Introducing the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP)

by | 03 Jul 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Library and Archive, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  In this post Dr Vincent Hiribarren introduces the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP), which seeks to preserve and digitise archives in regions that lack the necessary resources to do so. He discusses the opportunities this program provides for historians...

10 Tips for Getting Your Monograph Published

by | 27 Jun 2024 | General, RHS Work

    On Friday 14 June 2024 the Royal Historical Society hosted a training workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians: ‘Getting Published: A Guide to Monograph Publishing’.  The event brought together editors and academics to demystify...

A Balanced Argument? Communicating the Power of Argument to History Undergraduates

by | 14 May 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

  In March 2024, the Royal Historical Society visited historians at the Universities of York and York St John. The event included a panel discussion on the subject of communicating History to different audiences. In this post, Dr Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John)...

Hit songs in seventeenth-century England

by | 09 Apr 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  What makes for a hit song? In this post Christopher Marsh introduces the 100 Ballads project, a study of the most successful broadside ballads of seventeenth-century England. ‘100 Ballads’ was released online earlier this year. It brings together...

REF2029 AND OPEN ACCESS: A GUIDE TO THE CURRENT PROPOSALS FOR PUBLICATIONS

by | 26 Mar 2024 | General

  The UK’s four higher education funding bodies are currently planning the terms of the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) which is due to conclude in 2029. In mid-March, REF2029 announced a consultation relating to its Open Access Policy. The policy...

Who reads history blogs?

by | 07 Feb 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  Digital communications are central to how we communicate, debate, teach and assess understanding of the past. In this post, David Geiringer goes back to one of the earliest, and most resilient, of these formats — the blog — to consider its...