King Oswald’s Raven: Public Engagement During the Coronavirus Pandemic

by | 10 Nov 2020 | Guest Posts

In late March, three days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first national lockdown in response to COVID-19, a funding application that Johanna Dale and her academic and creative partners had worked hard on, was automatically rejected as funding streams...

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

by | 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...

Launching the RHS COVID-19 Hardship Grants for ECR Historians

by | 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...

Bringing Archives to Early Career Historians: A New Partnership with Adam Matthew Digital

by | 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...

A rapid-turnaround online conference

by | 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...