The IHR hosts several competitions for one-year and six-month Junior Research Fellowships, intended as writing-up awards for doctoral students or as first postdoctoral positions for recent graduates, as well as several smaller prizes and bursaries in a variety of...
The Friends of the IHR will be hosting another of its popular film evenings on 17 February at 5:30. Professor Penelope Corfield, Professor Emeritus, Royal Holloway, University of London will be presenting the film. Georgina Cavendish, The Duchess of Devonshire, was...
Anyone wanting to keep up to date with new acquisitions in the IHR Library can do so in several ways. Firstly there are the New Books shelves, located next to room 321, where all new works start off regardless of their eventual location. For more of a snapshot you can...
The Institute of Historical Research’s bibliographic update for January to March 2014 is now online. The update can be found at https://www.history.ac.uk/history-online/books/update/all and (for journal articles)...
This month’s long-awaited premiere of Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbinder and Benedict Cumberbatch, has spurred us on to look for sources for this topic in the library. Not surprisingly, we found a vast selection. First...
Our intern Paris Jones has kindly written the following post for us: Since my sophomore year as an undergraduate, the subject of witchcraft had always fascinated me. My final undergraduate research paper was on witchcraft in the Elizabethan Era. I decided to continue...
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