Research Projects

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

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.

Layers of London is a groundbreaking crowd-sourced mapping project that records the rich layers of London's heritage.

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

The IHR is committed to developing Open Access (OA) publishing for historians. Titles in a range of IHR series appear as OA from first publication.

IHR staff are exploring the applications of 3D imaging and printing for humanities research and teaching.

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most extensive guide available to what's been published on British and Irish history.