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?
Race Update 4 – EDI concerns during Covid-19
No one has answers to the ongoing Covid-19 situation but this blog suggests some questions that we might ask ourselves and invites your feedback too re History in Higher Education.
Beyond LGBT+ History Month – an update on the RHS survey.
As many of you will remember, last year the RHS ran their LGBT+ Histories and Historians survey. Professor Frances Andrews provides an update on the working group’s progress.
Taradiddles. Or, lies in a post-truth society
There is nothing new in our lack of trust in information and facts. But how does this affect archives and researchers? Julia Sheppard, Chair of the British Records Association, considers some of the questions that have arisen in recent events.
Race Update 3 – Advance HE Positive Action Checklist
Institutions in England, Wales or Northern Ireland explore creative approaches to tackling underrepresentation of specific protected groups in a collaborative programme called “Increasing Diversity”.
