We’re launching a new series of conference proceedings
The IHR is launching a new book series. Publishing edited collections derived from conferences organised at or by UK universities, the series aims to promote research which significantly advances...
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Being Human: Night at the Library
All images © Lloyd Sturdy We would like to thank regular Friday night library readers for their induldgence over a few evenings in November. Regular visitors to the library may have noticed the odd...
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Ernő Goldfinger and a visit to 2 Willow Road, Hampstead
By Philip Carter As a survey of domestic experience, the IHR’s 2018 Winter Conference—‘Home: new histories of living’ (8-9 February)—ranges widely in its locations and forms of historical dwellings. At...
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Motherhood, Loss and the First World War
By Matthew Shaw There have been numerous acts of commemoration for the centenary of the First World War. Many of these have undoubtedly chimed in meaningful ways with the public’s imagination or...
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In the footsteps of radical Bloomsbury
On Saturday 22 September, the IHR hosted a walking tour of ‘Suffrage and radical Bloomsbury’. The event formed part of the Institute’s year-long ‘Suffrage Series, 1918-2018’ devised to mark the...
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Come and hear ‘Songs of Suffrage’: a concert of music and readings, 1 November
What was the music of the women’s suffrage campaign? Who were the leading women composers and musicians of 1910s and 20s, and what was their contribution to the suffrage cause? On 1 November, the IHR...
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From Archive to Stage: Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London
Alison Skilbeck in Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London (Image: M. Shaw) By Matt ShawA woman waits on stage as the audience enter. She is asleep, wrapped in a fur-trimmed coat. As we settle, the performer...
View ArticleHistory Librarians Workshop, 18 June
By Matt Shaw Our libraries aren’t closed, only the buildings are shut. This, as many librarians have been saying, underscores the great extent to which libraries and librarians have long been involved...
View ArticleIHR Partnership Seminars. A New Programme
As part of its mission to support and facilitate history research and practice across the UK and beyond, the IHR is seeking to develop a new programme of online Partnership Seminars, to launch in...
View ArticleTimely interventions and conversations: IHR announces its new Partnership...
By Catherine Clarke The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce a series of new online Partnership Seminars, in collaboration with historians of all kinds and with institutions across...
View ArticleIHR Partnership Seminars: January 2021 launch of first 4 series
In November 2020 we announced the first 10 seminars series for a new initiative: the IHR online Partnership Seminars. Designed as a space for timely interventions in current and emerging research...
View ArticleIHR Centenary: Events Open Call
Does your organisation do history? Do you want to get involved in a landmark programme of events to celebrate the discipline and practice of history, and shape its future? The Our Century Open Call is...
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IHR #OurCentury: Events Across the UK
From Dover to Glasgow, from film screenings and walking tours to art workshops and steel bands, IHR #OurCentury events will celebrate history in its many forms, right across the UK. Following a huge...
View ArticleTroubling Anniversaries: Online Conference 21-22 October
What role do anniversaries play in public history? How do we negotiate the commemoration of complex pasts? In the IHR’s centenary year, an online international conference hosted in partnership...
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IHR Centenary Global Birthday Event: Reflections on History Past, Present and...
On Thursday 8 July 2021, the IHR celebrated its 100th birthday, with a day of online celebrations taking us from Australia and South East Asia, to Africa and the Middle East, to Europe and North...
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History Day at DCDC
Kate Wilcox from the IHR’s Wohl Library and Argula Rublack from Senate House Library reflect on the recent collaboration with The National Archives, RLUK, and Jisc to bring History Day to the...
View Article8 September online conference: ‘Forward to the Past: Critical Perspectives on...
On the 8 September a one-day interdisciplinary online conference will critically examine the films and ideas of the controversial documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis. Hosted in collaboration with the...
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A Preview of History Day 2021: Environmental History and more
This blog post was written by Kate Wilcox (Institute of Historical Research) and Argula Rublack (Senate House Library) co-organisers of History Day. History Day is a free, one-day event which brings...
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Environmental history: an online reading list for History Day, 4 November 2021
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides records of over 627,600 publications (books, journal articles, and chapters in edited collections) relating to British and Irish history....
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New Ways to work for historians and archivists: Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2021
In March 2020 the Gerald Aylmer Seminar was one of the last in-person events to take place at The National Archives before the first Covid-19 lockdown. In September 2021, 18 months on from the 2020...
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