Ursula Bloom’s First World War

In a previous post I mentioned an article which analysed the newspaper reporting of the beginning of the First World War. By happenstance I had begun to read the autobiography of the prolific writer Ursula Bloom – Youth at the Gate – which documents the beginning of...

Call for Papers: London and the First World War (20-21 March 2015)

As part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, the Centre for Metropolitan History in partnership with IWM (Imperial War Museums) is organising a major conference that will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by,...

Managing your research: from creating to sharing

To be effective researchers historians must learn skills to enable them to manage their research processes so that everything they do is recoverable, usable, and useful. This workshop is intended to help postgraduate students and early career researchers to think more...

Friends Film Evening: The Duchess (2008)

The Friends of the IHR will be hosting another of its popular film evenings on 17 February at 5:30.  Professor Penelope Corfield, Professor Emeritus, Royal Holloway, University of London will be presenting the film. Georgina Cavendish, The Duchess of Devonshire, was...

Upcoming events at the IHR

Here in the IHR events office, we’re gearing up for a long evening. The IHR is hosting two memorial lectures today: The Holocaust Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Pears Institute at Birkbeck, and the Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, which is organised by the Society...

Workshop: Developing online research training and course delivery

Date: 21 June 2011 Location: Wolfson Room, IHR Time: 1pm-4pm In a world where research projects are increasingly based around digital resources and technologies, historians can no longer ignore the potential that Online Research Training can provide for Higher...