by uoladmin | Aug 16, 2022 | History & Classics
By Sue Horth, IHR Practitioner in Residence, 2022 In April 2022 I was given the enormous privilege of joining the Institute of Historical Research as its first practitioner in residence, and for the last four months I’ve experienced joy and renewal as part of the...
by uoladmin | Aug 16, 2022 | History & Classics, Uncategorized
Professor Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR History today is challenging, complex, and creative; it is collaborative, energetic and purposeful. In a world that stumbles from crisis to crisis, historical analysis is more critical than ever before. Only by...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
History expert Dr Ian Stone, delves into the ancient narratives composed by the townsmen of 12th and 13th-century Europe, the age of the greatest developments in the urbanisation of western Europe since Roman times. Writing history in medieval western Europe always...
by aseifert | Dec 15, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Digital
Dr Jane Winters, currently head of digital publications at the Institute of Historical Research has just been promoted to a chair in digital history. As such, Professor Winters has agreed to share with us some thoughts of how her work has changed since she...
by aseifert | Feb 20, 2014 | History & Classics, Training and Research
The Institute of Historical Research is part of an international consortium which has won funding to analyse parliamentary material in a new way – using the techniques of ‘big data’. ‘Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data’ is a two-year...