History Now & Then

A series of six new public seminars on current issues raised by the study of the past. Wolfson Room I, IHR Seminar: 6-7.30pm Refreshments: 7.30-8.30pm Welcome: Lawrence Goldman Chair: Daniel Snowman 14 October 2015: History, history, everywhere… The apparent...

Announcing the 2015-16 IHR Junior Research Fellows!

After a highly competitive process, the Institute is delighted to have appointed eighteen Junior Research Fellows for the 2015-16 year. We received a record number of applications for Junior Fellowships this year, and panels found it challenging to select the...

PASSAGE: A symposium on writing about walking in London, 1500-1900

The Dr Seng Tee Lee Centre, Senate House Library October 27th 2015 The University of London’s Senate House Library will be hosting a symposium in connection with a new project to begin later this year being jointly run by the Centre for Metropolitan History at the...

Reviews in History fashion special

Today is the first day of Fashion, the 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, and as usual, this means we’ll be publishing a series of fashion-related reviews over the next few weeks. We start this week with a book by one of the session chairs from the...

Local History Summer School

This post has kindly been written for us by Professor Richard Hoyle, Director and General Editor of the Victoria County History. One thing which is pretty certain is that everyone who attends this year’s local history conference sponsored by the IHR and VCH lived...