by admin | Jan 30, 2014 | Graduate Study
Are you thinking about studying History at Masters Level? The national research centre for History, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) are now offering three different Masters courses for you to choose from. MA Historical Research The IHR have long run a...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | Events
A guest post by Justin Bengry (Birkbeck/McGill) While numerous seminars at the Institute for Historical Research have long welcomed papers from historians of sex and sexuality, no single seminar provided for a broader dialogue on the subject across region, period and...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | The Social Scholar
The Social Scholar is a free public lunchtime seminar series run by the School of Advanced Study. Each seminar takes one aspect of social media or focuses on a specific social media tool or platform. This is the first of a series of posts archiving online what...
by bcoleman | Jul 8, 2013 | Events
From famine to feast, from grain riots to TV cookery programmes, dieting to domesticity, food features in almost every aspect of human societies since prehistoric times. At its annual summer conference in 2013 the Institute of Historical Research aims to showcase the...
by bcoleman | May 21, 2013 | Events
An exciting upcoming event this week. The Afterlife of Plutarch – 23 – 24 May 2013 This conference will address the uses of Plutarch’s historical and philosophical works by late antique, medieval and early modern scholars, writers and artists. It is by The...