In April, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) announced that Adam Matthew Digital (AMD) had generously agreed to award the Society a number of twelve-month subscriptions to its digitised collections of primary sources. Our final round closed on 1 September and we were pleased to award 62 subscriptions over three application rounds.
These licenses will be made available free-of-charge to successful applicants based at UK universities for their doctorate. The RHS hopes that these licenses will significantly enhance the access of Early Career historians (both current doctoral students and recent recipients of doctoral degrees) to digital primary materials during the dislocations, travel restrictions and archive and library closures that are necessitated by the COVID-19 crisis in 2020-21. The twelve-month subscriptions Adam Matthew has kindly allocated to the RHS include not only the 8 million+ pages of primary source material in the Research Source Platform, but also over 70 thematic collections. You can find out more about the scheme on the RHS blog.
Across the 3 cycles, the RHS awarded 62 subscriptions to the following researchers:
Amelie Addison
University of Leeds
‘National Airs in the Life and Works of William Shield (1748-1829)’
Edward Armston-Sheret
Royal Holloway, University of London
‘Exploring Bodies: Science, Heroism, and the Body in British Exploration Cultures, 1856–1913’
Michael Bennett
The University of Sheffield
‘Merchant Capital and the Origins of the Barbados Sugar Boom, 1627-1672’
Sabera Bhayat
University of Warwick
‘The Problem of Polygamy in Modern India, 1880s-1940s’
Sarah Birt
Birkbeck, University of London
‘A Fashionable Business: Seamstresses, Mantua-makers and Milliners in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London’
Benjamin Bland
Royal Holloway, University of London
‘Extremism in the British Underground: Subcultural Fascism(s) and Their Reflections in Music Culture, c. 1975-1999’
Fiona Bowler
University of Southampton
‘The British Nuclear Test Veteran: Radiation, National Service, and the Soldier’s Body, 1952-2012’
Mike Brackpool
University of Southampton
‘Not the Expected War: How did British Newspapers portray the Phoney War of 1939-1940 and the Resultant Perception of this by its News Audience’
Morris Brodie
Queen’s University Belfast
‘Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939’
Simon Buck
Northumbria University
‘The Aged South: Old Age and Roots Music in the US South’
Emily Burnett
University of Southampton
‘Agency of the “Fallen Women” in the Later Nineteenth Century Portsmouth and Plymouth’
Rachel Chua
University College London
‘Virtuous Reality: Confucian Ideals and Women’s Agency in Late Imperial China’
Nicola Clarke
Birkbeck, University of London
‘Accuracy and the Value of Accuracy Seventeenth Century English News Sources’
Charlton Cussans
University of Aberdeen
‘Constructing Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia: Law, Immigration and, Citizenship, 1922-1939’
Paul Diggett
Manchester Metropolitan University
‘Poverty and Welfare in Manchester, between 1868 and 1914, with Reference to Angel Meadow and Ancoats’
James Finch
University College London
‘Reframing Oceania: Towards New Narratives of the Colonial Pacific, 1820-1920’
Iain Flood
Newcastle University
‘Violence and Victimhood: The Emotional Impact of Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Era Missouri’
Kevin Geddes
Edinburgh Napier University
‘Pioneering Television Cooking Programmes: Content, Controversy and Innovation in British Television Production, 1936-1976’
Ben Giordano
University of Southampton
‘Memories of Dance Halls in Twentieth Century Britain’
Nicole Gipson
University of Manchester
‘Making the Third Ghetto: Race and Family Homelessness in Washington, D.C., 1977 – 1999’
Geraldine Gnych
Swansea University
‘Representations of the Mouth in Medieval Health and Culture’
Nicolás Gómez Baeza
University of Warwick
‘Gringos duros: Transnational British Managements of Labour Discipline in Sheep Farming Industry (Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, 1837 – c. 1950)’
Nishant Gokhale
University of Cambridge
‘Agents of Order: Governing the Khandesh Bhils in Nineteenth-Century India’
Milo Gough
Goldsmiths
‘Urban Morphology of an Early Colonial City, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1850-1910’
Stephen Harper
Manchester Metropolitan University
‘The End of the Cromwellian Protectorate in North West England 1658-60’
Mel Harrison
King’s College London
‘Intersections of Gender and Disability on the Early Modern Stage 1553 – 1603’
Jasper Heeks
King’s College London
‘The Spread of ‘Genus Larrikin’: Overseas Reaction to Deviant and Delinquent Australian Youth, 1870-1940’
Yijie Huang
University of Cambridge
‘The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine, c.1650- c.1700’
Sandip Kana
King’s College London
‘Technical Education in Colonial and Post-colonial India, 1880-1958’
Aleksandra Kaye
University College London
‘Mapping the Polish Knowledge Networks in Nineteenth-century Latin America, 1830-1890’
Jennie Kiff
University of Lincoln
‘”Amazonian hooligans” or “feminist zealots”? : A demographic study of the Bradford branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1903-1918’
Oliver Lewis
University of Roehampton
‘Porous Masculinities: Unstable Surfaces, Fluid Identities and Early Modern Embodiment’
James Mackay
University of Edinburgh
‘‘‘What They Call Free in This Country’’: Refugees from Slavery in Revolutionary America, 1775-1783’
Katrina Maydom
University of Cambridge
‘New World Drugs in England’s Early Empire’
Lindsay Middleton
University of Glasgow/University of Aberdeen
‘The Technical Recipe: A Formal Analysis of Nineteenth-century Food Writing’
Sudipto Mitra
Royal Holloway, University of London
‘Conspiracies of Consent: The Middlemen in Nineteenth Century Indian Indentured Labour’
Harriet O’Neill
University of Roehampton
‘The Immigration of Theatrical and Medical Occupational Groups into the City of London 1571-1605: The Influence of Historical, Personal and Social-economic Factors’
Ellen Packham
University of Aberdeen
‘Literary Engineers: Engineers as Authors and Readers 1750 – 1900’
Sami Pinarbasi
University of Manchester
‘Manchester and the British West Indies, 1700-1833’
Matthew Pooley
University of Hull
The role of information and intelligence in the development of the British empire in North America and the Caribbean, c.1700-1750
Jonathan Powell
King’s College London
‘Place, Space and Common Law in Jacobean Britain’
Kelly Power
King’s College London
‘Changing Childhoods: The Educational Experiences of Working-Class Children 1850-1870’
Ellie Reed
The University of Roehampton
‘Lower Middle-class Domestic Culture in Woman’s Weekly, 1918-1958’
Emma Rhodes
University of Leicester
‘Opportunities and Representation of Non-White Women in the Works Progress Administration in the Southern United States’
Timothy Riding
Queen Mary, University of London
‘Producing Space in the English East India Company’s Western Presidency, 1612-1780’
Euan McCartney Robson
University College London
‘A Cathedral Encountered: Stories and Storytelling in Medieval Durham’
Andrew Searle
University of Birmingham
‘Is Anybody Listening? Torture Advocacy by Human Rights Activists from 1961 to 1979 and the Politics of Human Rights in the UK’
Mark Shearwood
University of Leeds
‘The Catholic Other in the Army of James II and William III, c 1685-1690’
Richard James Sladden
University of Cambridge
‘The Oil Shock and ‘Eurodollar Diplomacy, 1969-1979’
Ellen Smith
University of Leicester
‘Communication, Intimacy and Creativity: Family Life in British India, 1790-1920’
Amy Solomons
University of Liverpool
‘Books for Everyone? National Trust Libraries and their Reading Communities in the Long Eighteenth Century’
Cameron Stewart
University of Aberdeen
‘The Russo-British Alliance at Sea during World War One, 1914-1917’
Diane Strange
University of Leicester
‘The Contempt and Reproach of our Nation: petitioning the Court of Wards, 1610–1635’
Donna Taylor
University of Birmingham
‘Governance and Locality in the Age of Reform: Birmingham 1769-1852’
Suraj Thube
University of Oxford
‘Print, Language and Counterpublics: The Marathi Public Sphere in Late Colonial Western India, ca. 1920-1947’
Adam Waddingham
The University of Manchester
‘”We’re Out!”: An Intellectual History of the Development of Euroscepticism within British Political Thought’
Jackie Wilkinson
University of Winchester
‘What can patterns of church court litigation tell us about social and cultural relationships in different areas of early modern Hampshire?’
Weiao Xing
University of Cambridge
‘Language, Translation, and Encounters in the Early Modern North Atlantic World’
Oliver Yule-Smith
King’s College London
‘What are the themes that have shaped the Development of British China policy from 1922 to today?’
Yuan Yi Zhu
University of Oxford
‘The Theories and Practices of Sovereignty in Republican China, 1911-1943’
Jenna Zmrzel
University of Oxford
‘Thomas Cook, Women Travellers, and the Gender Dynamics of Leisure, c.1855-1903’
The winners of all the 2020 RHS Publication, Fellowship and Teaching Awards, were announced in a 