Announcing the project

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...

Historical Research – February 2014 (vol. 87, no. 235)

‘To[o] much eating stifles the child’: fat bodies and reproduction in early modern England. Sarah Toulalan Other contents: Hiding the truth: exegetical discussions of Abraham’s lie from Hugh of St. Victor to Stephen Langton. Emily Corran Dorset in the period of...

Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data

We were delighted to hear on 15 January that the IHR, along with the universities of Amsterdam and Toronto, King’s College London and the History of Parliament Trust, has been awarded funding by the international Digging into Data Challenge 2013. ‘Digging...

History Online update January-March 2014

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)...