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...

Teaching Soviet History from the Borderlands: A Case Study of Belarus and Ukraine

by | 30 Jan 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  How can we ‘decolonise the curriculum’ when it comes to the history of the Soviet Union? How do we decentralise our historical approach to former-Soviet states? In this post Natalya Chernyshova discusses the importance of these questions for modern...

History and memory in the 21st century

by | 16 Jan 2024 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Work

  In this post we hear from Lucy Noakes, Rab Butler Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and—from January 2024—President-Elect of the Royal Historical Society.   A specialist in the history of modern Britain, Lucy researches the experience and...

Preparing for REF 2029

by | 12 Dec 2023 | Advocacy and Policy, General, REF2029

  Historians working in UK Higher Education will be very familiar with the ‘REF’ or Research Excellence Framework. REF is the means by which research, and the environment in which research takes place, is assessed across the higher education sector at seven-year...

WEB ACCESS TO BRITISH LIBRARY DATABASES: WORKAROUNDS for historians

by | 29 Nov 2023 | General

  On 28 October 2023, the British Library was subject to a major cyberattack, entailing a near complete shutdown of the Library’s web-based services. Staff at the British Library are continuing to work extremely hard to restore services that are vital for...