Oct 31, 2024
With the nights drawing in, it’s the season for storytelling. This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to then-General Editor, William Page) and is published here for the first time....
Oct 23, 2024
In this second of two blog posts, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the challenges and potentials of digitising historical sources. As discussed in the earlier of these posts, digitising a VCH Big Red Book is far from straightforward...
Oct 16, 2024
In this blog post, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the process of digitising VCH volumes for British History Online. My time as an intern at the IHR, working on one small part of the process of preparing Victoria County...
Oct 14, 2024
The IHR’s online book review journal, Reviews in History, would love you to send us a short review on a recent History book, article, chapter, film, exhibit, event, podcast, seminar, etc. that’s really impressed you. How to take part … Once you’ve chosen a piece...
Oct 1, 2024
This blog post was written by Tim Hitchcock and Penelope J. Corfield, authors of Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide. In it they respond to questions from IHR students and Early Career Fellows. Recently, we published our ‘informal guide’ to Becoming a...
Jun 10, 2024
In this blog post by Matthew Gerth we hear from the author of a recent University of London Press publication, Anti-communism in Britain during the Early Cold War, published as part of the New Historical Perspectives series, in association with the IHR and the Royal...
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