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New online tool will help to connect history

Historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash boost from JISC. The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, and King’s College London, will create an innovative search engine for a wide range of electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth century British history. See the press release for more details or visit the project page.

Final call for papers: Cities and nationalisms

The Centre for Metropolitan History invites individual and panel proposals for a two-day conference in June 2010 on ‘Cities and Nationalisms’. Possible themes might include how festivals and parades, or the built environment, or literary and visual accounts of the city, have promoted or maintained nationalisms. The deadline for proposals is 30 November 2009. Click here for full conference details.

Early English Laws website

We are delighted to announce that the Early English Laws website is now live. This three-year, AHRC-funded project (a collaboration with King's College London) will publish new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to c.1215.

Global History seminar series 2010

Beginning in February 2010, and presented by the IHR, the University of Notre Dame and the History Department of the University of Warwick, the Global History seminar 2010 will explore global aspects of Trust, Technology, Racism, The Consumption of Culture, Environmental History and Music and Culture. For further details click here.

The RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History database update

The Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History has added 8,000 records in its most recent update, including just over 3,000 relating to Irish history, mostly originating from Irish History Online. This will be the last RHS Bibliography data upgrade before the launch of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) on 1 January 2010. Trial subscriptions are now available from Brepols Publishers, contact brepolis@brepols.net for futher information.

Environments: the 79th Anglo American Conference of Historians, 1-2 July 2010

Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace. Next year’s Anglo-American conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today.

Study at the Institute of Historical Research – Britain’s national centre for history

The IHR now offers MA degrees in Historical Research, Contemporary British History, Local and Regional History and Urban and Metropolitan History, as well as PhD opportunities. Click here for details.