Race Update 8 – Reflections on a year as Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellow working on Race, Ethnicity and Equality in UK History
This blog reflects on my role as Past and Present Fellow working on Race, Ethnicity and Equality in UK History with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research over the past year. What is a PhD in History? Why are you doing a PhD in History?...
From Margins to Centre?: An Undergraduate Conference on Marginalised Histories
On 28 February the University of York hosted a one-day conference to explore marginalised histories and the intersectionality between them, with a particular focus on LGBT+ history, women's history, BME history, and history of disability. The event was aimed...
Curriculum Conference Report
From 23-30 April 2020, the RHS hosted its first Virtual Curriculum conference. The event had originally been designed as a one-day workshop to be held in the RHS offices on 23 April. Instead, registered participants were invited to read, watch and listen to a range of...
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH): A Guide for Teachers and Students
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (known as ‘BBIH’) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date record of what’s been published in British and Irish history. It currently includes records of 620,000 books, journal articles, edited collections, book chapters...
Race Update 7 – RHS Virtual Workshop on the impact of the Covid Crisis on BME Student Admissions in Higher Education, 18 June 2020
On the 18 June 2020, RHS hosted a Zoom discussion on predicted grades, university admissions and BME students, using History as an exemplar case. Following the government decision to cancel summer examinations, this year’s GCSE and A-Level grades will be predicted by...
Professor Sarah Hamilton – A Virtual Lecture and Q&A
"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 deliver her...
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...
