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.
09 oct Mapping 2750 furniture makers on Layers of London The British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) is a record of 70,000 historical craftspeople. We're now combining BIFMO data with another IHR project, La…
01 oct ‘It may hereby please you to understand’: early modern petitions on British… How did ordinary people complain or appeal to their social superiors in early modern England? 'The Power of Petitioning' is a research project exploring this qu…
17 sep London is Calling The Bibliography of British and Irish History now offers easy access to information on more than 1,250 PhD theses on metropolitan history. London is calling. Th…
09 sep Bibliography of British and Irish History – Update September 2019 The Bibliography of British and Irish History has been updated with almost six thousand new records! Some 682 new records relate to Irish history, while 264 dea…
23 aug New from the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire: Wychwood Forest and En… The latest volume in the Oxfordshire series of the Victoria County History (VCH) just been published by Boydell and Brewer is the 19th in the set describing thi…
22 aug Invitation: early-career representatives on the Advisory Board of the Centr… We're looking for two early career researchers / practitioners to join the Advisory Board of the IHR's Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. De…
22 aug Top ten summer reading from the Bibliography of British and Irish History (… The Editors of BBIH choose their Top Ten history articles and essays for Summer 2019. Drawn from a long list of thousands of articles that will be added to the …
12 aug Understanding the Gough Map: an application of physics, chemistry and histo… Catherine Delano-Smith, IHR Senior Research Fellow, outlines her new Leverhulme-funded research project to study the medieval Gough Map, with the help of physic…
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.
Digital History Digital is central to everything we do at the IHR. We've a well-established reputation as a creator of digital resources and digital approaches to the past.
