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Latest podcast now available

The 'Special Seminar Commemorating a Century of Councils for Voluntary Service', part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar series, is now available as a podcast. Click here to listen to all four papers.

Teachers of History 2010

Teachers of History 2010 has now been published. It includes details of more than 3,000 people teaching history in the universities of the United Kingdom and, for the first time, the Republic of Ireland. Buy your copy from the IHR's online bookshop or call in at the School of Advanced Study bookshop, room 265, Senate House.

New IHR Fellows

Former SAS Dean Sir Roderick Floud and recently retired IHR librarian Robert Lyons are among the new Fellows approved last month by the Institute's Advisory Council. See here for further details.

The IHR welcomes new Librarian

The IHR is delighted to welcome Jennifer Higham, BA (Oxon), MA (UCL), as the new IHR Librarian and Senate House Library Subject Librarian for History. Jennifer joins us from Lambeth Palace Library, having worked previously at University College London and King's College London.

Professor Miles Taylor: Inaugural Lecture

The Vice-Chancellor is delighted to announce that Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the IHR, will deliver his inaugural lecture on 24 February 2010. The lecture, entitled ‘The dominion of history: the export of historical research from Britain since 1850’, will take place at 6.00pm in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House. Please contact the Director's Office for further information.

Global History seminar series 2010

Beginning in February 2010, and presented by the IHR, the University of Notre Dame and the History Department of the University of Warwick, the Global History seminar 2010 will explore global aspects of Trust, Technology, Racism, The Consumption of Culture, Environmental History and Music and Culture. For further details click here.

Environments: the 79th Anglo American Conference of Historians, 1-2 July 2010

Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace. Next year’s Anglo-American conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today.

Study at the Institute of Historical Research – Britain’s national centre for history

The IHR offers MA degrees in Historical Research as well as PhD opportunities. Click here for details.