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Layers of London: Project Site Live!

The project site for our HLF-funded digital mapping project, Layers of London, is now live!

You can peel back the layers of London's history and explore it's rich, diverse past. Explore map layers and curated historical collections on the site now.

'On History': The IHR's new digital magazine now launched

The IHR's new digital magazine and blog, On History, is now live!

Explore articles, research, and news for historians and history lovers. Our aim is to publish accessible articles that reflect on contemporary issues facing our discipline, and deepen public understandings of the past. Submissions welcome.

'Songs of Suffrage, 1900-1925'

A special concert featuring the music and words of three women composers of the 1910s and 20s, each prominent in the suffrage campaign.

Join us on Thursday 1 November for a concert performed by the Berkeley Ensemble and BBC broadcaster Dr Kate Kennedy. With music by Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke and Dorothy Howell, whose string quartet has not been performed for nearly 100 years.

Co-hosted by IHR and Senate House Library.

Booking now open

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23 Oct - Is history repeating itself? Timely new additions to the Bibliography of British and Irish History

18 Oct - 10 Key Findings from the RHS Race, Ethnicity & Equality Report

17 Oct - The Re-Imagining of Christian Frederick Cole

16 Oct - Come and hear ‘Songs of Suffrage’: a concert of music and readings, 1 November

New library acquisitions

Words of light : theses on the photography of history

General (E)

The Kerner report / National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

United States (UB, UF, US)

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Forthcoming courses

30 Oct 2018 - Databases for historians

6 Nov 2018 - Historical citation

11 Dec 2018 - Internet for historical research

10 Jan 2019 - Historical Mapping and Geographical Information Systems

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Latest podcasts

The left and the cult of the individual
Kevin Morgan, Added 24 Jul 2018

Toward a transnational history of the English Public Schools
Petter Sandgren, Stockholm University, Added 24 Jul 2018

Building bridges of trust: child transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII
Ann Nehlin, University of Stockholm, Added 24 Jul 2018

The ‘Digital Thematic Deconstruction’ of early modern urban maps and bird’s-eye views
Bram Vannieuwenhuyze, Amsterdam, Added 24 Jul 2018

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News and jobs

Research Officer

Bletchley Park

Strathclyde-Shanghai Early Career Medical Humanities...

Opportunity to work for a year in Shanghai

Head of Research

The National Archives

Professor of International History (University of Cork)

School of History, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

Lecturer in Modern History (Scholarship)

University of Aberdeen

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

German History Society