RHS Gladstone Book Prize – The 2020 Shortlist

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...

Launching the RHS COVID-19 Hardship Grants for ECR Historians

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...

Bringing Archives to Early Career Historians: A New Partnership with Adam Matthew Digital

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...

Recognising History Teaching in Schools

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...

Working for Historians—notwithstanding COVID-19

by royalhistsoc | 16 Apr 2020 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

Although the Royal Historical Society, in keeping with government guidance, has closed its physical office for the time being, RHS President Margot Finn outlines the ways in which we continue to work for historians in and beyond the UK. COVID-19 has inevitably...

Room for Zoom? Tips for Securing Online Meetings

by Katherine Foxhall | 02 Apr 2020 | RHS Work

What steps can we take to help ensure that our online conversations and personal data are secure, in a period of rapid and unplanned change? This blog post is a product of ongoing discussions at the RHS about how best to modernise our communications while keeping our...