Research Projects

British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland.

The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community fosters engaged, innovative research into placed histories across all regions and periods.

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is a record of over 627,000 books, articles and essays relating to the British and Irish past, worldwide.

An AHRC funded research project: Covid Rumours in Historical Context.

Examining the consumer culture of the fifteenth century through digital analysis of London's medieval customs accounts

Layers of London is a ground-breaking crowd-sourced mapping projects that charts the rich layers of London's past.

The IHR is technical partner for ‘The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England’, an AHRC-funded project led by Birkbeck and University College London

This research project seeks, for the first time, to produce a scholarly examination of the so-called ‘Windrush Scandal’ within a fully transnational framework.

British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) is a digital resource that offers new approaches to the history of trades and material culture.

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