by royalhistsoc | 02 Sep 2020 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Online Resources
Research is at the core of a historian’s day-to-day life. From undergraduates and postgraduates completing final-year dissertations to practised scholars editing their book manuscripts, the current climate has certainly caused difficulties. How can we conduct research...
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...
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...
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...
by royalhistsoc | 04 May 2020 | Guest Posts, Online Events
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...