Institute of Historical Research

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.

Are you studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? 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

Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.

More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
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New free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.

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Our fantasic colleagues in @ihrlibrary.bsky.social 🤗

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Free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Migration and Mobility History The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

Wonderful paper yesterday from Nadia Joseph @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar on mobility, Apartheid, exile, & the personal and political. Next up, an exciting showcase of new research on migration in partnership with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social! 3rd Feb, book here: tinyurl.com/3bxsdy32

Contemporary British History The Contemporary British History seminar seeks to explore all aspects the recent past of the British Isles from a historical point of view.

We have got a great set of @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminars organised this term!

Our seminars are every other Wednesday, 5.30-7.00pm (GMT), at @ihr.bsky.social N304 or online.

They can all be seen and registered for here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Subscribe to the IHR Bulletin The IHR Bulletin is a monthly e-newsletter with updates on recent activities and what's coming up at the Institute. It's a good way to keep in touch online.

The IHR’s January bulletin is out now! Read about events, training, fellowships, jobs, workshops, and other news. To subscribe visit www.history.ac.uk/about-instit...

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Great to present our work (w. @melvinwevers.bsky.social) on applying "basic" ML to study historical visual culture at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar!

VERY EXCITING BOOK!

Come and discuss this VERY EXCITING BOOK with @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on 18 May @ihr.bsky.social!

and get your copy from @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

The course includes discussions with peers around writing and its challenges to encourage creative problem solving and to ensure that your writing reaches its highest potential.

Short Writing Course for PhD Students

In February, the IHR is hosting a 2 day intensive Short Writing Course for PhD Students designed for researchers in the humanities. The aim of this in-person training is to help you with your writing skills & craft with a particular emphasis on style and structure. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Heated Rivalry – Will the Jenrick-Farage team-up work out? Oh God, What Now? · Episode

The IHR's Izzy Conn is on the Oh God, What Now? podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social discussing how Keir Starmer ranks in the pantheon of Labour leaders.
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All 12 episodes of Izzy's Leading Labour series are now available. open.spotify.com/show/2k1Xn50...

Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.

More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Please note we have very limited access to BlueSky's chat & DMS.

If you need support with using BHO, please contact us via our contact form here:
www.british-history.ac.uk/contact-us

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration: tinyurl.com/24pxj5we
@lauragowing.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Panel on “Geologies of Planetary Histories”

Interested in #PlanetaryHistories?

Co-organised by EUI professors Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello, this seminar series returns on January 22 with a panel on Geologies of Planetary Histories.

📍 @ihr.bsky.social & Online
🔗 All details to the whole seminar: loom.ly/LXhG0d4

Update! Alongside the exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social also seeks to appoint a Printer in Residence to produce a contemporary response to the exhibition and to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the project: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @ies-sas.bsky.social

The Most Working Class Labour Government? The 1924 Ramsay MacDonald administration reassessed. The History & Policy Trades Union and Employment Forum is hosting this special in-person round table discussion of the first Labour government of 1924.

Last chance to book for this special in-person event @ihr.bsky.social tomorrow discussing the record and legacy of the first Labour Government of 1924. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Grey poster with the details of this term’s LSMS seminar. There is an image on the right hand side of a fragment of an early medieval Iraqi wall painting (OA+.10621) from the British Museum with a male face in black pigment looking right Text is as follows: LONDON SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES Winter 2026 Curating Medieval Islamic Art: Re-presenting Medieval 03 Islamicate Worlds Feb Anushka Hosain (Museum of Fine Art, Houston) & Helena Lahoz Kopiske (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid) Online 'Out of the Mouths of Babes': 17 Reassessing the Lost Miracle Statue Feb of Saint Rumwald at Boxley Abbey Lucy Beall Lott (St Andrews) The Castle in Fourteenth 03 Century Scotland: A Sociological Mar Study of Masculine Identity Isobel Barnard (King's College London) 17 Transforming Medical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Mar Bingen's Physica Lauren Cole (Northwestern University) 31 Harvesting water: traditional ecological knowledge Mar from Medieval Spain in practice and in research Camila Marcone (Yale) ALL WELCOME! Please book via bit.ly/londonmedieval INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Tuesdays, 17.30 Institute of Historical Research

LSMS winter programme 2025/26 ft. researchers across the 🌎 speaking on medieval art/environment/medicine/architecture

Tuesdays, 17:30 (GMT) at the @ihr.bsky.social in Bloomsbury or on Zoom.

All welcome, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

#medievalsky #skystorians

Job Applications in History: A Panel Discussion Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

The Job Applications in History panel discussion on 4 Feb 2-4pm is now a hybrid session. Book your place to attend in person or over Zoom. #ResearchTraining www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thanks for flagging this. We've been able to make this a hybrid session which will, hopefully, make it a bit more accessible. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Contemporary British History The Contemporary British History seminar seeks to explore all aspects the recent past of the British Isles from a historical point of view.

Our programme for this term's @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminars at @ihr.bsky.social is now available! Please do join us in-person or online.

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Abolishing the transatlantic trade: a moral problem

I'm talking about the British Abolitionists and why they weren't quite as great as we make them out to be at the @ihr.bsky.social in London next Wednesday: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you're in London, come!

Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...

Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social

'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians

Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...

Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII

Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians

Dr Elizabeth Savage named the American Printing History Association’s Individual Laureate for 2026 Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Savage, Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications at the Institute of Historical Research and Head of Academic Research Engagement at Senat

Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Savage from the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social) and Senate House Library (@senatehouselib.bsky.social) who has been named the American Printing History Association's Individual Laureate for 2026. 🎉

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Researching the History of Emotions Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
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Delighted to welcome Erkki Tuomioja, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and his colleagues from Historians Without Borders to @ihr.bsky.social this afternoon to discuss collaboration with their network of scholars.