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Press Release: A Knighthood for David Cannadine
The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce that Professor David Cannadine, DLitt, FBA, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List in recognition of his services to scholarship. Click here to read full press release.
RHS Bibliography update
The Royal Historical Society Bibliography's latest update was released on 22 December. See here for further details.
New issue: History in Focus – Welfare
The latest issue of History in Focus, on ‘Welfare’, is now available. It examines approaches to welfare provision – from the 18th to the 20th century, in Europe, Africa, Asia and America – through a range of original articles, book and website reviews and bibliographies. This issue is available online here.
New Book: European Religious Cultures: Essays Offered to Christopher Brooke on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
European Religious Cultures is a set of stimulating essays which address a variety of practices in religious life and situate them within the life-cycles and social relations of medieval Europeans. Click here to visit the bookshop.
Making History: the changing face of the profession in Britain
The IHR is pleased to announce the launch of its Making History website, providing a guide to the development of the profession and discipline of history in Britain over the last hundred years and more. It details major individuals, organisations, projects, journals and themes in history, and features around seventy specially commissioned articles, interviews with current historians, images, statistics and more. The website is the outcome of a one-year project funded by the University of London Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund, and can be found at www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory.
Grants for History 2009: A Guide to Funding
The 2009 edition of Grants for History is now available from the IHR bookshop (£15 plus postage). This invaluable guide provides historians with the most up-to-date information about financial resources available from the UK and overseas for historical and affiliated research activities.
Complete Calendars of State Papers Online
British History Online is pleased to announce that 200 volumes in the AHRC-funded State Papers project are now live. The goal of the project is to complete the digitisation of the Calendars of State Papers, in order to make these important documents freely accessible to the academic community and the general public alike. For more information, please visit the IHR news page.
Cities: the 78th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, 2-3 July 2009
For 10,000 years cities have shaped the affairs of mankind. Now, more than half of the world's population is urban, dwelling in settlements that we identify as 'city' or 'town', some of them so extensive and so complex that they seem to transcend traditional notions of urban organisation and form.
To find out more about the Anglo-American conference 2009, please visit the conference website. There are also opportunities for students to get involved.