Institute of Historical Research

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.