by royalhistsoc | 18 Jun 2020 | Online Events, RHS Work
“Responding to Violence: Liturgy, Authority and Sacred Places c.900-c.1100” Professor Sarah Hamilton was due to give her lecture in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL, London on Friday 1 May. As COVID-19 made this impossible, she agreed to...
by royalhistsoc | 19 May 2020 | RHS Work
The 2020 Shortlist for the RHS Whitfield Prize is announced today. “This year’s Whitfield Prize shortlist is exceptionally strong. Every one of these titles displays British or Irish History at its best: innovative in approach, extensively researched, critically...
by royalhistsoc | 12 May 2020 | RHS Work
The 2020 Shortlist for the RHS Gladstone Prize is announced today. “Selecting a shortlist from the very strong field of monographs submitted was no easy task. The titles shortlisted were chosen because they either pushed the boundaries of their own areas of...
by royalhistsoc | 07 May 2020 | RHS Work
The Royal Historical Society (RHS) has today launched an emergency funding scheme for postgraduate and early career historians, the second of two initiatives from the RHS in response to the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Margot Finn introduces the...
by royalhistsoc | 07 May 2020 | RHS Work
Each year, the Royal Historical Society aims to support around 200 UK-based early career researchers (of any nationality) with grant awards totalling just over £60,000. COVID-19 is having a major impact on the scholars we would normally fund. Here, RHS President...
by royalhistsoc | 30 Apr 2020 | RHS Work, Teaching Portal
In 2018, as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, the Royal Historical Society committed to supporting the Historical Association’s Quality Mark scheme, by providing sponsored bursaries to enable more state-funded, non-selective secondary schools to...