IHR Partnership Seminars: January 2021 launch of first 4 series

Jan 12, 2021

In November 2020 we announced the first 10 seminars series for a new initiative: the IHR online Partnership Seminars. Designed as a space for timely interventions in current and emerging research areas, Partnership Seminars will open up inter-disciplinary and...

Timely interventions and conversations: IHR announces its new Partnership Seminars, 2021-22

Nov 8, 2020

By Catherine Clarke The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce a series of new online Partnership Seminars, in collaboration with historians of all kinds and with institutions across the UK and internationally. Designed as a space for timely...

IHR Partnership Seminars. A New Programme

Jun 18, 2020

As part of its mission to support and facilitate history research and practice across the UK and beyond, the IHR is seeking to develop a new programme of online Partnership Seminars, to launch in January 2021. About the Partnership series The Partnership Seminars will...

History Librarians Workshop, 18 June

Jun 8, 2020

By Matt Shaw     Our libraries aren’t closed, only the buildings are shut. This, as many librarians have been saying, underscores the great extent to which libraries and librarians have long been involved in providing digital resources, remote services...

From Archive to Stage: Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Dec 5, 2019

Alison Skilbeck in Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London (Image: M. Shaw) By Matt ShawA woman waits on stage as the audience enter. She is asleep, wrapped in a fur-trimmed coat. As we settle, the performer awakes to the crackle of radio news. She is disturbed by a dream, by...

Motherhood, Loss and the First World War

Oct 9, 2018

By Matthew Shaw There have been numerous acts of commemoration for the centenary of the First World War. Many of these have undoubtedly chimed in meaningful ways with the public’s imagination or emotion, such as Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of...