Feb 12, 2024
The IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community has been carrying out some exploratory research on the potential of analysing London’s medieval customs accounts digitally. Detailed, or ‘particular’ customs accounts recorded immense detail about the...
Feb 7, 2024
In this blog post Adam Chapman (VCH General Editor) and Ruth Slatter (VCH Architectural Editor) explore the VCH Westmorland archive and reflect on how it helps uncover the hidden (and often forgotten) labour of researchers who contributed to the production of early...
Jan 11, 2024
This blog post was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR. One of the most striking trends within recent historical research has been the ascendancy of the history of emotion, encouraged in no small part by the critical mass generated by specialist...
Jun 19, 2023
What’s new in BBIH? The June 2023 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds 2524 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and edited collections covering all areas of British and Irish history, from 55...
Jun 13, 2023
This blog post was written by Neil Stewart, Head of IHR Library & Digital. I started as Head of IHR Library & Digital in February 2023, having moved up the road from LSE Library. I spent nearly ten years at LSE in two stints, doing things with digital...
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