by Talking Humanities | Mar 10, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Matt Shaw and Michael Townsend talk about the Institute of Historical Research’s (IHR) plans to develop its library holdings and respond to the important charge that discussion and initiatives around ‘decolonisation’ is sometimes just another form of ‘equality...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 27, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Research & Resources
In September 2018, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) launched Layers of London – a new website that enables the mapping and sharing of London’s history through community participation. The project is now engaging thousands of Londoners from across the city’s...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 1, 2018 | Events, PotW
How did Denmark become the modern, wealthy, welfare state that it is today? Reports of Danish modernity have emphasised the importance of the agricultural sector and especially the shift from grain to animal production in the late nineteenth century. Moreover, pork...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 3, 2018 | Events, History & Classics, Politics & Law, PotW
The extraordinary death tolls suffered on the fighting fronts of the First World War gave rise to devastating and unprecedented levels of loss for individuals and communities across Europe and the wider world. Indeed, bereavement became so widespread during the...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 7, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Image© IWM (D 70112) By the time conscription ended in 1963, some 2.3 million young men had completed two years national service. Below, Professor Peter Gurney, Dr Matthew Grant and Dr Joel Morley from the University of Essex’s history department, highlight the...
