Continuity and Change at the IHR

Continuity and Change at the IHR

By Janette Bright In 2020, as the world around us changed dramatically, IHR students (past and present) decided that as their contribution to the IHR Centenary celebrations they would look back at their predecessors from the very beginnings of the Institute.  This...
IHR Research Guide: Doing Digital History

IHR Research Guide: Doing Digital History

Read more about the latest volume in the IHR Research Guide series. Doing Digital History: a beginner’s guide to working with text as data, is written by former IHR staff members, who all played a central role in maintaining the IHR’s digital resources,...
IHR@Manchester

IHR@Manchester

By Philip Carter On 25 June the Institute headed to the north-west for IHR@Manchester, a day research workshop for early career historians and History librarians. The day was jointly organised with the John Rylands Research Institute and held in the Historic...
Historical research in London archives

Historical research in London archives

This post was written by Charlie Berry, a doctoral student at the Institute of Historical Research and cross-posted from the History Collections website.  As a research student, a lot of my time is spent beavering away in libraries and archives. My thesis topic,...