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We are very very excited to be hosting Ren Pepitone today! Ren will be speaking on BBC Radio London, localism and amateur dramatics in the 1970s. Can't wait. Join us @5.30pm online or at the IHR! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Amateur Actors and Local Radio: A Counternarrative to CommercializationBritain at Home and Abroad since 1800 Seminarwww.history.ac.uk

This evening! Join us for a BIG conversation on Britain's historical relationship to charity, decolonisation and development.

This Thursday, heavy hitter Hilton speaks on his exciting new book on charity, empire, decolonisation - with an incredible line-up of roundtable participants. See details below. Don't miss it! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c.... In person or online, join us @5.30pm: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book launch of Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and DevelopmentBritain at Home and Abroad since 1800 Seminarwww.history.ac.uk

TONIGHT! Online and in person! Join us for Bobby Phe Amis presenting new research on 'Left behind: compensation, migration and the Overseas Services Resettlement Bureau, 1958 - 1981'

Next Thursday, 30 April, 5.30-7pm... Join us (online or in person) with Bobby Phe Amis offering wonderful new perspective on postimperial Britain, welfare and the managed return of colonial service officers! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Left behind: compensation, migration and the Overseas Services Resettlement Bureau, 1958 - 1981www.history.ac.uk

Check out our exciting summer line-up of speakers! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Britain at Home and AbroadThis seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.www.history.ac.uk

Join us for another exciting paper TONIGHT 5.30pm online or in person in IHR Seminar Room N304: Jessi Gilchrist (KCL) will be discussing her doctoral research into the history of border-making in the interwar Middle East. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Enforcing Lines in the Sand: British Egypt, Italian Libya, and the quest to build desert boundaries during the interwar yearswww.history.ac.uk

TONIGHT! Online and in person - the great Dr Rob Saunders speaks on the Third Reform Act and the making of British Democracy at 5.30pm! Join us! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"Democracy has come!" The Third Reform Act and the making of British Democracywww.history.ac.uk

HERE IT IS! We are super excited to share our 2025/26 spring programme! Mark your calendars for some exciting new research in modern British history... www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... First up! QMUL's Dr Rob Saunders on DEMOCRACY on 29 January. Online or in person at the IHR. See you there.

Britain at Home and AbroadThis seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.www.history.ac.uk

Highlight from last semester!

Please join us tomorrow - in person or online - for a talk from QUB's Patrick Thompson on his new research on *British perceptions of the Northern Irish civil rights movement.* We are really looking forward to this!

Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisationThis session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.www.history.ac.uk

Join us tomorrow 5.30pm at the IHR or online (link below). We're super excited to host Dr Scott Anthony on the history of arts funding! All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

‘I will take money for the arts from murderers, from rapists, from anybody’: The British state as cultural patronThis paper examines the growth of arts policy in post-war Britain.www.history.ac.uk

Excited for our final talk of this academic year tomorrow evening -- @imperialhistorian.bsky.social will be speaking on "The Photographic Archive of Multiculturalism". This event is fully online and you can sign up to attend on Teams here: www.history.ac.uk/events/photo...

The Photographic Archive of Multiculturalismwww.history.ac.uk

Please note that the event on 29 May is fully online, but the seminar on 15 May is hybrid, so you can either watch (and ask questions!) online, or come along to the IHR to hang with us in-person.

Our short-but-sweet summer term schedule is now up on the IHR website! Two seminars: one, on 15 May, a hybrid event with @riakapoor.bsky.social, and one, on 29 May, an online talk from @imperialhistorian.bsky.social. All welcome!!! For abstracts and to sign up, click on the link:

Our substack has just gone out with the term details in it. We promise not to write any 7,500 word thinkpieces about the State of the Field of mOdERn brITisH hiSTtoRy if you sign up here: britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com

Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 | SubstackThe newsletter of the Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 IHR seminar. Click to read Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com

THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...

Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78www.history.ac.uk

Hi everyone! Our spring term programme is now up on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri... Thanks to the help of the IHR, all of these sessions are offered hybrid: so you can sign up to attend online, or come along in person.

Britain at Home and AbroadThis seminar covers all aspects of modern British history – social, cultural, political and economic.www.history.ac.uk

Looking forward to our final seminar of this year — we are hosting @historianhelen.bsky.social talking about her research on Planning for Retirement in Postwar Britain. All welcome: it’s a hybrid session so either come along to the IHR or sign up on the website to dial in remotely!