The Changing Relevance of Empire

The Changing Relevance of Empire

May 9, 2022

In this article Professor Trevor Burnard, a section editor for Empire to 1783 at the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull, and Director of the Wilberforce Institute reflects on...
IHR resources for research and teaching in Black History

IHR resources for research and teaching in Black History

Oct 1, 2020

      As the UK’s national centre for history, the Institute of Historical Research facilitates and helps communicate the research of historians, of all kinds, across a wide range of subject areas and geographies. This post—published at the start of the...

The Consumption of Culture – A Global History

Aug 22, 2013

Global History seminarFrank Trentmann (Birkbeck)17 March 2010The Consumption of Culture – A Global HistoryThis is a guest post by Bianca Harrisskitt, one of IHR Digital’s interns from the University of Leicester. The growth of consumerism is a topic that seems to be...