Surviving the PhD Process as a Self-Funded Student

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE

In this post, Dr Eilish Gregory, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Historical Society and an early career researcher, offers an account of her own personal experience of studying her PhD as a self-funded student. While there were many scholarly and personal...

LGBT+ Archives, Networks and Heritage

by | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Resources

This page lists some academic and professional groups and networks for LGBT+ historians, and histories, museums, archives and major collections of LGBT+ history. These range from small community projects to large national institutions. If you would like to recommend...

Historical photographs as sensitive sources: questions and challenges

by | 07 Sep 2020 | Guest Posts

  Digitisation projects, as well as the rise in the use of social media by libraries, heritage organisations and authors are widening access to visual historical materials. But what are the risks of making images of vulnerable people, including medical patients...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH): A Guide for Teachers and Students

by | 29 Jun 2020 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (known as ‘BBIH’) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date record of what’s been published in British and Irish history.  It currently includes records of 620,000 books, journal articles, edited collections, book chapters...

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...