Institute of Historical Research
@ihr.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
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🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A big thank you to everyone who came to History Day 2025! You can check out the online collections all year round on the Discover Collections site 🌟
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November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A big thank you to everyone who came to History Day 2025! You can check out the online collections all year round on the Discover Collections site 🌟
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@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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Happy 75th birthday to @thenacbs.bsky.social! If you are at #NACBS2025 in Montreal, say hello to our Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer in Urban & Digital History and Deputy Director of @chppc.bsky.social @justincolson.bsky.social, and Institute Manager Conor Wyer.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy 75th birthday to @thenacbs.bsky.social! If you are at #NACBS2025 in Montreal, say hello to our Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, Senior Lecturer in Urban & Digital History and Deputy Director of @chppc.bsky.social @justincolson.bsky.social, and Institute Manager Conor Wyer.
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Very much looking forward to teaching on this new interactive in-person 2-day Oral History and Digital Storytelling short course alongside my fabulous colleague @maxinebeuret.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social in February. DM me for more details. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Oral History and Digital Storytelling
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November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Very much looking forward to teaching on this new interactive in-person 2-day Oral History and Digital Storytelling short course alongside my fabulous colleague @maxinebeuret.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social in February. DM me for more details. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
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The next seminar in our autumn series will be on 20 November, with Riccardo Guarino's paper, 'Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social
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Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems
This session will explore the ethics of contemporary art in nature, questioning ecological harm, commodification, and proposing non-intrusive, restorative alternatives.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The next seminar in our autumn series will be on 20 November, with Riccardo Guarino's paper, 'Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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On Friday 28 November (3pm) I'll be speaking in the seminar series from the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. It's free and open to the public - all welcome! Info in AltText.
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
On Friday 28 November (3pm) I'll be speaking in the seminar series from the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. It's free and open to the public - all welcome! Info in AltText.
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event
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📢 JOB ALERT 📢
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Work with us
Help us to create more opportunities for everyone to enjoy and benefit from science.
www.rigb.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📢 JOB ALERT 📢
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.
Please share widely!
More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
One for book, print, and manuscripts historians: Kilian Laclavetine ‘Study of the Manufacture of 15th Century Italian Tarot Cards with a Non-Invasive Methodology’ 12 Nov 5pm on Zoom.
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Color Studies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One for book, print, and manuscripts historians: Kilian Laclavetine ‘Study of the Manufacture of 15th Century Italian Tarot Cards with a Non-Invasive Methodology’ 12 Nov 5pm on Zoom.
www.chstm.org/group/color-...
www.chstm.org/group/color-...
Are you studying, researching or teaching military histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching military histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
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blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
Domesday at the IHR - On History
IHR Fellow, Chris Lewis, writes about new publication, 'Making Domesday'.
blog.history.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
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Join us online at 5.00pm on Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Professor Hugh Clegg - His Life and Legacy
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November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Join us online at 5.00pm on Thursday 20 November @ihr.bsky.social when an expert panel will discuss the life and legacy of Professor Hugh Clegg (1920-95) a key figure in the study of post-war British Industrial Relations. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
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#ICYMI
The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.
Free to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below to register!
#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.
Free to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below to register!
#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)
NEW SEMINAR! 'The Station Master’s Railway: Self-Representation & the Moral Life of Infrastructure' Nirali Joshi (Åbo Akademi University) 20 November 2025, 17.30 UK; hybrid Part of the…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#ICYMI
The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.
Free to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below to register!
#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.
Free to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below to register!
#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
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TOMORROW Joanna Tucker of @uofglasgow.bsky.social presents on ‘Multi-scribe manuscripts: reflections on cartularies & chronicles from medieval #Scotland’ 🏴
Join us online 💻 or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social 🏢
Register via bit.ly/londonmedieval
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Join us online 💻 or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social 🏢
Register via bit.ly/londonmedieval
Looking forward to seeing you there!
London Society for Medieval Studies
Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE).
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November 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
TOMORROW Joanna Tucker of @uofglasgow.bsky.social presents on ‘Multi-scribe manuscripts: reflections on cartularies & chronicles from medieval #Scotland’ 🏴
Join us online 💻 or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social 🏢
Register via bit.ly/londonmedieval
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Join us online 💻 or at the Senate House @ihr.bsky.social 🏢
Register via bit.ly/londonmedieval
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Our next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar will be on 25th November. We will be welcoming Ben Braber to present on depictions of immigrants in British media between 1841 and 2021 - sign up link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Depictions of immigrants in British newspapers between 1841 and 2021
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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar will be on 25th November. We will be welcoming Ben Braber to present on depictions of immigrants in British media between 1841 and 2021 - sign up link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A difficult thought for us to stay with
On 13 Nov, 17.30 GMT, join a session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories with Jennifer Pitts on Dipesh Chakrabarty, planetary indifference, and the history of political thought 👉 loom.ly/4hv072g
Co-organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello
On 13 Nov, 17.30 GMT, join a session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories with Jennifer Pitts on Dipesh Chakrabarty, planetary indifference, and the history of political thought 👉 loom.ly/4hv072g
Co-organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello
A difficult thought for us to stay with: Dipesh Chakrabarty, planetary indifference, and the history of political thought
Planetary Histories seminar- session 2
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November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A difficult thought for us to stay with
On 13 Nov, 17.30 GMT, join a session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories with Jennifer Pitts on Dipesh Chakrabarty, planetary indifference, and the history of political thought 👉 loom.ly/4hv072g
Co-organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello
On 13 Nov, 17.30 GMT, join a session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories with Jennifer Pitts on Dipesh Chakrabarty, planetary indifference, and the history of political thought 👉 loom.ly/4hv072g
Co-organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello
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Just ONE WEEK remaining until this fantastic seminar at @ihr.bsky.social!!
Sign up by THIS SUNDAY at 6pm to join us in-person or online!m via the link in the OP below ⬇️
Sign up by THIS SUNDAY at 6pm to join us in-person or online!m via the link in the OP below ⬇️
Less than 2 WEEKS until our next seminar at @ihr.bsky.social w/ Atlanta Tsiaoukkas of @cambridge.org presenting her work on schoolgirl sporting heroines of early 20th century girls’ fiction on November 17th!
Sign up by 6pm on November 16th via the link ⬇️
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Sign up by 6pm on November 16th via the link ⬇️
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Schoolgirl Sporting Heroines of Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ Fiction
This session will explore how early 20th-century girls’ fiction recast the schoolgirl as a sporting heroine, redefining femininity through athleticism, patriotism, and modern ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just ONE WEEK remaining until this fantastic seminar at @ihr.bsky.social!!
Sign up by THIS SUNDAY at 6pm to join us in-person or online!m via the link in the OP below ⬇️
Sign up by THIS SUNDAY at 6pm to join us in-person or online!m via the link in the OP below ⬇️
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Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
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Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Taster Session: Introduction to Responsible AI
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November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for History Day 2025! 🎉
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
#HistDay25
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
#HistDay25
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for History Day 2025! 🎉
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
#HistDay25
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
#HistDay25
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the #PollardPrize 2025! Berry's paper 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' will be published in Historical Research @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the #PollardPrize 2025! Berry's paper 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' will be published in Historical Research @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
Reposting some spooky goings on from @vch-london.bsky.social.
A spooky story from the Victoria County History archive (or is it...?). A tribute to M R James and the world of the early VCH, which I first shared on 31 October last year - I hope you enjoy it. #Halloween @vch-home.bsky.social
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VCH Ghost Story - On History
With the nights drawing in, it’s the season for storytelling. This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to then-Gener...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposting some spooky goings on from @vch-london.bsky.social.
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HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November
What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
HISTORY EVENT. There's good institution-building work happening at London's IHR. History Day, 4th November