Troubling Anniversaries: Online Conference 21-22 October

Jun 7, 2021

What role do anniversaries play in public history? How do we negotiate the commemoration of complex pasts?   In the IHR’s centenary year, an online international conference hosted in partnership between the Institute of Historical Research and the Centre for...

IHR Research Guide: Doing Digital History

May 20, 2021

Read more about the latest volume in the IHR Research Guide series. Doing Digital History: a beginner’s guide to working with text as data, is written by former IHR staff members, who all played a central role in maintaining the IHR’s digital resources,...

IHR #OurCentury: Events Across the UK

May 18, 2021

From Dover to Glasgow, from film screenings and walking tours to art workshops and steel bands, IHR #OurCentury events will celebrate history in its many forms, right across the UK. Following a huge response to our Open Call, we are delighted to announce events...

#VCHFutureHistory: Writing the Places We Want

May 10, 2021

Get involved in #VCHFutureHistoryproject. Your area 50 years from now #VCHFutureHistory: Writing the Places We Want The Victoria County History of England – a national project led from the IHR – is currently a partner in the AHRC-funded project Towns and the Cultural...

Letting the people speak: 2526 early modern petitions on British History Online

Nov 11, 2020

  By Philip Carter   This autumn the IHR’s British History Online completed a project to digitize and publish over 2500 petitions from early modern England. The digitization project forms part of The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England,...

Quietly Essential: Why I insist my students learn how to use the Bibliography of British and Irish History

Mar 17, 2020

By David Hitchcock We spotted early modern historian David Hitchcock speaking about BBIH on Twitter, so we got in touch and asked him how he used it as an academic researcher and teacher. Here’s what he wrote … I doubt anyone has ever composed a hymn in...