History Day 2016

What is History Day? And how can it help your research? Historical research requires a rich ecosystem of libraries, archives, associations, publishers and other organisations to flourish. Part of the process of becoming a historian, or understaking research with a...

On An Internship

This post by IHR Digital intern Jaipreet Deo was originally written for Leicester University Student Blogs. You might remember that I started an internship a couple of weeks ago. I’d just like to comment on a couple of things. Bad things that could happen on an...

Connected Histories: Crime and Punishment

This post has kindly been written for us by IHR Digital intern Rebecca Gillard. Since starting my studies as a History BA student I have become increasingly interested in the topic of crime and punishment. The site Connected Histories proved extremely useful due to...

Women and autobiography in the 16th and 17th centuries

This post has kindly been written for us by IHR Digital intern Katherine Cassidy. As a history undergraduate endeavouring  to write my dissertation, Connected Histories has been a vastly useful resource for conducting my primary source research. In short, the website...