A little while back I attended a course on editing Wikipedia. While not an avid user of the online resource, I do find it useful. It’s excellent for popular culture (mainly of the quiz questions variety); where else can you quickly discover what a Vorlon is? Or what...
On 21 January 2014, Suzy Espley, Tom Storrar and Simon Demissie from The National Archives gave a fascinating presentation about the UK Government Web Archive at the IHR’s ‘Archives and Society’ seminar. The UKGWA is very different from the dataset...
The prospect of a new MA course in garden history, alongside the IHR’s short course in Garden history and the History of Gardens and Landscapes seminar prompted us to write a guide to garden history resources in the IHR library. Although not a core specialism of the...
We are delighted to have been awarded AHRC funding for a new research project, ‘Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities’. The project aims to transform the way in which researchers in the arts and humanities engage with the archived web, focusing on...
The IHR library has a great set of London-based collections, relating to all aspects of the capital’s rich and varied history. We’re drawing on these for a series of ‘Around London’ posts, starting with the infamous tale of St Martin’s Round House. Although now...
This post has been kindly written for us by Dr. David Parrish, a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. After three years of research and writing, I submitted a PhD thesis and passed my viva in September 2013 (probably the most nerve-racking...
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