by bcoleman | Jan 27, 2014 | Events
The arrival of the Huguenots in Britain and their importance to the domestic silk industry is well known. The French refugees took with them new weaving skills, new designs, and a large workforce. As a result, the English silk industry was able to compete with France...
by bcoleman | Jan 13, 2014 | Events
The Holocaust Memorial Day event is hosted by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research. In this Holocaust Memorial Day lecture, the renowned historian, Professor Timothy Snyder asks, “What was special...
by aseifert | May 2, 2013 | Research & Resources
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) operates an online research training website called History SPOT. This website includes a wide range of digital research training packages for historians. One of the courses available on the History Spot is Designing...
by agnieszkagillespie | Feb 25, 2013 | Features
Food and migration: Anglo-American History Food travels. I once watched an Italian colleague cringe when a Korean friend suggested that children in his country wanted to eat American food such as pizza… What the world today knows as pizza is the product of a...
by bcoleman | Feb 19, 2013 | Research & Resources
Former SAS-Space manager and now engagement and liaison lead for the web archiving team at the British Library, Dr Peter Webster, has written a fascinating blog about electronically preserving private papers of historians. Peter argues that “there is yet more scope...