Research Training 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.
Online Courses We offer a range of free online courses, covering subjects as diverse as data preservation, designing databases, digital tools and palaeography.
Study with Us We offer taught postgraduate courses and M.Phil/PhD programmes supervised by research subject area experts.
MRes in Historical Research The IHR offers an MRes degree in Historical Research, comprising taught sessions and a 30,000 word dissertation.
MPhil / PhD The IHR has an active research programme of MPhil and PhD degrees for full and part-time students.
MA in Garden and Landscape History The IHR offers an MA in Garden and Landscape History, comprising taught sessions and a 15,000 word dissertation.
History Lab History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines.
History Lab Plus History Lab Plus is a network that supports early career historians and independent researchers.
12 jan IHR Partnership Seminars: January 2021 launch of first 3 series Starting on 12 January, we launch the first in our new series of IHR Partnership Seminars for 2021-22. Partnership Seminars offer a new channel for scholarly ex…
22 dec The Institute of Historical Research in 2020 In our final post for 2020, here's a look back at some of the Institute's work in a busy and often difficult year. Throughout 2020, and especially since March, …
20 dec Popham: recreating a Victorian village via the census In this post Nancy Rickman, an A-Level History student, describes her placement with the Hampshire Team of the Victoria County History earlier in 2020. Nancy se…
17 dec ‘Reviews in History’, 2020: the year in review During 2020 the IHR's Reviews in History site has published reviews and responses on 75 notable monographs and edited collections. This post highlights a few of…
07 dec PhD –> BHO –> BL –> PhD: linking British History Online’s thesis data to th… In summer 2020 we began a project to add records of 30,000 UK PhD theses to British History Online. In this post (the third in a series on this subject), Jonath…
30 nov Earth, ice, wind and fire: making men on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour 'Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour' is the latest title in the New Historical Perspectives series from the IHR, Royal Historical Socie…
17 nov New from the Victoria County History of Leicestershire: Ibstock The latest title in the VCH Short series is Ibstock, from the Victoria County History of Leicestershire. Written by Pamela J. Fisher, Ibstock is the third Short…
11 nov Letting the people speak: 2526 early modern petitions on British History On… The IHR's 'British History Online' has recently completed a project to digitise and publish over 2500 petitions from early modern England. Working with 'The Pow…
Library The IHR Wohl Library has one of the world's greatest collections of open shelf primary works & reference materials.
Seminars, A-Z 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.
Centre for the History of People, Place and Community The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community fosters engaged, innovative research into placed histories across all regions and periods.
Our Mission The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history. Learn more about our mission, our values and our vision for the future.