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Since 2009 the IHR has produced over 800 podcasts, encompassing not only its acclaimed and unique seminar series, but also one-off talks and conferences. All of these recordings are freely available here to stream or download, and can be searched, or browsed by date, event, or subject. In many cases abstracts and other material accompanying the talks can also be found.

These recordings, particularly those taken from seminars where historians are showcasing their current research, provide a great opportunity to listen to experts in all fields of history discuss their work in progress. If you have any questions relating to the podcasts found here, please contact us.

5 Oct 2015

Magazines, gender, and hospitality in Canada and the US

Professor Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)
25 Jun 2015

Feelings at Work in the Long 1950s

Professor Claire Langhamer (Sussex)
15 Jun 2015

History of Riots launch

Keith Flett, John Newsinger and Sean Creighton
15 Jun 2015

Volunteer Tourism: Development, Altruism or Narcissism?

Jim Butcher (Canterbury Christ Church University)
26 May 2015

Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city

Dr Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading)
19 May 2015

Soviet Sport at the Fall of Communism

Manuel Veth (King's College London) and Dr Sevket Akyildiz (School of Oriental and African Studies)
12 May 2015

Why are we obsessed with the Nazis? The Third Reich in History and Memory: Sir Richard Evans and Sir Ian Kershaw in conversation with Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann

Sir Richard J. Evans, Wolfson College, Cambridge and Gresham College, London and Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield, in conversation with Professor Nikolaus Wachsman, Birkbeck, University of London
6 May 2015

Otto von Bismarck: A Bicentennial exhibition and lecture at the Institute of Historical Research

Lawrence Goldman (Director of the Institute of Historical Research) Dr Karina Urbach (IHR Senior Research Fellow) Peter Ammon (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Kingdom) Dr Ulf Morgenstern (Bismarck Foundation) Professor Jonathan
24 Mar 2015

Text Mining the History of Medicine

Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester University)
23 Mar 2015

The trouble with Gypsies in early modern England

Professor David Cressy (Ohio State)
21 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Session 5: Dissent

Richard Espley (Senate House Library), Linda Parker (Independent Scholar) and Sarah Jackson (Independent Scholar)
21 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Session 6: Air War

Roderick Bailey (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford) and Nina Hadaway (RAF Museum)
21 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Session 7: Leisure

Ruth Percy (Ruskin College, Oxford), Assaf Mond (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) and Rachel Richardson (Independent Scholar)
21 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Plenary Lecture 2

Jerry White (Birkbeck, University of London)
20 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Plenary Lecture 1

Adrian Gregory (Pembroke College, Oxford)
20 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Session 1: Daily Life and Institutions

Peter Hounsell (Independent Scholar) and James Wearn (Kew Gardens)
20 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Session 3: Communications and Transport

Simon Abernethy (Cambridge), Richard Dennis (University College London) and Krisztina Robert (Roehampton)
20 Mar 2015

London and the First World War - Session 4: Empire View

Elise Edmonds (State Library NSW Sydney, Australia) Anna Maguire (IWM and King's College London) and John Siblon (Birkbeck, University of London)
19 Mar 2015

History and Biography

Professor Lawrence Goldman (Director of the IHR)
18 Mar 2015

Disordered London? The view from Rosemary Lane

Dr Janice Turner (University of Hertfordshire)
17 Mar 2015

Archiving the Arts

Louise Piffero (The National Archives), Fleur Soper (The National Archives), Arike Oke (Rambert), Erin Lee (The National Theatre) and Alan Crookham (The National Gallery)

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