Race Update 8 – Reflections on a year as Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellow working on Race, Ethnicity and Equality in UK History

by shahmimaakhtar | 15 Jul 2020 | Race Update

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?...

Launching the RHS COVID-19 Hardship Grants for ECR Historians

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...

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

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...

Working for Historians—notwithstanding COVID-19

by royalhistsoc | 16 Apr 2020 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

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...

Getting Heads Together: Reflections on the first RHS History HoDs Meeting

by | 10 Oct 2019 | RHS Work

What’s it like to head up a History department? What challenges and opportunities do History HoDs face, and what’s the best way of responding to them? In May 2019, over 20 Heads of UK History departments gathered under the auspices of the RHS to compare notes, share...