May 13, 2021
This post was written by Alex Kither, Graduate Library Assistant Trainee at the Institute of Historical Research Library. The new Modern History Collections guide covers a broad range of historical sources from the late eighteenth century through to the present day....
Aug 12, 2019
By Catherine Delano-Smith Dr Catherine Delano-Smith, Senior Research Fellow at the IHR, is leading a new project with Nick Millea, map curator at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, entitled ‘Understanding the medieval Gough Map through physics, chemistry and...
Oct 26, 2012
Ireland has a dramatic and unusual population history, with overall population declining dramatically from 8.2 million to 6.5 million between 1841 and 1851 and then declining gradually and almost continuously to 4.5 million in 1961. The quote is from an article [1] in...
Jan 19, 2012
Today we have two abstracts from the Franco-British History seminar held at the Sorbonne, France. Both sessions look at Empire, in particular the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, there the similarities end. The first paper...
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