In 1996, the Institute of Historical Research launched an online reviews journal, Reviews in History. The impetus for the journal came from a dissatisfaction with scholarly publishing in general, and with the publication of reviews in particular (is any of that...
In January we launched a photo competition on Flickr to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of British History Online. Because we began mid-way through January, we decided to judge all of January and February’s submissions together (there were nearly 200) and pick...
Kathleen McIlvenna, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (first published on The History Student blog) Last Friday I went to the ‘Finch Report, Open Access and the Historical Community’ event organised by the Institute of Historical Research and...
Derek Sayer, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lancaster and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta (first posted on the Coasts of Bohemia blog) On March 6 Research Councils UK (RCUK), the umbrella organization representing all the major UK...
On Friday 1 March 2013, the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society organised a free colloquium on the subject of ‘The Finch Report, open access and the historical community’. The event was attended by more than 120 people, who...
Our Permissions Controller for the digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, Rachael Lazenby, has written an introductory guide to copyright for images, drawing on her experience on this project and on other work that she has done. This...
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