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Promotes better public policy through a greater understanding of history,

 

Centre for the History of People, Place and Community

CHPPC fosters engaged, innovative research into placed histories across all regions and periods, from the rural to the urban and the parish to the metropolis.

 

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From our blog - On History

Henry VIII and the IHR Library

This blog post was written by Sophia Benko, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant at the IHR Wohl Library. While librarians always live in fear of fire destroying their collections, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, I would like to face my fears and focus on Henry VIII, the play that famously caused the Globe […]

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IHR Summer Reading Series

Volume 5 During the month of August we will be sharing summer reading lists, experiences, and suggestions from the IHR community. If you’d like to share your own, please Tweet (X) us @ihr_history. In this blog, we hear from Neil Stewart, Head of the IHR Library. Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop I […]

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What we do & why we matter

A sample of our projects and other resources

The Windrush Scandal

The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context. The project’s key objective is to develop a unique digital research resource of extended interviews on the national and diplomatic activism around the Windrush scandal.

Layers of London

Layers of London is a map-based history website developed by the Institute of Historical Research. Users can access free historic maps of London and contribute stories, memories and histories to create a social history resource about their area.

Publications and Open Access titles

Open Access Publishing

The IHR encourages the development of Open Access (OA) publishing for historians and readers.

Victoria County History

The Victoria County History is one of the world's longest-running research projects, exploring England's rich local history.

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