Research Resources. Support for historians

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.

From August 2020, a new IHR Library guide for teachers and learners: discover resources for teaching histories of race, migration and empire at all levels.

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

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 Records of London's Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) provides information on Apprentices and Freemen in the City of London Livery Companies, between 1400 and 1900.

'People, Property and Charity' provides a history of the early modern benefactors, property acquisitions and charitable activity of The Clothworkers’ Company in the City of London.

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

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

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

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

For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Reviews in History is the IHR's online reviews service. It provides specialist commentaries on the latest historical books, exhibitions and digital resources.

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

On History is the IHR's digital magazine. It publishes accessible and engaging articles that reflect contemporary issues facing the discipline and deepen public understanding of the past.

Making History was an IHR project, launched in 2008, which provided information on the development of the historical profession, with a focus on people, research schools and networks. Making History is now an archive site but still contains much valuable content.

History Online is a resource for historians, which provides key information about our discipline. 

We create recordings of weekly IHR seminars, as well as of special events, panels and lectures. A podcast listing is available, with new recordings added through the year.

Explore all of our forthcoming events, from public lectures and conversations to research training and workshops, plus all our upcoming research seminars.

We are home to the UK's largest programme of research seminars dedicated to history, with over 70 meeting regularly during the academic year. All welcome, explore the directory.

Explore our archive of IHR events, from special events to public lectures, workshops and conversations.

We create recordings of weekly IHR seminars, as well as of special events, panels and lectures. A podcast listing is available, with new recordings added through the year.

IHR Library & Digital provides a wealth of services and resources, both in person and online, to all those interested in history.

Library guidance for students, researchers and librarians.

The IHR Conference series publishes edited collections from academic conferences covering all periods and fields of history. All titles available Open Access.

IHR Shorts is a new Open Access series that experiments with publishing formats: historical debate longer than a journal article but shorter than a monograph.

All titles in the Conference, Shorts and New Historical Perspectives series are accessible free, Open Access, via the University of London Press's online books platform. 30 IHR books and 300 book chapters available.

Most IHR books are also available free via JSTOR Open Access book platform, allowing chapter-by-chapter views and downloads of each IHR title. JSTOR OA also has free historical content from many other publishers.

Historical Research is the IHR's academic journal. Founded in 1923, it is a leading peer-reviewed journal with an international readership and reputation.

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

We create recordings of weekly IHR seminars, as well as of special events, panels and lectures. A podcast listing is available, with new recordings added through the year.

The IHR offers a wide range of training courses for historians at all career stages, from digital research and oral history to archives and publishing.