What we offer
In the building
- Wifi access - connect your laptop or mobile phone to the internet whilst inside the IHR.
- Library - over 300 current periodicals and over 165,000 items, including a comprehensive collection of the chief printed primary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles and Western Europe.
- Seminars - over 40 seminar series on different topics.
- Postgraduate study - MA and PhD programmes.
- Research training - popular courses for historians.
- Bookshop - exclusive IHR publications, including annual directories of research funding and teaching.
- Membership and friends privileges, including access to the library.
- Room hire - hire a room for your own events.
- Conferences - regular conferences including the annual Anglo-American Conference of Historians.
- Common room - a relaxing place to meet before seminars or to take a break from work in the library.
In print
- Historical Research - the Institute's journal, published by Blackwell.
- Books - a range of printed works including Teachers of history, Grants for History, and Theses. Note: you can search for teachers at History On-line.
On the web
- Articles - an enormous range of free articles including Reviews in History, an online journal with reviews of the latest history books.
- History On-line, a section of our
site that includes:
- Books and articles - new and forthcoming history books and journal articles.
- Teachers - university history teachers in the UK.
- Theses - ongoing and completed history research at universities in the UK.
- Websites - history-related websites.
- Conferences - history conferences around the world. Advertise your conference using our online conference form.
- Seminars, lectures, courses and workshops, and more events (colloquia, roundtables, exhibitions). A noticeboard of history events for the academic community. Advertise your events by emailing them to ihr.webmaster@sas.ac.uk. The IHR's own seminars are in the seminars section.
- News - latest news from the history community. Send your news items to ihr.webmaster@sas.ac.uk, and we'll put them on the News page for free.
- Jobs - jobs in the history community. Advertise your jobs on the IHR news page by emailing them to ihr.webmaster@sas.ac.uk. Studentship adverts are free; other job adverts cost £20.
- Guides for historians - free guides to history practice.
- Digitisation - how to digitise resources with British History Online, the IHR's digital library for British history.
- Conference proceedings on History in British education and History and the public.
- Partner sites - IHR research centres, IHR projects and other IHR-supported resources. These contain primary and secondary sources, bibliographies, articles and events information.
- Library catalogue - search the IHR and other University of London libraries online.
- Awards, prizes and fellowships in history administered by the IHR.
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