Building a Non-State Archive
Activist, social, political, and insurgent movements are non-state actors who lack a state archive. Their networked activities craft a non-state archive, made up of their personal papers, films, and oral histories as well as those of the entities who interacted with...
Emotional History and the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
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
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
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...