Applications open for the IHR’s Pollard Prize, 2020
The IHR Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student, or by an early career researcher within one year of completing a PhD. The Prize is supported by Oxford University Press,...
The IHR’s journal, ‘Historical Research’, moves to Oxford University Press
By Julie Spraggon February 2020 sees publication of the first issue of a new look Historical Research, now published by Oxford University Press. Historical Research is the IHR’s academic journal, published in February, May, August and November of each year. Here, Dr...
‘”Time come”. Britain’s black futures past’ – the 2019 Historical Research lecture now available
The IHR’s annual Historical Research lecture was given, in 2019, by Dr Rob Waters at Queen Mary, University of London. Rob’s lecture — ‘Time come’. Britain’s black futures past — considered the sense of impending change in...
Fake News and Forgery during the English Revolution
by William White In recent years, concerns about the use of disinformation in politics have become increasingly widespread on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘Post-truth’ was the Oxford Dictionaries’ ‘Word of the Year’ for 2016, in the immediate aftermath of the...