From March 2020, we've created a guide to freely accessible online resources. We hope this helps researchers who cannot currently visit libraries or archives.
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Research Resources. Support for historians
The IHR is the UK's national centre for history. We create and provide resources to encourage, support and facilitate new research by historians.
These resources range from digital resources, online events, Open Access publications, IHR Library collections and training courses.
The following listing seeks especially to support historians and students unable to access libraries and archives for research in 2020-21.
From our blog - On History
First Term as an IHR Library Graduate Trainee
This blog was written in October by Lara Short, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant at the IHR Library. I graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with BA History in 2023. During my studies, I undertook several archive and heritage internships which sparked my interest in the possibility of a career in information and records management. When […]
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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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First Impressions of the IHR Wohl Library
This blog was written in October by Sophia Benko, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant at the IHR Wohl Library. To celebrate having worked at the IHR library for a month, I would like to share my experiences of the Wohl Library and my journey here. Having moved around the world a lot as a child, I […]
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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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