Dec 7, 2020
By Jonathan Blaney In this post, Jonathan Blaney—editor of British History Online—explains the latest stage in BHO’s project recording the history of History PhDs in the UK and Ireland. Earlier this year we completed work to digitize, index and publish records of...
Jun 23, 2020
By Philip Carter British History Online has recently digitised and published the records of 22,000 history PhDs from UK and Irish universities. The records cover research degrees awarded between 1970 and 2014, drawn from the IHR’s annual print catalogues of recently...
Jan 24, 2012
Beyond the interviews the virtual exhibition (which is well worth a look) includes various statistics (largely gathered from the 1990s London PhD project that looked into the history of History doctorates between 1921 and 1990 at the University of London and the more...
Jan 23, 2012
Last year I was interviewed about my experiences of the PhD as part of the IHR’s celebration of the 90th anniversary of the PhD in Britain. I don’t claim to be an expert or necessarily to have anything particularly interesting to say on the subject as every...
Jan 18, 2012
Podcasts now available (click here):The History PhD: Past, Present and Future conference28 January 2011 Last year marked the 90th anniversary of the PhD in Britain. I must admit I was initially surprised at the modernity of the PhD. Having worked my way through the...