by Talking Humanities | Jul 30, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and what is style over the ages and across different cultures. The history of fashion, and the role of fashion in history, is not just confined to...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 23, 2015 | Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) has just published Using Film as a Source, the first in a new series of research guides designed to equip students and new researchers with the information they need to tackle a particular field. Written by Sian Barber a...
by aseifert | May 2, 2013 | Digital, History & Classics, Training and Research
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) operates an online research training website called History SPOT. This website includes a wide range of digital research training packages for historians. One of the courses available on the History Spot is Designing...
by aseifert | Feb 25, 2013 | Features
Food and migration: Anglo-American History Food travels. I once watched an Italian colleague cringe when a Korean friend suggested that children in his country wanted to eat American food such as pizza… What the world today knows as pizza is the product of a...
by aseifert | Feb 19, 2013 | Training and Research
Former SAS-Space manager and now engagement and liaison lead for the web archiving team at the British Library, Dr Peter Webster, has written a fascinating blog about electronically preserving private papers of historians. Peter argues that “there is yet more scope...