Novel Approaches: A Virtual Conference

Tomorrow around 4.30pm you’ll find me running around setting up audio equipment in preparation for the first part of the IHR’s Novel Approaches: from academic history to historical fiction conference.  The conference seeks to look at the intersection and...

SPOT Newsletter: 9 November 2011

Hello and welcome to this week’s SPOT Newsletter.  Today we’ll be looking at two seminars from our collaboration with seminar groups outside of the IHR taken from the previous academic year.  We have been very fortunate to build ties with the...

History SPOT has launched!

I have been waiting to write that title for well over a year now.  After a delay of over 5 months History SPOT is finally ready to launch!    Research Seminars, Lectures and Conferences History SPOT is brimming full of podcasts from IHR seminars, conferences and...

Anglo-American Health in History and Asa Briggs: A Celebration

Recently we have uploaded brand new podcasts from two highly successful conferences held this year at the IHR.  The first are a selection of podcasts from our annual Anglo-American conference.  This year the subject was Health in History, which proved both timely...

SPOT Newsletter: Health Special (13 July 2011)

Two weeks ago the IHR held its 80th Anglo-American conference.  This topic was Health in History which presented the opportunity for historians to discuss a variety of health related histories and in some cases relate that research to current medical demands and...