabplus.wordpress.com/). ‘Tis the season for reflecting on where our path has led us and which map to choose for the future. For many of us this allows us to think about where we...

British History Online: final photo competition

Over the past year we have been running a monthly British History Online photo competition. All those photos added to our Flickr group in the previous month have been entered into a pool and scrutinised by my judicious and sharp-eyed colleagues in IHR Digital. I then...

IHR History Spot migration

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...

Networking and academia

This post has been kindly written for us by George Gilbert, currently one of the Scouloudi Fellows at the Institute of Historical Research. For the beginner, the idea of networking can be a confusing one, and historically hasn’t always been helped by attitudes found...

New reviews: Scotland, flappers, slave trade and queens

With each week seeing a new series of claims and counter-claims about the viability of an independent Scotland, now seems an appropriate time for us to review a new book by Michael Fry, a self-declared former Scottish Conservative now supporting the nationalist...

Bibliography of British and Irish History updated

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was published on 26 February. Over 4,000 new records have been added; over half of these are for publications of 2013-14.  Some 700 new records relate to Irish history while 186 deal with the history of...