We are thrilled to share the 2026 Being Human Festival programme of over 230 events, taking place across the UK from 5 – 14 November. Here are a few highlights and what you can expect this year.

Exclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today

YouTube video by Science Museum

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YouTube video by Tower Museum

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

AN NPR SUMMER READING PICK “A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dange...

Cambridge Core - Global History - Absence in the Archives

Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief; This collection explores grief and memorialization through librarianship. International contributors highlight how information professionals contribute to dea...

The 'Voices' project works closely with descendant communities to understand potential uses of the reports of the 'Protector of Slaves'.

“These individual stories, we think, are very precious,” Professor Diana Paton said, as a project seeks to make slavery-era testimonies accessible in Guyana.