Postgraduate Research Training Courses – Spring and Summer 2014

Each year the IHR runs a wide-ranging and extensive programme of training in skills for historical researchers from universities throughout the UK. Using a range of teaching approaches (workshops, seminars, lectures, hands-on practicals and visits), important and...

Announcing ‘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 into Linked...

New reviews: Heresy, revisionism, modernity and infanticide

A real treat for medievalists this week, as eminent academics Pete Biller and R. I. Moore engage in a full and frank discussion of the latter’s The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe – a must-read! (no. 1546, with response here). Next up, we...

Announcing BUDDAH – Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities

We are delighted to have been awarded AHRC funding for a new research project, ‘Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities’. BUDDAH aims to transform the way in which researchers in the arts and humanities engage with the archived web, focusing on data...