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The Royal Historical Society (RHS) is delighted to announce the award of six Masters’ Scholarships, each worth £5000, to students from groups underrepresented in academic History, who will begin an MA degree at a UK university, 2022-23.

The Masters’ Scholarships seek to address underrepresentation and encourage Black and Asian students to consider academic research in History. By doing so, we hope to improve the educational experience of six early career historians engaging in a further degree from September 2022.

The scheme initially intended to offer four Scholarships in 2022; however, the quality of applications was such that awards are being made to a further two students for this inaugural year. Five of these awards will be supported by the Society. We are extremely grateful to an anonymous donor who will fund the sixth scholarship.

The Society received many strong applications from students from underrepresented groups looking to train as historians. The Masters’ programme will continue in 2023 with a new round of awards, and we hope other organisations will join with us to ensure more Masters’ students may be funded in 2023-24.

The six recipients of this year’s Scholarships will study, full- or part-time, for MAs in History at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Nottingham, the School of Oriental and African Studies, Strathclyde and University College London. Recipients will also become Postgraduate members of the RHS.

 

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to offer this first set of Masters’ Scholarships, and to provide additional financial support to six talented early career historians as they progress to postgraduate study.

This year’s programme has made clear the very real need for such support. The Society will continue the scheme for 2023-24, and we now seek ways to assist more students from underrepresented groups to consider and pursue a Masters’ course in History. By collaborating with partner organisations, we can help to address the inequalities that prevent many talented undergraduate historians from continuing in higher education.

We wish this year’s six recipients well in their studies, and look forward to welcoming them in the Society and hearing more about their work in the coming months. We are also extremely grateful to the generous donor who has made possible a sixth award in 2022.

Professor Emma Griffin, President of the Royal Historical Society

 

Individuals and organisations interested in partnering with the Society for the 2023 programme, in whatever way they can, are welcome to get in touch: president@royalhistsoc.org. Further details of the Masters’ Scholarships programme are available here.

 

At its latest meeting on 6 July 2022, the RHS Council elected 56 Fellows, 68 Associate Fellows, 32 Members and 50 Postgraduate Members, a total of 206 people newly associated with the Society. We welcome them all.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include archivists, broadcasters, curators, public servants and teachers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the United States.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from broadcasting, archives, civil service and local government, museums and teaching.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as curators, engineers, film-makers, research scientists and teachers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 36 different universities in the UK, China, France, Greece, India, New Zealand and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

July 2022 sees the admission of our fourth set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two new membership categories introduced in late 2021. These changes to membership (about which you can read more here) enable more historians to join the fellowship, and facilitate more focused support for RHS members at the start of their careers.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to Monday 22 August 2022, with the next closing date being Monday 31 October 2022. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member), the benefits of membership (including new benefits added from July 2022), deadlines for applications throughout 2022, and how to apply, are available here.

 

New RHS Fellows, elected July 2022

• Thomas Almeroth-Williams
• Jennifer Aston
• Rachel Bright
• Sean Campbell
• Helen Carr
• Clare Copley
• Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
• Kristie Dean
• David Egan
• Paul Fantom
• Lachlan Fleetwood
• Nicholas Fogg
• Cheryl Fury
• Jake Griesel
• John Harney
• Laura Harrison
• Yitzhak Hen
• Louise Heren
• Sarah Holland
• Andrew Jackson
• Claire Jones
• James Kennaway
• Raghav Kishore
• Andrew Laird
• Felix Larkin
• Lauren Lauret
• Andrew Leach
• Patrick Leary
• Ronan Lee
• Jack Lennon
• Laura Mair
• Chris Monaghan
• Stephen Morgan
• Christopher Morton
• John Mueller
• Sherzod Muminov
• Clive Norris
• Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
• Patricia Owens
• Dahlia Porter
• Luke Reynolds
• Alasdair Richardson
• Louis Roper
• Lesa Scholl
• Iris Shagrir
• Mahnaz Shah
• Julia Sheppard
• Claudia Siebrecht
• Dan Snow
• Angela Stienne
• Rebecca Thomas
• Lik Hang Tsui
• Joris van den Tol
• Lukas M. Verburgt
• Tyler Wentzell
• Annie Whitehead

New RHS Associate Fellows, elected July 2022

• Adeyemi Akande
• Keith Alcorn
• Caroline Angus
• Daniel Armstrong
• Katherine Arnold
• Natasha Bailey
• Cezara Bobeica
• Emily Brady
• Stephanie Brown
• Moa Carlsson
• James Carroll
• Marcus Colla
• Alexander Corrigan
• James Daly
• Stephen Donnachie
• Melvin Douglass
• George Evans-Hulme
• Christopher Fevre
• Jeremy Filet
• Jeremiah Garsha
• Owen Gower
• Simon Graham
• William Green
• Michael Hahn
• Hannah Halliwell
• Amanda Harvey
• Nathan Hood
• Daniel Hunt
• Polina Ignatova
• Marina Ini’
• Paul Jones
• Taushif Kara
• Mike Kearsley
• Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
• Percy Pok Lai Leung
• Liam Liburd
• Nicolo Paolo Ludovice
• Patrick McGhee
• Olivia Mitchell
• Louise Moon
• P.G. Morgan
• Colm Murphy
• David Needham
• Monica O’Brien
• Patrick O’Halloran
• Aoife O’Leary McNeice
• Cullum Parker
• Calum Platts
• Sasha Rasmussen
• Anna Reeve
• Caroline Reyer
• Helen Rutherford
• Stéphane Sadoux
• Charlote Scott
• Nari Shelekpayev
• James Smith
• Yury Sorochkin
• Angie Sutton-Vane
• Erika Tiburcio Moreno
• James Tipney
• Anna Tulliach
• Elizabeth Tunstall
• Rosalind White
• Duncan Wood
• Brett Woods
• Sarah Wride
• Vanessa Wright
• Victoria Yuskaitis

New RHS Members, elected July 2022

• Alaa Almansour
• Cristian Amza
• Alan Archer
• George Bickers
• Carl Buck
• Camilla Bullough
• Juan Pedro Carricondo
• Jackson Chak Sang Chan
• David Cohen
• Camille Depeige
• Wallace Ferguson
• Matthew Garland
• Daria Golova
• Peter Gruender
• Frances Hatlee
• Mark Hatlee
• Zita Holbourne
• Lee Hollingsworth
• Lawrence Lewis
• Stephanie Mackay
• Steve Maddern
• Max Preston
• Lee Price
• David Ransted
• Kirstie Roper
• Andrew Sinclair
• Shreya Singh
• James Threlkeld
• Matthew Travis
• Toni Webster
• Jing Zhi Wong
• Sirui Yao

New RHS Postgraduate Members, elected July 2022

• Sue Adams
• Isobel Ashby
• Jacob Baxter
• Daniel Beaumont
• Morgan Breene
• Elysia Cains
• Ciara Chivers
• Nick Clifton
• Rosalyn Cousins
• Lou Docherty
• Katherine Eckelmann
• Stuart Falconer
• Allison Gale
• Naide Gedikli-Gorali
• Maria Georgouli Loupi
• Angélina Giret
• Haley Guepet
• Caroline Gurney
• Emily Rose Hay
• Georgina Heatley
• Tim Hodgson
• Catherine Jenkinson
• Sean Kinnear
• Dionysios Kouskoulis
• Tao Liu
• Alan Meggs
• Callan Meynell
• Nathan Nocchi
• Peter Nowell
• Ronan  O’Reilly
• Adam O. Taylor
• Micaela Panes
• Clare Parry
• Emma Pearce
• Anna-Marie Pípalová
• Hannah Purtymun
• Madeleine Rouot
• Mariyam Said Said
• Andrea Silen-McMillin
• Courteney Smith
• Pablo Soffia
• Sean Strong
• Paul Sutton
• Abhishek Tiwari
• Sophie Turbutt
• Luke Usher
• Albert William Wetter
• David Williams
• Robert Williamson
• Thomas Wood

 

HEADER IMAGE: People on the Beach at Trouville (1864), Eugène Louis BoudinFrench (1824–1898), Art Institute of Chicago, This information, which is available on the object page for each work, is also made available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

 

Many congratulations to all of the winners and runners-up in this year’s Royal Historical Society Prizes & Awards in research, publishing and teaching.

This year’s winners were announced on Friday 22 July, along with recipients of the Society’s PhD Fellows 2022-23, held in association with the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

A full listing of the 2022 recipients is available via the Society’s blog, along with acceptance speeches from the winners of this year’s Gladstone and Whitfield first book awards: Dr Emily Bridger and Dr Kristin Hussey.

Further information on the Society’s annual prizes and awards is also available. Submissions for the 2023 prize round will open in September this year. We’ll make a further announcement about how you, your colleagues and publishers can submit work for next year.

We hope you’ll join with us in encouraging early career historians to submit books, articles and dissertations for consideration in 2023.

Congratulations again to this year’s winners, runners-up and shortlisted authors. Thank you also to the 170 historians who who sent in work for consideration, and to this year’s judges who gave their free time to read each of the submissions.

 

A new virtual issue of 16 articles, selected from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, is now available. Each article is a published version of one of the Society’s annual Prothero Lectures. This virtual issue of the journal–freely available during 2022–is published on the centenary of the death of George W. Prothero (1848-1922), after whom the lectures are named.

First delivered in July 1969, the Prothero Lecture is now the centre point of the Society’s annual events programme. Lectures, given each July, are published as articles in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and the journal has more than 50 ‘Prothero’ articles in which leading historians consider new subject areas, methods and historiographies. Collectively, the Prothero articles chart shifting interests and priorities in historical research over the past half century.

10 July 2022 marks the centenary of the death of George W. Prothero (1848-1922), historian and editor, after whom the lecture is named. Prothero was President of the Royal Historical Society between 1901 and 1905 and played a leading role in the professionalisation of history and historical research in the early twentieth century.

For this virtual issue a selection of 16 articles have been chosen. They range from Charles Crawley’s inaugural ‘Sir George Prothero and his circle’ (1969) to Linda Colley’s 2020 lecture: ‘What happens when a written constitution is printed? A history across boundaries’. Historians whose work appears include: Joanna Bourke, Natalie Zemon Davis, Roy Foster, Olwen Hufton, Carole Hillenbrand, Sujit Sivasundaram, Pauline Stafford and Keith Thomas.

Read all 16 articles, freely available during 2022

This year’s Prothero Lecture—‘The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee Idol’, given on 6 July 2022 by Professor Rohan McWilliam—examines celebrity culture in London’s West End, 1880-1914. The video of the lecture is available, as part of the Society’s events archive. A published version of the lecture will be available later via TRHS FirstView and in print in 2023.

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The Society’s archive, at University College London, includes an extensive collection of the papers of George W. Prothero (1848-1922), historian, editor and President of the RHS, 1901-05. The archive has recently been re-catalogued and is available for consultation by appointment.

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The next virtual issue of the journal will appear in November 2022 to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication, in 1872, of the first volume of the Society’s Transactions–making TRHS the UK’s longest-running scholarly historical journal.

 

From the end of August, we will be extending the range of benefits available to all Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society. These will be in addition to the current set of benefits available, by category, to Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members.

The new benefits provide online access to the archives of RHS publications, and include:

• Online access to the current issue and searchable archive of the Society’s journal Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. The archive, available via CUP’s Cambridge Core platform, includes 144 volumes and more than 2200 articles, published between the journal’s foundation in 1872 and the early 2020s.
• Online access to all 325 volumes of the Society’s Camden Series of primary source materials, including the latest titles published in 2021 and 2022, again via CUP’s Core platform. Since 1838, the Camden Series has made primary records available in accessible scholarly editions, compiled and introduced by specialist historians. The Series is especially strong in material relating to British history, including the British Empire and Britons’ influence overseas.

Other benefits available from late August 2022:

• 30% discount on purchases of print copies of the Society’s New Historical Perspectives book series, offering monographs and essay collections, and produced in association with the Institute of Historical Research and University of London Press.
• 20% discount on print subscription to History Today, Britain’s leading history magazine (£52 per annum, usually £65 full price)
• 20% discount on online subscription to the archive of History Today (£56 per annum, usually £70 full price).

Following requests from current Fellows, with the introduction of full online access we will also offer the option to ‘opt out’ of the annual print copy of Transactions, starting with the November 2022 volume.

Current Members of the Society will be notified in August when these benefits become available.

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In the coming 12 months, the Society expects to offer further membership benefits, including:

• Access to a new ‘Fellows’ area’ on the Society’s website, providing curated content, a self-service membership subscription portal, and directory of Fellows’ research interests to enable scholarly exchange.
• Inclusion in and access to a directory of Fellows’ Research Interests.
• Additional discounts to partner publications and products. 

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Applications to join the Royal Historical Society are welcome at any time. The next deadline for applications is Monday 22 August 2022.

 

 

 

The Royal Historical Society is shocked and concerned by proposed redundancies and programme closures in History (and across all Arts and Humanities provision) at the University of Roehampton.

The terms of the Roehampton cuts are extensive.

The proposal is to make all 13.6FTE History posts redundant through voluntary or compulsory schemes and to require current staff to reapply for seven newly configured posts. In addition, the University seeks to close its History MA to new entrants from September 2022. If enacted, Roehampton’s cuts to History staffing will, in numerical terms, exceed those undertaken by any UK university in recent years. 

If the Roehampton proposal is extensive, it is also inexplicable.

By any measure, Roehampton is a successful History department. It performs extremely well in the 2022 National Student Survey and Guardian League Table, exceeding many Russell Group institutions. On its website, the University lauds its ‘world-class historians’ who combine academic study with ‘real-world experience’ and skills-building for successful graduate careers. It’s these same members of staff whose posts are now targeted for redundancy.

As in teaching so in research, the Roehampton History department is flourishing. 83% of Outputs were judged as ‘world leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*) in the recent REF2021 exercise. This places Roehampton among the UK’s leading post-92 institutions for History. Roehampton’s historians are equally skilled at external grant capture: £1.67mn since 2014—a 550% increase in income generation compared with the previous REF cycle. Roehampton History has already demonstrated considerable growth in research culture since 2014. To squander opportunities for future growth will be a huge waste of talent, reputation and potential in favour of short-term solutions to current concerns.

The University’s stated reasons for cuts are declining student admissions, and its need to restructure degree programmes to meet Office for Students’ markers on graduate employability and professional status. 

The Society finds this explanation unconvincing. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, between 2014 and 2020 recruitment increased at Roehampton by 113% in History, far exceeding the University’s 68% increase across all subjects in this period. Of the 104 institutions in the HESA survey, only two saw a greater increase in FTE enrolments to study History than Roehampton. Likewise, any subsequent small decline in admissions has identifiable and exceptional causes—most notably A-Level grade inflation in 2020 and 2021. 

The University is right to stress the need for History degrees to prepare students for employment in a range of sectors. However, it’s mistaken to argue that Roehampton History must start again with a new degree and job profiles in order to do so. 

As a closer look at Roehampton’s existing History programme makes clear, these priorities are already in place. Skills training and employability are central to History at Roehampton and a feature at all stages of the BA course, including a compulsory module in ‘Applied Humanities: Professional Practice and Placement’. As a result, for 2017-19, 66% of ​​Roehampton History undergraduate leavers were in ‘graduate level’ careers or further study. 

The Royal Historical Society has written to Roehampton’s senior managers to address their presentation of the History department and reasons for cuts. We sincerely hope our communication is read as constructive and the start of dialogue. We hope too that it encourages those charged with university management not to act in haste when considering change. Rather, we invite them to work with the Society, and others, to develop valuable, attractive and sustainable programmes in the humanities, for the longer term. 

It is our great concern that once disbanded—whether to meet short-term financial and strategic goals, or acquiesce to populist swipes at the humanities—centres of expertise like Roehampton History will prove impossible to recreate. This would be a loss we can truly ill afford.

The President and Council of the Royal Historical Society

 

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Those in UK History departments facing cuts, or concerned about their prospect, are welcome to contact the Royal Historical Society.

Contacts and resources are available in the Society’s new toolkit for ‘Supporting History Teaching and Research in UK Universities’.

 

A number of UK History departments have recently been faced with, or are experiencing, cuts to programmes and staff, or mergers with other disciplines.

As part of its advocacy role, the Royal Historical Society works with historians and heads of department who face significant change to their professional lives. Some of this work is ‘behind the scenes’ in communication with departments and university managers. Other aspects of this role include the provision of commentaries and resources to support historians, as best we can.

We have now brought these resources together as a toolkit ‘Supporting History Teaching and Research in UK Universities’.

 

 

This is a ‘work in progress’ and we welcome proposals from colleagues for additional information, especially from those who have – or are – experiencing cuts to staffing, research and teaching provision in their departments. To offer suggestions, please email the Society’s Academic Director. All communication is confidential and will not be disclosed by the Society.

 

 

The Society also has a confidential list of historians in UK Higher Education who are willing to speak to colleagues now facing treats to teaching or research in their departments. If you wish to be put in touch, in confidence, with colleagues from other departments, please get in touch. Please also contact us if you would like to offer your experience and advice, in confidence, to others. 

The Society is very grateful to those who have already offered their time and expertise in helping to prepare these resources.

 

At its latest meeting on 6 May 2022, the RHS Council elected 119 Fellows, 82 Associate Fellows, 61 Members and 72 Postgraduate Members, a total of 334 people newly associated with the Society. We welcome them all.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include journalists, teachers, lawyers, archivists and archaeologists. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine and the United States.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from broadcasting, digital humanities, teaching, archives, museums, galleries, heritage and journalism.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as curators, teachers, physicians, surgeons and local government officers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 42 different universities in the UK, Belgium, India, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

May 2022 sees the admission of our third set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two new membership categories introduced in late 2021. These changes to membership (about which you can read more here) enable more historians to join the fellowship, and facilitate more focused support for RHS members at the start of their careers.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to Monday 6 June 2022, with the next closing date being Monday 22 August 2022. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member), the benefits of membership, deadlines for applications throughout 2022, and how to apply, are available here.

 

New RHS Fellows, elected May 2022

• Nathen Amin
• Caroline Ashcroft
• Edwin Bacon
• William Bainbridge
• Christine Ball
• Guru Saday Batabyal
• Daniel Beer
• Rhys Bezzant
• Uri Bialer
• Melanie Bigold
• Nelson Block
• Michael Breidenbach
• Morris Brodie
• Stephen Brumwell
• Federico Brusadelli
• Nicholas Cambridge
• Mark Celinscak
• Tim Clayton
• Sharon Connolly
• Annie Coombes
• JGH Corrigan
• Imogen Corrigan
• Daniel Curtis
• Jonathan Cutmore
• Leonardo Davoudi
• David Day
• Margaret Dismore
• Aaron Donaghy
• James Downs
• Patrick Doyle
• Tom Duggett
• Dina Fainberg
• Mark Felton
• Ariane Fennetaux
• Michael Fleming
• Samuel Foster
• Sarah Frank
• Eamonn Gearon
• Francesca Granelli
• Ailsa Grant Ferguson
• Derwin Gregory
• Emily Guerry
• Peter Hamilton
• James Hannam
• Siobhán Hearne
• Cees Heere
• Jack Hepworth
• Catherine Hewitt
• Yuliya Hilevych
• Kei Hiruta
• Mary Hollingsworth
• Gemma Hollman
• Laure Humbert
• Helen Hyde
• Robin Jackson
• Karl James
• Lyndsey Jenkins
• Pia Jolliffe
• Heather Jones
• Claire Jones
• Simon Jones
• Edward Jones Corredera
• Sakiko Kaiga
• Diarmaid Kelliher
• Rachel Kerr
• Robert Kershaw
• Olesya Khromeychuk
• David Kim
• Craig Lamont
• Frank Ledwidge
• Amy Licence
• Itay Lotem
• Anna Maguire
• Mia Martin Hobbs
• Linda Maynard
• Jonathan McGovern
• Duncan Money
• Graham Mooney
• Kathryn Morrison
• Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
• Sarah Murden
• Sherra Murphy
• Pramod K Nayar
• Alexa Neale
• Elizabeth Norton
• Maeve O’Riordan
• Jennifer Orr
• Ozan Ozavci
• Olena Palko
• Niels Petersson
• Linda Risso
• Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
• Gavin Schwartz-Leeper
• Ian Scott
• Simone Selva
• Ophelie Simeon
• Haig Smith
• Karen Smyth
• Marco Soresina
• Antony Spawforth
• Anba Suriel
• Tim Tate
• Danielle Terrazas Williams
• Dominic Thomas
• Sonja Tiernan
• Luca Trenta
• James Ungureanu
• Guido van Meersbergen
• Polina Verbytska
• Adriano Vinale
• Alexander Wakelam
• Felix Waldmann
• Martin Walsh
• Sophie White
• Jack Whytock
• Alexandra Wilson
• Deborah Woodman
• John Woolf
• Kelly Yates

New RHS Associate Fellows, elected May 2022

• Oludamola Adebowale
• Christopher Bahl
• James Barnaby
• Mark Bennett
• Christopher Booth
• Bastiaan Bouwman
• Stuart Boydell
• Shawn Bullock
• Claire Burridge
• Rachel Calder
• Katherine Carter
• Alexia Clark
• Matthew Clark
• Hannah-Louise Clark
• Marc Collinson
• Charles Coutinho
• Christopher Cunliffe
• Nigel Davies
• Lauren Davies
• John Davies
• Lucia Diaz Pascual
• Reuben Duffy
• Sarah Fry
• Natalee Garrett
• Sheldon Goodman
• Eloise Grey
• Stephen Griffin
• Catherine-Rose Hailstone
• Natacha Henry
• Julie Holder
• Fiona Holter
• Elizabeth Hunter
• Ciaran Jones
• Mike Jones
• Amit K Suman
• Matthew Key
• Naomi Lloyd-Jones
• Coleman M Ford
• Maria Christina Mairena
• Sumantra Maitra
• Valentina Mann
• Rebecca Mason
• Philip McCarty
• Neil McIntyre
• Charlotte Mears
• Nick Mols
• Toni Mount
• Eoin Ó Donnchadha
• Frances O’Morchoe
• Rudi Papa
• James Perry
• Rachael Pymm
• Chinya Ravishankar
• Olivia Robinson
• Michelle Rosenberg
• Adam Sammut
• Jason Sannegadu
• Joseph Saunders
• David Seymour
• Matthew Simons
• Karan Singh
• Jack Skelton Wallace
• Frederick Smith
• Adele Sykes
• Donna Taylor
• David Thomas
• Jessica Tomkins
• Chika Tonooka
• Margot Tudor
• Momoko Uchisaka
• Mrinalini Venkateswaran
• John Vickerstaff
• James Watts
• Michael Weatherburn
• Rachael Whitbread
• Arthur Whittall
• Tim Wingard
• Matthias Meng Yan Wong
• Matthew Woolgar
• Jingyue Wu
• Michael Wuk
• Sha Zhou

New RHS Members, elected May 2022

• Tony Agnew
• Chuka Anatogu
• David Andrew
• Ian Armitage
• Imogen Bahl
• Muhammad Muneeb Baloch
• Alan Borthwick
• Adrian Broomhall
• Dupinder Buttar
• David Cairns
• Chris Capstick
• Sharmin Jahan Chowdhury
• Werner Coetzee
• Silvester Danóczy
• Thomas Davies
• James Davis
• Souhardya De
• Esley Rodrigues de Jesus Teixeira
• Emilio Elesbao dos Santos Neto
• Alan Gick
• Matthew Godwin
• Clare Grange
• Luke Horwitz
• Alan Keegan
• Joachim Keppler
• Kamakshi Krishna
• Abhay  Kulkarni
• Cheong Lam
• Zihan Li
• Carla Linford
• Joshua Lynbeck
• Tom Lyon
• John Malpass
• Grace Mathews
• Ollie McDaid
• Rebecca Mowbray
• Colin Nash
• Christopher Netherclift
• Phil Norwood
• Robert Owen
• Abbie Owen-Jones
• Debby Palti
• Lee Price
• Riela Provi Drianda
• James Robinson
• Yuji Sato
• Jamie Selig
• Neil Smith
• Kevin Stephison
• Laura Stone
• Diane Taylor
• Beatrice Taylor
• James Threlkeld
• King Lok Tsoi
• Htoo Wei
• Jason Williams-James
• Jacob Woodhouse
• Nathaniel Yeboah
• Rahel Yeoh
• Lucas Zanani
• Shiyao Zhang

New RHS Postgraduate Members, elected May 2022

• Ruth Barton
• Louise Bell
• Amy Blaney
• Nicola Bradbury
• Kensa Broadhurst
• Emma Buckley
• Robert Butt
• Jethro Calacday
• Christina Chatzitheodorou
• Ioannis Chountis
• Simon Clark
• Holly Conway
• Ashlyn Cudney
• Sarah Curry
• Alessandra De Mulder
• Juliette Desportes
• Victoria Downey
• Ellen Durban
• Ngozi Edeagu
• Elizabeth Egan
• Charlie Fenton
• Max Ferrer
• Mirabelle Field
• James Fox
• Louise Furse
• Erin Geraghty
• Nathan Hazlehurst
• Lucy Henry
• Alexander Hibberts
• Zoe Jackson
• Arielle Jasiewicz-Gill
• Joseph Kaminski
• Emma Kavanagh
• Emily Lalande
• William Law
• Ewan Lawry
• Gary Lawson
• Maksymilian Loth-Hill
• Roberto Lozano Mansilla
• Daniel McAteer
• Kelly McClinton
• Eddie Meehan
• Stephen Meyer
• Cheryl Midson
• Omar Nasr
• Tamara Newton
• Emma Orchardson
• Julia Phillips
• Carole Pinnington
• Julia Pohlmann
• Adam Quibell
• Joshua Rice
• Noble Shrivastava
• Aisha Shukat-Khawaja
• Myles Smith
• Isabella Smith
• Indiana Sobol
• Swathi Srinivasan
• Peter Stiffell
• Ellen Stokes
• Elvira Viktória  Tamus
• Helena Trenkic
• Alistair Trigg
• Sylvia Valentine
• Arlen Veysey
• Rebecca Watterson
• Johanna Wetzel
• Lynette White
• Joshua Whiteman-Gardner
• Christopher Whittell
• Kirsty Wright
• Yi-Jia Zeng

 

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The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to announce the award of fellowships to seven Ukrainian historians and Slavonic and East European Studies scholars unable to continue their work at home universities. The seven recipients will take up their positions at UK and European universities very shortly, with the hope of several more fellowships to follow in the near future.

The Ukraine ‘Scholars at Risk’ programme began in March 2022 with a partnership between the Royal Historical Society and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) who jointly pledged to fund four fellowships, with assistance from the Past & Present Society (P&P).

Additional funding from two more learned societies — the German Historical Society and the Ecclesiastical History Society — has made further fellowships possible. An extra position has been generated through public donations to a recent fundraising campaign by the Royal Historical Society and BASEES. At the time of writing, the Society of Antiquaries of London has also elected to support the scheme and will be providing an additional, eighth Fellowship.

In each case, the fellowships will be matched by a host university which will also provide the Ukrainian scholars with an academic mentor, office and library use, and opportunities to collaborate with departmental specialists, for a period of at least three months.

Four ‘general history’ fellowships — supported by the RHS and P&P — will be held by Ukrainian researchers at history departments at the University of Sheffield, Roehampton University, and the University of the West of England, and at the University of Bremen, Germany.

The German History Society fellowship will support a scholar of the German past at the University of Aberdeen, with an additional fellowship in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, funded by the Ecclesiastical History Society. The seventh fellowship — held by a scholar at the Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and East European Studies, University of St Andrews — is funded by BASEES.

Each of the fellows will also receive membership of the Royal Historical Society and of BASEES, for 12 months in the first instance.

 

The Royal Historical Society is delighted to be part of the Ukraine fellowships programme, and to have worked so collaboratively and effectively with other learned societies of history and area studies.

It’s been heartening to see other groups join the original RHS / BASEES scheme, and to receive such creative and generous applications from history departments across the university sector.

We are very grateful to these organisations, and also to the many RHS members and supporters who generously contributed funds for an additional Fellowship. We hope these placements offer refuge for scholars driven from their home universities in recent months.

The Society and its partners will be keeping in touch with each of the new fellows, and we’re sure they’ll receive a warm welcome from the historical community.

Professor Emma Griffin, President of the Royal Historical Society

 

The growth of this scheme since it was launched by BASEES and the RHS is a credit to the academic community.

Learned associations, scholars, and universities in the UK and beyond have come together to show active solidarity with their Ukrainian colleagues. These fellowships will make a real difference to those scholars at risk and their dependents.

Dr Matthias Neumann, President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

 

 

 

 

 

The Research Excellence Framework (REF), undertaken by the UK’s four HE funding bodies, provides a review and assessment of research in higher education. The results of the latest assessment (REF2021) were published on 12 May 2022.

To accompany publication of the results, Professor Mark Jackson and Professor Margot Finn — respectively chair and deputy chair of the History sub-panel for REF2021 — offer an overview of this latest review, its headline findings for History, and their reflections on disciplinary developments since REF2014.

Mark and Margot’s article reflects on some of the main processes and outcomes of the History sub-panel in its assessment of Outputs, Impact, and research Environments.

Fuller details will be provided in the Sub-panel and Main Panel D (Arts and Humanities) reports published later in May. Over the summer, REF will place further information in the public domain on its website. This will include the text of all submitted Impact Case Studies and Environment statements, providing extensive information about historical practice in the UK.