We will be back…

Elaine Walters, IHR Administrator discusses her thoughts and feelings about the IHR temporary relocation and its eventual return to the North Block of Senate House   Although we had actually been planning the IHR move for months, I don’t think I actually ever thought...

History SPOT: A guide to designing Databases for Historical Research

With the launch of History SPOT the Institute of Historical Research have also launched a brand new handbook written by our own Dr Mark Merry on the subject of designing databases for historical research. Mark is the primary tutor on our various Databases course and...

SPOT Newsletter: 26 September 2011

 British History in the Long 18th Century8 June 2011Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University)A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia OpieAmelia Opie was a prominent English author who wrote novels, short stories, and poems between 1790 and 1834. ...

SPOT Newsletter: 22 September 2011

Franco-British History19 May 2011Catherine Hall (UCL)Troubled Memories: histories of the British slave trade and slavery Catherine Hall asks and answers a lot of questions about the construction and reconstruction of histories and memory of the British slave trade. ...