In March 2020 the Gerald Aylmer Seminar was one of the last in-person events to take place at The National Archives before the first Covid-19 lockdown. In September 2021, 18 months on from the 2020 event, the Seminar took place in an experimental online format. The...
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides records of over 627,600 publications (books, journal articles, and chapters in edited collections) relating to British and Irish history. The Bibliography defines British and Irish history very broadly, and...
This blog post was written by Kate Wilcox (Institute of Historical Research) and Argula Rublack (Senate House Library) co-organisers of History Day. History Day is a free, one-day event which brings people interested in history together with history collections from...
On the 8 September a one-day interdisciplinary online conference will critically examine the films and ideas of the controversial documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis. Hosted in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Institute for Screen Industries...
Kate Wilcox from the IHR’s Wohl Library and Argula Rublack from Senate House Library reflect on the recent collaboration with The National Archives, RLUK, and Jisc to bring History Day to the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference....
On Thursday 8 July 2021, the IHR celebrated its 100th birthday, with a day of online celebrations taking us from Australia and South East Asia, to Africa and the Middle East, to Europe and North America. What did we learn about history today and in the future? The...
