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Expertise Unbound? The state and its use of specialists in times of crisis

Expertise Unbound? The state and its use of specialists in times of crisis

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jun 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications

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...
Co-production, Crowd-sourcing & the History of Railway Casualties

Co-production, Crowd-sourcing & the History of Railway Casualties

by | 12 Nov 2019 | Guest Posts

The Railway Work, Life & Death project has been  using crowd-sourcing and working with volunteers to co-produce research questions and topics. In this post for the RHS, the project team of Karen Baker, Mike Esbester and Helen Ford share a great example of how...
Charting a Course: From Shock Cities to Sexy Sailors (and Pilgrim Fathers)

Charting a Course: From Shock Cities to Sexy Sailors (and Pilgrim Fathers)

by minifuma15 | 09 Jul 2019 | RHS Publications

Tom Hulme is author of After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship, available now in the RHS Studies on History Series with Boydell and Brewer. In this post for the Historical Transactions blog, he considers how the threads from that...
Writing a History Textbook: Seven Things I’ve Learnt

Writing a History Textbook: Seven Things I’ve Learnt

by | 20 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Matthew McCormack has recently finished writing Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688-1928.  A textbook aimed at the student market, it will be published by Routledge in June 2019. In this post for Historical Transactions, Matthew shares how the process differed...
The RHS & the Bibliography of British & Irish History

The RHS & the Bibliography of British & Irish History

by | 18 Jun 2018 | RHS Publications

Prof. Leslie Howsam explores the Royal Historical Society’s role in the development of history publishing, and examines the history of our Bibliography of British & Irish History. History was not always a field of study based on rigorous research in...

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