Institute of Historical Research

IHR Winter Conference 2014: The Utopian Universities

Join us in our exploration of the architecture, ideology and activism borne of one of the crucial turning points in the history of Higher Education at this year’s IHR Winter Conference, The Utopian Universities: a fifty-year retrospective.

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Local History Summer School

For all researchers in local history the IHR’s Local History Summer School is the best way to learn new skills and refresh old ones.

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August library closure

To facilitate the IHR’s return to the Senate House north block, it has now been confirmed that the library will close from Saturday 16th August to Saturday 30th August inclusive. See our blog for further details.

Latest reviews

Female Alliances

Amanda Herbert

Art from the First World War

Ross Davies

The Long Shadow

David Reynolds

Latest from the IHR blog

24 Jul - 2nd Annual History Day

23 Jul - New Historical Research articles

21 Jul - History Online – July 2014 Update

17 Jul - Reviews Special Issue – the Great War at Home (3)

New library acquisitions

Crutched Friars and Croisiers : the Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross in England and France

Religious History (ER)

Dictionnaire biographique des militants des industries électriques et gazières : de la Libération aux années 2000

France (EF)

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Forthcoming courses

20 Aug 2014 - Databases for historians II: practical database tools

11 Nov 2014 - Databases for historians I

2 Dec 2014 - Internet for historical research

4 Mar 2015 - Internet for historical research

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Forthcoming events

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Calls for papers

Latest podcasts

Mapping the medieval countryside
Dr Matthew Holford (University of Winchester), Added 15 Jul 2014

Tony Benn: history man?
Keith Flett and others, Added 15 Jul 2014

Digitising the First World War: opportunities and challenges
Professor Sir Deian Hopkin (President of the National Library of Wales), Added 15 Jul 2014

A Tale of Two Mosques: Impresarios of Islam in America and Japan
Professor Nile Green (UCLA), Added 15 Jul 2014

Work Motivation Experiments at the Interwar Cocoa Works
Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College London), Added 15 Jul 2014

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