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14 - 18 July 2025
The IHR London Summer School offers a unique opportunity to explore London’s stories and historic places from our home here at Senate House in the heart of Bloomsbury. Guest lectures from world-renowned experts and interactive workshops will focus on topics from London’s earliest history to the present day – as well as visions and policy debates around its future. Site-specific work will take us out to archives and museums, as well as offering special access to some of London’s most fascinating historic sites. Students will have access to the remarkable London collections in the IHR’s Wohl Library, including maps, rare books and a range of important primary and secondary sources. Alongside programmed content, IHR academic and library staff will be available informally for consultation and bespoke support.
The London Summer School builds on the IHR’s outstanding strengths in urban and metropolitan history, and especially London history, formerly concentrated in its Centre for Metropolitan History (founded in 1988 by the IHR and Museum of London) and now based in its Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. The Summer School draws on this world-class academic heritage, as well as other high-profile projects and centres based in the IHR: the Victoria County History of England (founded 1899), History & Policy: the UK’s national network for connecting historians and policy-makers, and Layers of London: the major history mapping project which brings together historic maps, material from archives and institutions, and crowdsourced content from communities across the city. The Summer School will also feature cutting-edge new research from other projects both within and beyond the University of London.
From medieval uprisings to religious dissent and political subversion, from radicals and visionaries to punk, placards and protests… Discover London’s rebellious histories through lectures, workshops, trips and visits.
You will also have option to take the IHR London Summer School as a credit-bearing University of London module.
- Read about the IHR London Summer School 2022: Renewal here.
- Read about the IHR London Summer School 2023: Secret London here.
- Read about the IHR London Summer School 2024: Rivers here.
Image: Jack Cade's Rebellion, depicted in a mural of the history of the Old Kent Road (1965) by Adam Kossowski. CC BY 2.0.
