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Researching Eighteenth Century British Identity and the Napoleonic Era in the IHR Library

Oct 21, 2023

This post was written by Zach Marshall, who completed an internship at the IHR in August 2023, working on the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), Reviews in History and On History. From a young age, history fascinated me, from looking at old family...

‘What to seek, and how to find and use it’ – Students, Archives and the IHR

May 31, 2022

By Phil Winterbottom, PhD student, IHR When in 1904 Albert F. Pollard first spoke of his idea for a post-graduate school of research in history, he began by outlining why such an institution should be based in London: ‘here we have a monopoly of advantages which no...

From Jazz to Digital – 100 Years of the Student Experience at the Institute of Historical Research

Nov 4, 2021

This is the first in a series of blog posts by current and former post-graduate students of the Institute to mark the Institute’s centenary. They will offer different personal perspectives on the student experience at the Institute over the last hundred years. Duncan...

Researching Eighteenth Century British Identity and the Napoleonic Era in the IHR Library

‘What to seek, and how to find and use it’ – Students, Archives and the IHR

From Jazz to Digital – 100 Years of the Student Experience at the Institute of Historical Research

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