British History Online British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland.
Layers of London Layers of London is a groundbreaking crowd-sourced mapping project that records the rich layers of London's heritage.
Historical Research Historical Research is the IHR's academic journal. Founded in 1923, it is a leading peer-reviewed journal with an international readership and reputation.
Bibliography of British and Irish History The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most extensive guide available to what's been published on British and Irish history.
Victoria County History The Victoria County History is one of the world's longest-running research projects, exploring England's rich local history.
British and Irish Furniture Makers Online British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) is a digital resource that offers new approaches to the history of trades and material culture.
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09 sep Bibliography of British and Irish History – Update September 2019 The Bibliography of British and Irish History has been updated with almost six thousand new records! Some 682 new records relate to Irish history, while 264 dea…
23 aug New from the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire: Wychwood Forest and En… The latest volume in the Oxfordshire series of the Victoria County History (VCH) just been published by Boydell and Brewer is the 19th in the set describing thi…
22 aug Invitation: early-career representatives on the Advisory Board of the Centr… We're looking for two early career researchers / practitioners to join the Advisory Board of the IHR's Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. De…
22 aug Top ten summer reading from the Bibliography of British and Irish History (… The Editors of BBIH choose their Top Ten history articles and essays for Summer 2019. Drawn from a long list of thousands of articles that will be added to the …
12 aug Understanding the Gough Map: an application of physics, chemistry and histo… Catherine Delano-Smith, IHR Senior Research Fellow, outlines her new Leverhulme-funded research project to study the medieval Gough Map, with the help of physic…
18 jul Can a short life be a good life? Brevity in historical biography What's the value of writing a brief life? How does biographical brevity contribute to historical knowledge? Philip Carter recently considered these questions at…
04 jul Getting Muddy: The IHR Wohl Library Mudlark How can 'mud' be used as a creative metaphor for discovery, but also as a starting point for transformative and imaginative engagement with historical sources? …
02 jul IHR@Manchester Reflections on IHR@Manchester, a day of workshops for ECRs and librarians co-organised with the John Rylands Research Institute. The post IHR@Manchester appeare…
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