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...

IHR Friends Film Evening – Henry V (1944)

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...

London and the First World War Conference – 20-21 March 2015

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...

“The Great War at Home”: a Senate House Library Perspective

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...

Local history and the First World War

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...