Historical Research

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 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:

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The Pollard Prize 2011

The winner of The 2011 Annual Pollard Prize is

Siobhan Talbott with 'British commercial interests on the French Atlantic coast, c.1560-1713’

The article will be published in Historical Research in 2012.

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.

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The IHR @ 90

In 2011 the Institute of Historical Research turns 90 - the oldest such Institute in the world.

To mark its 90th birthday, the IHR is hosting a year-long celebration of other notable milestones of 1921.

The History PhD: Past, Present and Future
Podcasts coming soon

The Birth of the Birth Control Clinic
11 March 2011

Lord Asa Briggs: A Celebration
19 May 2011

Princes Consort in History
16 December 2011

Did you miss The Changing Face of War Online Conference?

Conference papers, discussions and access to over 100 articles available FREE online until March 2012.

Read specially commissioned commentaries and post your own comments for discussion on the following Historical Research paper:

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

Interested in Submitting to Historical Research?

Read a selection of illustrative articles, along with key reasons to submit your paper.

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Health in History: A Special Multimedia Virtual Issue

Read the latest Virtual Issue on Health in History, produced in conjunction with the Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2011, featuring podcasts of lectures from the conference along with key articles from past issues of Historical Research:

The previous Virtual Issue on The History of India is also available online.

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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