Website: https://www.history.ac.uk

Twitter: @ihr_history

Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk  

Key people: Claire Langhammer (director)

Key expertise and roles

The Institute of Historical Research was founded in 1921 and is one of nine institutes that comprise the University of London's School of Advanced Study. The IHR is dedicated to training the next generation of historians, and to producing and facilitating ambitious, innovative historical research.

The Institute helps foster public understanding of history and its social, cultural, and economic importance, advocating for the long-term future of the discipline and supporting its growth and development. It offers a wide range of services both onsite and remotely that facilitate excellence in historical research, teaching and scholarship in the UK, through our library, events programmes, fellowships, training and publications. 

The IHR is a leading centre for the creation of digital resources for historians, and promotes the study of people and locality through our Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. 

As the national centre for history, the Institute of Historical Research’s mission is to:

• champion the value and importance of history;  
• enable and nurture the current and next generation of historians, wherever they are to be found 
• support the historical community through the care and development of our important library and archive collections, our publications and our digital resources;
• facilitate and produce ambitious and innovative historical research; 
• connect, listen to and advocate for historians, mobilising our unique national intellectual and professional networks; 
• engage and include scholars and the public in historical research in all its diversity and richness.