'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

In April 2026, the renovated Generator building opened its doors. Jill Vincent tells us about 100 days since that opening and about future plans.

Another video from Bob Trubshaw. He writes on YouTube: My maternal grandmother – known as a child as Dorothy Durran and in later life as Sar...

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A public music show - controversially held on a Sunday - led to a court case and political upheaval.

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What was the landscape of rural England like, over which many of the battles of the Civil Wars were fought? How did these fields and woods shape the armies’ tactics and influence the outcomes of ba…

A newly launched toolkit offers practical guidance to cultural heritage professionals and researchers on preserving fragile and outdated media formats.

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...

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