Quick guide to resources
Podcasts
- Seminar podcasts - recordings and abstracts of a selection of IHR Seminars
Projects
- Connected Histories - a project to build a federated search facility for a range of distributed digital resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British history.
- The Early English Laws - a collaborative project to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises up to 1215.
- The History in Education Project - a two-year research project, started in January 2009 with the aim to create and publicise a historical record of history teaching as it has developed over the past century in English state schools.
Articles
- Reviews in History - a free online journal with more than 500 book reviews and reappraisals.
- Discourse on postmodernism and history - articles by a range of historians (e.g. Richard J. Evans, Alun Munslow, Arthur Marwick) on the philosophy of history.
- Electronic Journal of International History - a free online journal in International History.
- E-seminars in history - seminar papers on various topics.
- Historical Research - a journal published on behalf of the IHR by Blackwell Publishing. Free access to titles and abstracts but full texts available to subscribers only.
- Manuscript sources for British history
- a guide written by R.J. Olney from the Historical Manuscripts Commission
on finding and using manuscript sources.
History On-line
- Introduction - guide to the following free resources.
- Bibliography - search the latest history books and articles from major publishers.
- Teachers - find a history lecturer in a UK university.
- Theses - find PhD topics researched in UK universities.
- Websites - search an edited database of history websites.
Other resources
- Guides for historians - free IHR publications aimed to help historians in their work. Contains The internet for historians and How to get published: a guide for historians.
- Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae - index of English cathedral clergy from 1066-1857. The full lists are online at British History Online.
- Office-holders - people who held offices in the English central government, starting in the post-medieval era.
- Digitisation - papers and audio files on digitising historical sources.
- History in British Education - proceedings of two conferences held at the IHR: 'History in British Education' (14 - 15 February 2005) and 'History in Schools and Higher Education' (29 September 2005).
- History and the public - proceedings and audio lectures of a conference held at the IHR on 13 - 14 February 2006.
- Why History Matters - proceedings and audio lectures of the conference held at the IHR on 12 - 13 February 2007.
- Record society publishing - conference proceedings and other resources relating to UK record society publishing.
Submissions
- Institute of Historical Research Conference Series – Submission Guidelines for Editors.
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