Emotional History and the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) 

Jan 11, 2024

This blog post was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR. One of the most striking trends within recent historical research has been the ascendancy of the history of emotion, encouraged in no small part by the critical mass generated by specialist...

Hear From Our 2022/23 Interns

Dec 13, 2023

A number of interns were able to join the Institute this year, thanks to generous support from the IHR Trust. Interns worked alongside IHR Fellows on varying research projects, from transcribing oral history interviews on Windrush, to working on the history of...

Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives

Dec 6, 2023

This summer Destinie Reynolds completed a three-month internship with the IHR’s History & Policy research team. In this blog, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project “The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and...

Gender and Bathing in Antiquity 

Nov 13, 2023

This blog was written by Dr Giacomo Savani, an expert in Roman baths and ancient senses, and a recent intern looking at gender histories in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). A version of this text was posted on the Women’s History Network blog in...

Bibliography of British and Irish History: October 2023 update 

Nov 9, 2023

What’s new in BBIH?   The October 2023 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 4,091 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters, and edited collections covering all areas of British and Irish history,...

Researching Black British History, Race, and Ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Oct 22, 2023

Gaverne Bennett, PhD history research student at Leicester University, has recently completed a three month internship at the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) looking at Race and Ethnicity. He also created the Guardian newspapers bestselling black...