Conversion and the Purposes of Mission in Protestant History

by | 30 Mar 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

    If you were a missionary, what constitutes a genuine ‘conversion’? How can you be confident that the people you seek to convert are not deceiving you, or themselves? In this post Professor Alec Ryrie and Dr David Trim introduce ‘Four...

UKRI Open Access Policy for the Arts and Humanities: FAQs

by | 28 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Online Resources, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE

    In August 2021  UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) announced its future policy regarding Open Access publishing. UKRI is the overarching body responsible for government research strategy and funding for universities in the UK. It brings together the...

Sir Tony Wrigley (1931-2022), Remembered by Simon Szreter

by | 22 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  In this post, Professor Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) considers the career and work of the historian Sir Tony Wrigley FBA who sadly died in February 2022. One of Britain’s most important and influential social and economic historians, Tony...

History for Ukraine: 48+ historians, 24 hours

by | 21 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  History for Ukraine takes place on Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th March. Over 24 hours — starting at 12 noon on Saturday 26th — more than 48 historians and genealogists from the UK, Europe, Australasia and North America will each speak for...

Justifying the arts in early modern Britain

by | 16 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  What value did people place on the arts in post-Reformation Britain? And what was the role of the clergy in sponsoring musical performance in particular? In this post, Dr Hannah Yip explores the justification and championing of early modern artistic endeavour...

Objects of Sovereignty: Thinking through Restitution

by | 21 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

There are currently many thousands of artefacts held in UK museums and other public collections. Devolving Restitution is a series of six workshops to explore the histories of African artefacts in local museums and heritage institutions, and to discuss their...