UKRI Open Access protocols: August 2021

by Administrator | 11 Aug 2021 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications, RHS Work

On 6 August, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) published its long-awaited report on its future approach to Open Access publishing. UKRI is the overarching body responsible for government research strategy and funding for universities in the UK. It brings together...

The Future of (Teaching) the Past

by royalhistsoc | 28 May 2021 | General, Guest Posts

What happens when a university lab-based Digital History module goes online due to lockdown? You might think the imposed digital switch would be straightforward for ‘born digital’ digital history students. But as Dr Jessica van Horssen of Leeds Beckett...

Historians on ‘Contested Heritage’

by royalhistsoc | 27 May 2021 | Guest Posts, RHS Work

In March the Royal Historical Society was one of six institutional signatories to a letter calling on government to clarify its attitude towards and involvement in areas of ‘contested heritage’. The letter highlighted ministers’ increasing attempts...

Creating an Online Community: A Pre-Pandemic Initiative

by Katherine Foxhall | 22 Apr 2021 | General, Guest Posts

Professor Marjory Harper won the 2020 RHS Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here, she reflects on the process of planning an online Master’s Programme in Scottish Heritage in 2017. Launching in July 2023, the Jinty Nelson...

From Conference to Collaboration – Publishing an Edited Collection

by royalhistsoc | 02 Mar 2021 | Guest Posts

What’s involved in turning a set of conference papers into an edited collection? Dr Patrick Low, Helen Rutherford & Dr Clare Sandford Couch, the co-editors of Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual take us...

Smiling in the Age of Coronavirus

by royalhistsoc | 15 Dec 2020 | Guest Posts

Colin Jones, author of The Smile Revolution in eighteenth-century Paris (Oxford University Press, 2014) and former President of the Royal Historical Society considers the long history of smiling, and asks what the future might hold for this most expressive of gestures...