Posted 4 November | back to the top

New IHR Fellows

At its meeting last month the Advisory Council of the IHR approved the following fellowship nominations:

Honorary Fellows

• Professor Sir Roderick Floud, formerly Dean of the School of Advanced Study, University of London
• Robert Lyons, IHR Librarian, 1992-2009
• Professor Rick Trainor, Principal, King’s College, London, former Chair of the IHR Advisory Council

Senior Research Fellows

• Dr Roland Quinault, formerly Reader in History, London Metropolitan University
• Dr Alan Thacker, Reader in History, University of London, and former editor of the Victoria County History
• Professor Cornelie Usborne, formerly Professor of History, Roehampton University
• Dr Janet Waymark, formerly, Dept. Continuing Education, Birkbeck College

Associate Fellowship status was also given to the research staff of the British Postal Museum and Archive, and to members of the research staff at English Heritage.

Miles Taylor, Director of the IHR, says ‘It is a great pleasure to announce these recent additions to our Fellowship. Our Fellows bring intellectual distinction to the IHR, and help in all sorts of ways with our teaching, research and public engagement’.

Posted 26 January | back to the top

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

British History Online would like to announce an important new addition to its Premium Content section: the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. This source consists of scholarly descriptions of every parliament held in England between 1275 and 1504. It covers 10 monarchs, from Edward I to Henry VII (since no parliament was held in the reign of Edward V, he is not included). The rolls for some of these parliaments, particularly the earlier ones, do not survive, but where they are extant have been fully transcribed; supplementary material about the business of the parliament is given in an appendix. Opposite the original text, which may be in Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English, is a modern English translation. To make PROME easier to use, the text and translation have been put into tables, so that the corresponding paragraphs are simple to locate.

This new content is available to current subscribers at no extra cost. Subscription details can be found here.

Posted 16 October | back to the top

Landscape and Townscape: methods and source for urban, regional and local history

(AHRC Collaborative Research Training scheme)

Online registration is now open for a series of free training events to be run during 2009-10 jointly by the IHR, the University of Leicester, English Heritage and London Metropolitan Archives. The programme, open only to research students registered at UK universities, offers students an opportunity to acquire and develop skills relating to the study of historical landscapes, urban and rural.

For further details click here.

Posted 5 October | back to the top

History On-line bibliographic update - October 2009

The History On-line October bibliographic update is now online. Discover the latest leading history journal articles and history books to be published between October-December 2009 from publishers such as Ashgate Publishing, Microform, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Pearson Education, Routledge and Yale University Press. 

Posted 8 October | back to the top

Call for Papers: Environments: The 79th Anglo American conference of Historians

1-2 July 2010

Next July the Institute of Historical Research’s flagship annual event, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians is taking as its theme Environments. Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace, broadening and deepening our understanding of human interaction with nature, climate, landscape and resources across two millennia of historical time. Our 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.

Click here to download the call for papers document, or visit the AAC2010 website for further details.

Posted 7 October | back to the top

Report on IHR/RHS Forum on proposed changes at TNA

A meeting was held at the IHR on 8 September 2009, under the joint auspices of the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society, to discuss proposed changes at TNA. TNA had announced the proposals on 1 July, and there had been a brief account of them at a meeting held at the IHR, again under IHR/RHS sponsorship, on the same day. Since then, both RHS President Colin Jones and IHR Director Miles Taylor had been made aware of widespread concern among the historical community, and as a consequence TNA staff had accepted an invitation from the IHR and RHS to present the reforms and answer questions at this forum, which was attended by around 50-60 individuals. The full report can be read here.

Posted 5 October | back to the top

Launch of the new Bibliography of British and Irish History

We are delighted to announce the launch on 1 January 2010 of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The BBIH has grown out of, and will supersede, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. The new service will be a partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research and Brepols Publishers.

For the full press release click here, or read our FAQ for more information.

Posted 29 June | back to the top