RHS News

On Tuesday 7 November, Tom Holland gave the 2023 RHS Public History Lecture, in association with Gresham College. Tom’s lecture — Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past’ — explored the experience of walking across London during the Covid pandemic of 2020. How, Tom asks, might this experience inform historians to better appreciate and understand the perspectives and expectations of those who undertook pilgrimages in the past?

Our thanks to Tom for his excellent lecture; to Gresham College for hosting the event; and to all those who attended the event in person or online.

Tom’s lecture is now available to watch via the Gresham College website.

 

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the appointment and election of four new members to its governing Council. All four will take up their posts following the Society’s AGM held on 24 November 2023. Their appointments follow open calls, earlier this year, for the new post of Vice President and that of Treasurer; and the recent election of two new Councillors from the Society’s Fellowship.

As Treasurer, Dr John Law will replace Professor Jon Stobart, who steps down in November after his four-year term. As Councillors Professor Mark Knights and Professor Iftikhar Malik replace Professor Barbara Bombi and Professor Thomas Otte who also end their four-year terms in November. From November, Barbara Bombi takes on the post of RHS Secretary for Research and Chair of its Research Policy Committee, replacing Professor Jonathan Morris who steps down after five years in this role.

 

Professor Clare Griffiths (Cardiff University), Vice President of the Royal Historical Society

 

Clare Griffiths is Head of History and Professor of Modern History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. Prior to taking up her current position in Cardiff, she taught at the University of Sheffield, Wadham College, Oxford, and the University of Reading, and she has held visiting fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Museum of English Rural Life.

Clare’s research focuses on the political and cultural history of Britain in the twentieth century, with a particular interest in the history of the countryside, agriculture and landscape. She is the author of Labour and the Countryside: the Politics of Rural Britain, 1918-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Class, Cultures and Politics (OUP 2011). Her published articles and essays include work on political debates in Britain during the Second World War, the commemoration and historical memory of early nineteenth-century radicalism, and many aspects of British farming and rural life. She has also written extensively for the Times Literary Supplement, particularly on visual art.

Clare was a member of the Society’s Council from 2018 to 2021, during which time she served on, and subsequently chaired the Research Support Committee.

 

Dr Michael John Law, Treasurer of the Royal Historical Society

 

John Law was, until his retirement, a Research Fellow in History at the University of Westminster. He joined the academic world later than is usual, completing his PhD when he was 54 years old. John’s work considers the experience of modernity in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of several academic books. His latest, A World Away, was published by McGill Queen’s University Press in 2022, and examines the impact of holiday package tours on the people of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. John was a council member and trustee at the University of Sussex from 2011 to 2017.

Prior to academia, John was a partner at PwC and an executive at IBM. In these roles, he provided consulting advice to the world’s largest financial institutions. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

 

Professor Mark Knights (University of Warwick), RHS Councillor

 

Mark Knights is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on early modern political culture in Britain and its empire, and on the history of corruption.

Mark’s most recent publication is Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire 1600-1850 (OUP 2021). He is currently working on a cultural biography of a seventeenth-century merchant philosopher; a book charting the history of corruption in Britain and its empire from the 1620s to the 2020s; and the Oxford Handbook of the History of Corruption.

Mark is a member of the editorial boards of Boydell and Brewer’s ‘Eighteenth Century Studies’ series and of the journal Parliamentary History. He has held numerous posts in his department and University.

 

Professor Iftikhar H. Malik (Bath Spa University), RHS Councillor

 

Iftikhar H. Malik is Professor-Emeritus at Bath Spa University, where he taught history for 27 years, following his five-year fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Presently, a member the Common Room at Wolfson College in Oxford, his Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World: British Scholars, Sojourners and the Sleuths with Routledge came out in June 2021.

In November 2022, his The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian (Oxford University Press, 2020), received the UBL Award for the best non-fiction work in English in Pakistan.

Iftikhar’s other studies include Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11 (Anthem, 2016 & 2017); Crescent between Cross and Star: Muslims and the West after 9/11, (OUP, 2006); and Islam and Modernity: Muslims in Western Europe and the United States (Pluto, 2003).

 

 

 

This year’s RHS President’s Lecture takes place at 6pm on Friday 24 November 2023:

‘European Exploration, Empires, and the Making of the Modern World’

Professor Emma Griffin (Royal Historical Society and Queen Mary, University of London)

Brewer and Smith Hall, Mary Ward House, 5-7 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN, and Online for those unable to attend in person

The President’s Lecture will be preceded by the Society’s Annual General Meeting, and followed by a drinks reception at Mary Ward House. All are very welcome to attend. Further details of the AGM will be sent to Fellows and Members of the Society in early November.

• To register to attend the Lecture and reception in person at Mary Ward House, London, please see here.
• To register to watch the Lecture online, please see here.

 

About the lecture

The British industrial revolution has long, and rightly, been regarded as a turning point in world history, and the question of why it all began in Britain has produced a large and lively literature.

In the past twenty years, our understanding has been considerably enhanced by the repositioning of events in eighteenth-century Britain within global history frameworks. Yet this has resulted in some unwieldy comparisons between Britain, a small island, on the one hand; and very large, continental land masses – India, China, and North America – on the other. Not only do these comparisons involve a significant switch in scale, there is the added complication that some of these regions were themselves bound in complex colonial relationships with Britain.

In this lecture, Emma Griffin suggests a far more meaningful comparative approach may be developed by turning to some of Britain’s nearest neighbours in continental Europe. By looking at European nations, similar in size, existing outside Britain’s empire, and indeed in some instances with imperial holdings and ambitions of their own, it is possible to shed new light on the complex and contested relationship between empire and industrialisation, and offer new answers as to why Britain industrialised first.

Emma Griffin is President of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of British History and Head of School at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research covers the social and economic history of Britain during the period 1700-1870, with a particular interest in gender history, the industrial revolution, and working-class life.

 

The Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize is awarded for an article or chapter based on original historical research, by a doctoral candidate or those recently awarded their doctorate, published in a journal or an edited collection of essays.

Applications are now invited, from those meeting the following criteria, for the 2024 Alexander Prize before the closing date of 31 December 2023.

• Candidates must be doctoral students in a historical subject in a UK institution, or be within two years of having a submitted a corrected thesis in a historical subject in a UK institution at the time of the closing date for entries.
• The article or essay must have been published in a journal or edited collection during the calendar year 2023 (for the 2024 prize round). Advanced access publisher versions are also eligible, but an item cannot be entered more than once in subsequent years
• An electronic copy of the publisher’s version the article or essay will need to be uploaded to the entry form.

All submissions are via the RHS Prize Applications Portal.

Winners of the 2024 Alexander Prize will receive £250. Please see here for more on the Prize, which was first awarded by the Society in 1898.

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RHS first book prizes, 2024

In addition to the Alexander Prize, books are now being received for the Society’s Whitfield and Gladstone Book Prizes. The 2024 Whitfield Prize is for a first monograph, published in 2023, on the subject of British and Irish History. The 2024 Gladstone Prize is for a first monograph, published in 2023, on a subject other than British and Irish History.

Submissions for the RHS Book Prizes, 2024 are by publishers only. Eligible authors should contact their publishers if they would like their book to be submitted for the 2024 prizes. All submissions should be made by the publisher via the RHS Prize Applications Portal.

The closing date for submissions of books for the 2024 Whitfield and Gladstone Prizes is 31 December 2023.

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If you have any questions about the RHS Prizes, please contact administration@royalhistsoc.org.

 

On Monday 16 October, members of the Society’s Council visited historians in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. The Visit is the latest in this autumn’s series of meetings with historians at universities across the UK.

The day brought together historians from the School with members of the Society’s Council. An opening session explored how the RHS can best work with and support historians. Topics included advocacy for history with politicians and policy makers; promoting the value of a history degree to prospective students, and their parents; employability for history graduates, and the importance of skills acquired for professional life in the mid-late 2020s; and the relationship of history to heritage studies.

The latter was central to a second session discussing distinctive features of Hertfordshire’s history programme. These included the department’s close relationships with external heritage groups, via its Heritage Hub, led by Katrina Navickas. This session also discussed the university’s Professional Doctorate in Heritage (DHeritage), run by Grace Lees-Maffei, which enables heritage professionals to undertake doctoral research; and the university’s pioneering MA in Folklore Studies, led by Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook and Leanne Calvert.

The visit concluded with a public lecture by our guest speakers — Elaine Farrell (Queen’s University Belfast) and Leanne McCormick (Ulster) — on ‘Naming and Shaming? Telling Bad Bridget Stories’. Elaine and Leanne’s lecture considered historians’ moral responsibilities to individuals discovered in institutional records who gave no consent to being remembered or discussed in historical research.

Many thanks to Elaine and Leanne, and all those who attended their lecture. Our thanks also to Jen Evans and William Bainbridge, and colleagues from the history department, for organising and hosting the visit.

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Hertfordshire is the fifth visit by the Society this year, following previous events at Edge Hill, Northampton, Kent and Canterbury Christ Church and the Highlands & Islands.

RHS visits resume in 2024 with days at the universities of York and York St John (13 March) and Brunel (23 May) which include public lectures by Fay Bound Alberti (King’s College London) and Corinne Fowler (Leicester) respectively. Further details of these visits will be released in due course.

 

The Royal Historical Society — with partners The National Archives and Institute of Historical Research — is pleased to announce details of its ‘History and Archives in Practice’ Conference for 2024. HAP24 will take place on Wednesday 6 March at Cardiff University. The partnership with Cardiff comes after an open call earlier this year, inviting UK archives to host the 2024 conference.

HAP24 will be the second year for ‘History and Archives in Practice’ and the first when the core group partners with a UK university / archive. We look forward to working with colleagues in Cardiff now that the Call for Papers for HAP24 is open. For more on the theme for next year’s conference, and how to submit a panel proposal, please see below.

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History and Archives in Practice, 2024: Call for Papers

HAP24 takes place at Cardiff University on Wednesday 6 March 2024 on the theme of ‘Historical Legacies: collecting history, historical collections and community voices’.

‘HAP24: Historical Legacies’ looks to the future (through the past) to discuss the impact of legacies past, present, and future. The event provides opportunities to reflect on the durability of legacies (historical, physical, digital), the democratisation of history, and our collective responsibility in working with communities to ensure that our collections and our practices are rooted in co-creation and collaboration.

With co-creation and collaboration in mind, we now invite proposals for ‘History and Archives in Practice, 2024’ on this theme.

We welcome submissions from historians, archivists, and heritage organisations alike. We are particularly keen to highlight and support smaller organisations, underrepresented collections, and marginalised voices as well as new and emerging research. This year we especially welcome submissions on the theme from projects in Wales.

Please submit an abstract (300 words) by Friday 15 December 2023 using this form

‘History and Archives in Practice’ encourages a wide range of formats that best showcase a collection and the experience / lessons of collaborative working between archivists and historians on shared projects. Suggested formats include:

• 20-minute papers
• Interactive workshops
• Full panels on a chosen topic (3-4 speakers with chair, 15-20 minutes per speaker)
• Introductions to specific collections and their potential for historical research
• Demonstration and handling sessions, introducing attendees to selected items from your collections, and their potential in research
• Other proposals and formats for communicating activity, experience and research are also welcome as we look to move on from traditional conference models

In the coming weeks and months, further information on HAP24 will be circulated on RHS, TNA and IHR social media, mailing lists and newsletters. Please do consider submitting a paper or panel proposal.

If you have any questions about HAP24 and submitting a proposal, please email: research@nationalarchives.gov.uk

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About ‘History and Archives in Practice’

A partnership of The National Archives, Royal Historical Society, and the Institute of Historical Research, ‘History and Archives in Practice’ (HAP) is where historians and archivists come together to consider shared interests in archive collections, their interpretation and use.

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual event, building on its partners’ long experience of bringing archivists and historians into close conversation. Our first event ‘HAP23’ took place on 29 March 2023 at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and explored the theme of ‘Collecting Communities: working together and with collections’.

You can find out more and watch videos from the event here: History and Archives in Practice, 2023

From 2024 and beyond, HAP endeavours to partner with UK archives and institutions who similarly specialise in bringing together archivists and researchers. Each year, we draw on aspects of UK collections and emerging research being undertaken, integrating these into the annual event programme. This new format enables a formerly London-based conference to take place at archive centres across the UK.

In 2024 we partner with historians and archivists from Cardiff University who will both host HAP24 and collaborate with us in the planning and organisation of the day, showcasing their collections and the breadth of innovative and exciting research that is being undertaken across the institution and Wales itself.

 

 

 

 

On Tuesday 10 October, the Society was delighted to host a panel discussion on ‘Writing and Publishing Trade History’, jointly with Yale University Press London. The event marked Yale 50, which celebrates 50 years of Yale University Press publishing in London, and took place in the Yale UP offices.

The panel brought together authors, publishers and literary agents to discuss History trade publishing from a range of perspectives. Our thanks to Yale University Press London as co-hosts and to our panellists: historians Rebecca Clifford (Durham) and Robert Gildea (Oxford); publishers Heather McCallum (Yale UP) and Simon Winder (Penguin Books); and James Pullen of the Wylie Agency. The panel was chaired by Emma Griffin, President of the Royal Historical Society.

Topics for discussion included the distinctive qualities of a trade History book; why authors might choose to publish a trade book, and at which stage of their academic career; what publishers such as Yale and Penguin look for in a proposal; the role of a literary agent; how the process of structuring and writing a trade book differs from that of an academic monograph; the value of trade publishing; and futures for History trade publishing with reference to diversity, subject areas and readerships.

Thank you also to our audience for their questions on topics including how to choose a publisher and identify an agent; the potential financial returns of writing a trade book; the impact of celebrity authors writing history; and when in the research and writing process to contact a publisher.

A podcast of ‘Writing and Publishing Trade History’ will be made available shortly for those unable to attend in person.

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Details of forthcoming Society panels and lectures are available on the Events page of the RHS website. These include:

• 5.30pm Monday 16 October 2023: ‘Naming and Shaming? Telling Bad Bridget Stories’, with Elaine Farrell (Queen’s University Belfast) and Leanne McCormick (University of Ulster), an RHS-sponsored lecture with the University of Hertfordshire
• 5.00pm, Tuesday 24 October 2023: ‘Black British History. Where Now, Where Next?’ – panel discussion with Hannah Elias (Goldsmiths, University of London), Kesewa John (Goldsmiths, University of London), Liam Liburd (Durham) and Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary University of London)
• 6.00pm, Tuesday 7 November 2023: ‘“There is always another one walking beside you”: Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past’, with Tom Holland, the RHS 2023 Public History Lecture held in association with Gresham College, London

 

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the award of its Centenary and Marshall PhD Fellowships for 2023-24 to four postgraduate historians currently completing their dissertations at universities in the UK and Ireland.

The Fellowships, held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), run for 6-months and enable holders to develop their research career.  

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This year’s Centenary Fellows are Clare V. Church and John Marshall.

• Clare is completing her PhD at Aberystwyth University where her research focuses on the cultural representations of women celebrities, and their subsequent influence on gender roles and national morale in the UK, US, and France during the Second World War.
• John’s doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin considers transnational lordship and politics in thirteenth-century Britain and Ireland, specifically focusing on the Marshal earls of Pembroke and lords of Leinster. 

This year’s Marshall Fellows are Stefano Nicastro and Helena Neimann Erikstrup.

• Stefano’s research at the University of Edinburgh examines cross-cultural and trans-regional interactions in the Mediterranean during the later Middle Ages. 
• Helena’s thesis, at the University of Oxford, explores visual representations of race and ecology made in Martinique in the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. 

Further information on the work of the Society’s Centenary and Marshall Fellows, 2023-24 is available here.  

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RHS Marshall Fellowships are supported by the generosity of Professor Peter Marshall FBA, President of the Royal Historical Society from 1996 to 2000. 

The call for Centenary and Marshall Fellowships for 2024-25 will open in Spring 2024.

 

At its latest meeting on 15 September 2023, the RHS Council elected 69 Fellows, 45 Associate Fellows, 58 Members and 71 Postgraduate Members, a total of 243 people newly associated with the Society, from today.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include museum curators, archivists, heritage consultants, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from eleven countries: Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and 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 heritage, libraries and archives, teaching, and public and community history.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals working in universities, culture and heritage, education, the civil service and medicine – together with independent and community historians and genealogists.

Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 47 different universities in the UK, Canada, Greece, India, the Netherlands, and the United States.

All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to 23 October 2023, with the future closing dates in 2024 to be announced shortly. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications throughout 2023; and how to apply, are available here.

 

New Fellows, elected September 2023

• Padma Anagol
• Agnes Arnold-Forster
• Karen Averby
• Victoria Barnes
• Heike Bauer
• Sarah Bendall
• Waitman Beorn
• Somak Biswas
• Rosalind, Bonte
• Lise Butler
• Alexandra Churchill
• Sarah Churchwell
• Kieran Connell
• Karoline  Cook
• Maria-José de la Torre-Molina
• Lorena De Vita
• Rebecca Donner
• Rachael Durkin
• Sian Edwards
• Freddy Foks
• Mary Fraser
• Eurico Gomes Dias
• Steven Gregory
• Phillip Grimberg
• Diya Gupta
• Earle Havens
• Jane Henderson
• Guy Hodgson
• Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
• Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
• Stacey Hynd
• Graciela Iglesias-Rogers
• Christopher Joby
• Miranda Johnson
• Sean Kelley
• Charlie Lynch
• Ellie Mackin Roberts
• Toby Matthiesen
• Sven Meeder
• Jeff Meek
• Andrew Miller
• Ghassan Moazzin
• Hana Navratilova
• Andrew Newby
• Nil Palabiyik
• Elisabeth Piller
• Joy Porter
• Daniel Reed
• Charlotte Riley
• Alexander Ross
• Michael Sauter
• Katherine Butler Schofield
• Katrin Schreiter
• Joseph Smith
• Michail Sotiropoulos
• Alex Spencer
• Patrick Spero
• Jodie Yuzhou Sun
• Oliver Taylor
• Steven Thompson
• Claire Thomson
• James Titterton
• Jesse Tumblin
• Garritt Van Dyk
• Peter Whitewood
• Benjamin Wiggins
• Callie Wilkinson
• Philippa Woodcock
• Edward Zychowicz-Coghill

 

New Associate Fellows, elected September 2023:

• Christopher Anderson
• Ruth Atherton
• Desmond Atkinson
• Nick Baker
• Braulia Barbosa-Ribeiro
• Breeze Barrington
• Agata Blaszczyk-Sawyer
• Thomas Burnham
• Patrick Carter
• Calum Cunningham
• Benjamin Dewar
• Aisha Djelid
• Kristina Francescutti
• Robert Gawlowski
• Lucy Golding
• Suha Hasan
• Michala Hulme
• Benjamin Jackson
• Emma Kavanagh
• Claire Kennan
• Amy King
• Emily Leigh-Pemberton
• Ming Liu
• Aaron Lumpkin
• Robert Mason
• Velma McClymont
• Louisa McKenzie
• Vincent Miles
• Edward Mills
• Robert Naylor
• Alice Purkiss
• Pilar Requejo de Lamo
• Alexandra Sapoznik
• Tatiana Shingurova
• Dave Steele
• Emily Stevenson
• Fleur Stolker
• Claudia Tomlinson
• Tim Wade
• John Watson
• June-Elizabeth White-Smith-Gulley
• Brendan Whyte
• Jason Wickham
• Megan Yates
• Aleksandar Zlatanov

 

New Members, elected September 2023

• Rasheed Amzart
• Aleksa Andrejevic
• Morarji  Bangalore
• Steve Bannes
• Louise Barton
• James Bass
• Liam Bayford
• Lisa Bevan
• Selena Carty
• Kelly Claman
• James Clay
• Vincent Courtney
• Ashlyn Cumberland Reed
• Charlie Dandridge
• Ellen Debney
• Roy Dempsey
• Tallulah Di Tomaso
• Katherine Dimancescu
• Ryan John Ellis
• David Fawcett
• Amanda Field
• Nicola Filosi
• Joseph Finn-Chapman
• Rob Flattery
• Edward Frostick Blois
• Liza Giffen
• Lydia Gray
• Christian Green
• Kyle Hargreaves
• Krzysztof Jankowski
• Michael Jennings
• Sumedh Kaushik GR
• Carolin Letterer
• James Lively
• Iain Macleod
• Natasha Minhas
• Rebecca Nelmes
• Teoni Passereau
• Alexander Pocklington
• Ulrich Poehlmann
• Geoffrey Prutton
• Eric Rijnders
• Ruth Robinson
• Euan Ross
• Olasupo Shasore
• Chander Shekhar
• Paul Smallwood
• Georgina Spriddell
• Luke Stevenson
• Megan Taylor-Buckley
• Christopher Thurling
• Michael Topple
• Robert Tringham
• Jennifer Tritschler
• Jamal Uddin
• Andrew White
• Chun Hei Wong
• Gary Pui-fung Wong

 

New Postgraduate Members, elected September 2023

• Akhil A R
• Roqibat Adebimpe
• Kerry Apps
• Aaron Austin Locke
• Allegra Ayida
• Andreas Bassett
• Antonia Belli
• Muhammad Suhail Bin Mohamed Yazid
• Basil Bowdler
• Lena Breda
• Daniel Breeze
• Charlotte Brunt
• Abhilash Chetia Wanniang
• Clare Church
• Nicola Ashley Clarke
• Ryan Clarke
• Jane Davidson
• Terence Davies
• Devin De Silva
• Pratika Rizki Dewi
• Matthew Dickinson
• Bogdan-Gabriel  Draghici
• Adeola Eze
• Haoqi Gao
• William Garbett
• Owain Gardner
• Harsha Gautam
• Henry Gillson-Gant
• Benjamin Gladstone
• Uziel Gonzalez Aliaga
• Niall Gray
• Emily Grenon
• Chengwei Han
• Jane Harrison
• Athanasios Ignatis
• Boryana Ivanova
• Fiona Jackson
• James Kendrick
• Zara Kesterton
• Nawajesh Khan
• Xinuo Liang
• Yangyang Liu
• Heather Lucas
• Yinwen  Mai
• John Marshall
• Natalie  Martz
• Marielle Masolo
• Sarah Mason
• James Mckitrick
• Charles  Miller
• Ian Mooney
• Thomas Morgan
• Helena Neimann Erikstrup
• Stefano Nicastro
• Emerson Norteman
• Folusho Oladipo
• Victoria Anne Pearson
• William Perry
• William Poulter
• Partha Pramanik
• Ryan Shelton
• Robert Snazell
• Thomas Sojka
• Morag Thomas
• Corrina  Thomson
• Camilo Uribe Botta
• Jorge Varela
• Katherine Watson
• Clare Whitton
• John Williamson
• Charlotte Willis

 

HEADER IMAGE: ‘Francesco I d’Este Invites Foreign Scholars to Court, from L’Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d’Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII, Bartolomeo Fenice (1659, detail), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

 

The Royal Historical Society is delighted to award Masters’ Scholarships to the following six students. Each student is now beginning a Masters’ degree in History for the academic year 2023-24:

• Roqibat Adebimpe, to study at the University of Sheffield
• Matthew Dickinson, to study at the University of Manchester
• Baryana Ivanova, to study of the University of Cambridge
• Nawajesh Khan, to study at Cardiff University
• Marielle Masolo, to study at the University of Oxford
• Charlotte Willis, to study at Cardiff University

The Masters’ Scholarship programme provides financial support to students from groups currently underrepresented in academic History. Each Scholarship is worth £5000.

The scheme, established in 2022, seeks to actively address underrepresentation and encourage Black and Asian students to consider academic research in History. By supporting Masters’ students the programme focuses on a key early stage in the academic training of future researchers. With these Scholarships, the Society seeks to support students who are without the financial means to study for a Masters’ in History. By doing so, we hope to improve the educational experience of early career historians engaged in a further degree.

The Society is very grateful to the Thriplow Charitable Trust which provided funding for one Scholarship, and to the Past & Present Society who funded a further two Scholarships in 2023-24. We will be keeping in touch with this year’s recipients and wish them well for their studies.

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Supporting Masters’ Scholarships: future rounds

The Society seeks to offer as many Scholarships as we can to talented eligible early career historians.

If you or your organisation would like to help us support additional Masters’ Scholarships in future rounds, please email president@royalhistsoc.org to discuss options with the Society’s President, Professor Emma Griffin.