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Researching the histories of race and ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History
In this blog post, Gaverne Bennett (PhD student at the University of Leicester) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (BBIH editor) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of race and ethnicity. What is BBIH?...
Black History Month 2025 – Recent Acquisitions in the IHR Library
Over the past year, the IHR Library has acquired a number of new titles on various aspects of Black history. In this blog, we highlight seven of these new titles which reflect the diversification of our collections across Black history, from Caribbean museology to...
From Heritage Trail to History Book: The Story of Langley Burrell
In this blogpost, Dr Louise Ryland-Epton describes the gestation of her Victoria County History (VCH), Partnership Publication, which illuminates how VCH research engages with local communities and, in partnership, can expand our mutual understanding of past places....
Spotlight
Women’s Suffrage at Home and Away
By Sara Charles Although the history of the women’s suffrage movement (and particularly the Suffragettes) often focusses on London, there was huge amount of activity throughout the U.K. and further afield in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth...
Features & Articles
#VCHFutureHistory: Writing the Places We Want
#VCHFutureHistory Project. What is your vision for your area, 50years from now?
A mid-series reflection: The archives of Global History in a time of international immobility
By:The Archives of Global History in a time of international immobility- IHR Partnership Seminar:Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi (@honarmand_sara) and Ismay Milford (@IsmayMilford), with the input of co-convenors Bengü Aydın Dikmen, Nilina Deb Lal, Merve Fejzula, and Mohamed...
Conflict and climate change in the Arctic: what the seventeenth century suggests about the future
By Dagomar Degroot Environment & History, essay no. 13 In the final article of our ‘Environment & History’ series, Professor Dagomar Degroot looks to early modern climate change to ask whether arctic warming necessarily results in violent...
Thinking beyond the “vanishing coasts”
By:Coastal Connections- IHR Partnership Seminar: Young Rae Choi[1], Michael O´Rourke[2], Katie Ritson[3], Hsinya Huang[4] and Joana Gaspar de Freitas[5] Coasts are highly dynamic environments. Their constant mutability is what defines them best. However, they seem to...
Publications News
IHR Summer Reading Series
Volume 4 During the month of August we will be sharing summer reading lists, experiences, and suggestions from the IHR community. If you'd like to share your own, please Tweet (X) us @ihr_history. Daniel Snowman has been a Senior Research Fellow at the IHR since...
The IHR Summer Reading Series
Volume 3 During the month of August we will be sharing summer reading lists, experiences, and suggestions from the IHR community. If you'd like to share your own, please Tweet (X) us @ihr_history. In this blog, we hear from IHR Associate Fellow Michelle Johansen. My...
IHR Summer Reading Series
Volume 2 During the month of August we are sharing summer reading lists, experiences, and suggestions from the IHR community. If you’d like to share your own, please Tweet (X) us @ihr_history. Eve Hayes De Kalaf The three books I am currently reading are: Paul,...
The IHR Summer Reading Series
Volume 1 During the month of August we will be sharing summer reading lists, experiences, and suggestions from the IHR community. If you'd like to share your own, please Tweet (X) us @ihr_history. We launch the series with IHR Senior Fellow Virginia Crompton's summer...
Research & Resources News
Hear From Our 2022/23 Interns
A number of interns were able to join the Institute this year, thanks to generous support from the IHR Trust. Interns worked alongside IHR Fellows on varying research projects, from transcribing oral history interviews on Windrush, to working on the history of...
Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives
This summer Destinie Reynolds completed a three-month internship with the IHR's History & Policy research team. In this blog, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project “The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and...
Gender and Bathing in Antiquity
This blog was written by Dr Giacomo Savani, an expert in Roman baths and ancient senses, and a recent intern looking at gender histories in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). A version of this text was posted on the Women’s History Network blog in...
Bibliography of British and Irish History: October 2023 update
What’s new in BBIH? The October 2023 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 4,091 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters, and edited collections covering all areas of British and Irish history,...