2015 seems to be a year marking many notable anniversaries: 800 years since Magna Carta; 750 years since the first elected Parliament representing all of England; 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo; 50 years since the death of Sir Winston Churchill; and the First...
Registration is now open for this major conference which will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved in, the 1914-18 conflict. Organised by IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History...
In a major collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, the IHR is taking Fashion as the theme for its annual conference in summer 2015. Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and...
This post was written for us by Karen Attar from Senate House Library Special Collections. The conference “The Great War at Home” supplied an excellent opportunity for Senate House Library to provide a small complementary display. The only problem was how best to use...
Kate Tiller, founding fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford and chair of the British Association for Local History As the centenaries of 1914–18 finally come upon us, the challenges facing historians to research and interpret the impact of the First World...
Preparations for the IHR’s 83rd annual Anglo-American Conference are in full swing now, with the conference just one week away. This year’s Anglo-American Conference, The Great War at Home, will explore the impact of the First World War on home fronts across the...
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