Dec 4, 2015
On 21 November, we held two simultaneous Wikipedia edit-a-thons in London and Leicester as part of the Being Human Festival. We did a lot of promotion of these events beforehand so we thought we should tell you how they went. An edit-a-thon is an event where editors...
Sep 8, 2015
When I joined the IHR in early August, I did so with the challenging assignment of helping to further the Institute’s mission to embrace the opportunities of digital content delivery and enable greater access to knowledge, in line with the School’s Statement on Open...
Jul 27, 2012
So who has been the best prime minster of Britain since 1945? A 2010 survey in The Political Quarterly [1] lists the following order:-AttleeThatcherBlairMacmillanWilsonChurchillCallaghanMajorHeathBrownDouglas-HomeEdenBased on a survey of academics, the list echoes a...
Jun 22, 2012
We are very pleased to announce reduced subscription rates for Friends of the Institute of Historical Research and for Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society, representing a very substantial discount on the normal individual subscription rate (and a...
Jun 22, 2011
‘Open Access comes of age’ was the headline in a recent issue of Nature News, the article reporting a recent study published in Public Library of Science One, that found that the number of articles in freely accessible journals is growing at a rate of 20%...
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