What's On

Co-hosted and presented in partnership with the Runnymede Trust (December 2018).

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan performed a brilliant spoken word poem on 'British Values.'

Our 2018 Suffrage Series included a panel on Commemoration, with speakers Caroline Criado Perez and Sarah Jackson of the East End Women's Museum.

Organised with History Today, this series of 4 panel events addressed topical issues for historians. Here David Olugosa considers history and broadcasting.

'Motherhood, Loss & the First World War', a 2-day conference with Big Ideas, combined talks, lectures and a closing concert by the violinist Clare Connors.

A walking and singing tour of radical sites in the Bloomsbury district of London, from the Chartists to the Pankhursts, led by Matthew Ingleby.

The launch of the Layers of London site. Layers is an interactive digital mapping platform, enabling users to 'pin' London history to historical maps online.

A concert of women's music & voices, performed by the Berkeley Ensemble and broadcaster Kate Kennedy, to mark the centenary of women gaining the vote in 1918.

'AfroCROWDUKxIHR: Black Lives in England 1500-1800' was a Wikipedia workshop, held at the Institute, and led by Kelly Foster and Miranda Kaufmann.

The 2019 Historical Research lecture, sponsored by Wiley, was given by Rob Waters in conversation with Kennetta Hammond Perry.

A day research workshop, organised with the John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, which brought together historians and ECRs for training and networking.

Objects discovered in the IHR Library relating to the history of the River Thames, complete with a 3D-printed model of Tower Bridge created by IHR DIgital.

The 2020 Aylmer Conference, organised with The National Archives and Royal Historical Society, asked how do historians and archivists work best together?

To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Victoria County History, an online exhibition featuring selected items of regional significance from each VCH county.

A joint event from the IHR and RHS brought together commissioning editors and first-time authors to discuss transforming your PhD into a first book.

A series of online guides to engagement and public history, featuring the IHR's Layers of London project.

A guide to new developments and activity in regional and local history, with a special focus on online research.

This year's Historical Research lecture asked how future researchers might approach and write the history of 2020, and how we best prepare the ground now.