A new (but familiar) home for IHR Digital/Publications

The IHR Publications team (now including IHR Digital) has never been located in one place. At our most dispersed we were divided over four floors, from the old IHR basement to the third floor. For all but the most health conscious this involved considerable use of the...

Spring/Summer issue of Past & Future out now!

The latest issue of the IHR’s magazine, Past and Future, is now available. This issue includes a trip behind the scenes of the V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries by curator Glyn Davies; an exploration of Soviet deaf theatre by Scouloudi...

Who was Henry VII?

He fought Richard III to the death in 1485 after 14 years in exile and a tenuous claim to the throne. He was aware that five of the last nine English kings were killed so they could be replaced. Yet he brought stability to the realm, economic solvency to the...

New book! The Creighton Century

The Creighton Century marks 100 years of the Creighton Lecture, containing 10 lectures introduced by historians from the University of London. They range from perceptions of the Industrial Revolution (Donald Coleman) to the situation of interwar Japan (Ian Nish) and...