Historical Research

Read Key Reasons to Submit your article, along with illustrative papers from the journal.

Selected Key Articles:

Secrecy, splendour and statecraft: the jewel accounts of King Henry III of England, 1216–72
Benjamin L. Wild

‘Not in any doubtfull dispute’? Reassessing the nomination of Richard Cromwell
Jonathan Fitzgibbons

From menace to celebrity: the English police detective and the press, c.1842–1914
Haia Shpayer-Makov

Bereaved and aggrieved: combat motivation and the ideology of sacrifice in the First World War
Alexander Watson, Patrick Porter

Deviation and discipline: anti-Trotskyism, Bolshevization and the Spanish Communist party, 1924–34
Tim Rees

Re-inventing the ‘moral economy’ in post-war Britain
Jim Tomlinson

The Pollard Prize 2012

We're pleased to announce the Joint Winners of the 2012 Annual Pollard Prize:

Samantha Sagui for the paper 'The Hue and Cry in English Towns'

and

Christopher Dillon for '"Tolerance Means Weakness": the Dachau Concentration Camp SS, Militarism, and Masculinity'

The Runner Up was Richard Blakemore with 'Thinking outside the gundeck: the navy, the maritime community, and the outbreak of civil war, 1625-1642'

All articles will be published in Historical Research.

The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. For more information, visit the IHR website.

Virtual Issues from Historical Research comprise articles on a particular topic or theme that have previously published in the journal.

Read the 2 most recent Virtual Issues below:

Previous Virtual Issues also available online:

Health in History

The History of India

The Institute of Historical Research is one of ten member Institutes of the School of Advanced Study, part of the University of London, and provides numerous resources for historians.

IHR Resources:

History SPOT
History SPOT presents podcasts from the internationally renowned research seminar programmes hosted by the IHR in an interactive and collaborative space.

IHR Digital
The IHR offers a wealth of digital resources, including the Connected Histories integrated search facility, launched in March 2011.

IHR Bookshop
The IHR publishes a selection of books on a variety of historical topics, including the IHR Conference Series - edited collections derived from conferences organised at or by UK universities.

For more information on all IHR resources and events, please visit the IHR website: