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Reviews in History – Mini reviews
The IHR's online book review journal, Reviews in History, would love you to send us a short review on a recent History book, article, chapter, film, exhibit, event, podcast, seminar, etc. that’s really impressed you. How to take part … Once you’ve chosen a piece to...
Call for Section Editor: Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
The Bibliography of British and Irish History seeks to appoint one new Section Editor with research and/or teaching expertise in the following area: Ireland since 1800 Section Editors play a vital role in the Bibliography’s editorial process. They provide specialist...
Reporting back from the 2024 ‘Place-Based Histories: interdisciplinary ECR workshop’
In this blog post Ruth Slatter (IHR) and Kathy Davies (History Lab Plus) reflect on the IHR, Centre for the History of People, Place and Community, and History Lab Plus Place-Based Histories: interdisciplinary ECR workshop held in Sheffield on 5 September 2024. On 5...
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Features & Articles
The Institute of Historical Research in 2020
In our final post for 2020, here’s a look back at some of the Institute’s work in a busy and often difficult year. Throughout 2020, and especially since March, we’ve sought to support historians of all kinds as best we can. In doing so we’ve benefited greatly from the expertise and generosity of IHR staff, fellows, associates, members and supporters.
PhD –> BHO –> BL –> PhD: linking British History Online’s thesis data to the British Library
In summer 2020 we began a project to add records of 30,000 UK PhD theses to British History Online. In this post (the third in a series on this subject), Jonathan Blaney explains a recently completed matching and linking exercise to connect post-1970 theses to their corresponding listings in the British Library’s EThOS catalogue, allowing users to click through from BHO record to BL to an online version of the complete thesis.
Letting the people speak: 2526 early modern petitions on British History Online
The IHR’s ‘British History Online’ has recently completed a project to digitise and publish over 2500 petitions from early modern England. Working with ‘The Power of Petitioning’ project, BHO is now building a web interface, allowing this rich dataset to be explored in new ways – for research and teaching.
Join us for History Day 2020: Thursday 19th November
History Day 2020 takes place online on Thursday 19 November. Here co-organisers Kate Wilcox and Argula Rublack introduce some of the 50 collections and panel sessions on digital, contemporary and regional history that will be available. Booking is now open.
Publications News
Guided Reading – Berkshire’s County Town on the Eve of the Dissolution
Dr Joe Chick invites us to join him in Reading to explore the monastic influences still visible in the Berkshire town. This walk uses the app, ‘A History of English Places’ from the Victoria County History and Aimer Media.
Boats and Buses – The Stories behind Bristol’s Streetscapes
Dr Joe Chick explores Bristol, a city on the boundaries of the English Midlands and the south west, a port that dominated trade with France, Ireland and Wales throughout the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, but whose more recent histories are defined in relation to the legacies of the Atlantic slave trade.
Brews, Spring, Steam – The Georgian Spa Town of Buxton, Derbyshire
By Joe Chick Having explored the histories of Kenilworth, Colchester and Coventry, Dr Joe Chick arms himself with ‘A History of English Places’, the App for mobile devices developed by the Victoria County History (VCH) with Aimer Media. In this blog, he heads to...
The Hidden Survivors of Pre-War Coventry
By Joe Chick Join Joe Chick as he takes to the streets of Coventry with the 'History of England's Places' App to find the city that was there before the bombs. On my first two walks, I explored the towns of Kenilworth (Warws.) and Colchester (Essex). On this walk I...
Research & Resources News
Bibliography of British and Irish History: October 2022 update
This blog post was written by Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal, Editor for the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). What’s new in BBIH? The October 2022 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 3154 new publications. The new content...
Exploring collections for History Day
This blog post was written by Sophie Swann, history undergraduate student at the University of Leicester. Sophie completed a placement at the IHR in August 2022, working on the Bibliography of British and Irish History and in the IHR library. She explored History of...
Call for Section Editors: Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
The Bibliography of British and Irish History seeks to appoint three new Section Editors with research and/or teaching expertise in the following areas: Scotland Britain, 1914-1960 Britain, 1961-present Section Editors play a vital role in the Bibliography’s...
Get ready for the new academic year with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
This post was written by Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal, Editor for the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is an essential tool for the study, research, and teaching of British and Irish history. It is the...