Sep 14, 2023
This blog post was written by Justin Colson, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Digital History in the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. The IHR’s second annual summer school ran for the full week of 10 to 14 July 2023. Participants came...
Aug 23, 2023
This blog post was written by Justin Colson, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Digital History in the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community (CHPPC). Some decisions can have momentous tangible impacts upon where we live: our collective memories,...
Jun 30, 2023
IHR Director, Claire Langhamer, reflects on some recent IHR event and seminar highlights. Since January we have been involved in, and hosted, very many events, many of which are collaborative in nature. Here I want to pull out some particular highlights, from the last...
Jul 14, 2022
This post was written by Adam Chapman, the General Editor of the Victoria County History, and Lecturer in Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research. [Working for the VCH] sparked my long-forgotten childhood curiosity around the history of place, what...
Mar 31, 2022
The Victoria County History (VCH) is well known for its detailed studies of individual localities, which assemble (in the words of one recent reviewer) ‘countless tiny parts to build a much larger whole’. The ‘Big Red Books’ describing the...
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