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IHR Easter closure

The IHR will be closing on Wednesday 31 March at 17:30 and re-opening on Wednesday 7 April at 09:00.

Listen to Professor Miles Taylor's inaugural lecture

The inaugural lecture by IHR Director Miles Taylor, delivered last week to a packed Beveridge Hall, is now available as a podcast. Click here to listen to him speak on 'The Dominion of History: the Export of Historical Research from Britain since 1850'.

New Global History podcast

'Racism - a Global History', the fourth in the Global History seminar series presented by the Institute of Historical Research, the University of Notre Dame and the History Department of the University of Warwick is now available to download as a podcast.

Reviews in History website relaunched

The new Reviews in History website can be found here. All the content from Reviews' previous incarnation is here, but with much improved search- and browsability and (we hope) a more aesthetically pleasing look. Feedback is welcome and should be sent to the deputy editor Danny Millum.

Bursaries for editors of medieval legal texts

Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is offering 20 bursaries worth £2,000 each. They are designed to support scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of the AHRC-funded EEL project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website. If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer Jenny Benham.

Restoration London conference call for papers

The Centre for Hearth Tax Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, and Birkbeck, University of London, will host an international conference on ‘Restoration London’ at the Institute of Historical Research on 22-23 September 2010. See here for further details.

Environments: the 79th Anglo-American Conference, 1-2 July 2010

Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace. Next year’s Anglo-American conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today.

Study at the Institute of Historical Research – Britain’s national centre for history

The IHR offers MA degrees in Historical Research as well as PhD opportunities. Click here for details.