Expertise Unbound? The state and its use of specialists in times of crisis
In this post, published simultaneously with the IHR, Christopher Phillips, whose book Civilian Specialists at War has just been published in our New Historical Perspectives open access book series, draws comparisons between specialist involvement in the current...
RHS Whitfield Book Prize – The 2020 Shortlist
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...
RHS Gladstone Book Prize – The 2020 Shortlist
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 specialism...
Launching the RHS COVID-19 Hardship Grants for ECR Historians
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
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...
A rapid-turnaround online conference
Early in March, it became clear to the organisers of the Science in the City 1500-1800 conference that their event could not go ahead as planned in early April. So they took it online. In this post, Dr Rebekah Higgitt shares her experience of rapidly re-thinking a...
Recognising History Teaching in Schools
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 take...
Race Update 6 – ‘Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK: State of the Nation’ Report by Runnymede, Ethnicity UK, Policy Press
Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK: State of the Nation is a partnership between Runnymede and the CoDE at the University of Manchester. It is edited by Bridget Byrne, Claire Alexander, Omar Khan, James Nazroo and William Shankley and includes fourteen academics...
Past Time: A Learning Resource about Victorian Prisons
Historians and specialists in Arts in criminal justice settings have developed a learning resource to bring prison history and archival materials alive through creative methods. In this guest post, Hilary Marland describes the process of collaborating with a theatre...
Working for Historians—notwithstanding COVID-19
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...
Race Update 5 – Grade Predictions and Assessment during Covid-19
Following the government decision to cancel summer examinations, this year’s GCSE and A-Level grades will be predicted by teachers and normalised by a nationally applied formula.
Room for Zoom? Tips for Securing Online Meetings
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?
