Aug 7, 2023
This blog post was written by Neil Stewart, Head of IHR Library & Digital I was lucky enough to travel last month to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. I flew into Albuquerque—a bustling desert junction situated on Route...
Apr 16, 2019
By Laurie Lindey The British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) project is a partnership between the Institute of Historical Research and the Furniture History Society. It encompasses research, resources, training and events to engage with a global community of...
Dec 18, 2018
By Sara Charles Welcome to our Christmas top ten for 2018! Twice a year the Bibliography of British and Irish History presents a special selection of material that has been indexed on the BBIH to demonstrate the wide and varied strands of historical research...
Nov 14, 2018
By Annie Carey Rogers Tucked off the main streets of Gainesville, Florida, the Historic Haile Homestead was built for the Haile family in the 1850s by enslaved labourers. Local historians and docents of the Haile Homestead deduce that the matron, Serena Haile, began...
Oct 25, 2018
By Philip Carter For Open Access Week 2018 (21-28 October), here are five ways in which the Institute of Historical Research is engaging with OA publishing. But first … What is Open Access? Open access refers to the free access to and generally free reuse...