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The Royal Historical Society

Privacy and Data Protection

Updated 7 May 2020

 

Introduction

The Royal Historical Society is a company incorporated in England and Wales with the registered charity number 206888, whose registered office is: University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

The Royal Historical Society is committed to upholding and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we use the personal data that we collect for the purpose of administering our membership categories, funding schemes and prizes.

Please read this information carefully.

 

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about the Royal Historical Society’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, the length for which we hold data, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us FAO the Executive Secretary.

  • Email: enquiries@royalhistsoc.org
  • Telephone:  +44 (0)20 3821 5311
  • Post: The Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

 

Changes to this privacy policy

We regularly review this policy. Any updates will be made on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 1 May 2020.

 

Why do we collect personal data?

Personal data refers to the any information relating to you that enables you to be identified either directly or indirectly. In the United Kingdom, the use of personal data is regulated by the Data Protection Act (2018).

The Royal Historical Society relies on the lawful basis of our processing of personal data being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests.

The Royal Historical Society collects and processes your data so that we can:

  • administer our schemes for membership, fellowship or funding, and manage this membership for its duration;
  • administer prizes and events and carry out other initiatives organised solely or partly by the RHS;
  • work with authors to develop publications;
  • appoint to honorary, paid and voluntary positions within the RHS;
  • email you with information about RHS activities, events and notices and opportunities that we think will be of interest;
  • maintain our historical archives for the purpose of historical research;
  • carry out our stated mission to represent, promote, advocate for and support the historical community;

 

Special Category Data

Through our online applications system we collect special category data within the lawful basis of legitimate interest under the condition of explicit consent. Any personal data coming within special category data (e.g. relating to gender, age, disability, racial or ethnic origin) will only be used for the purposes of monitoring diversity and equality. It will be stored confidentially and any analysis will be undertaken anonymously and with disaggregated data.

If you wish to withdraw your consent for the Royal Historical Society to hold special category data about you, please do not hesitate to contact the Executive Secretary.

 

How do we collect Personal Data?

The Royal Historical Society collects and processes personal data in the following main ways:

  1. Information automatically collected about visitors through our websites. This includes:
  • IP address;
  • Web browser type and version;
  • Operating system;
  • A list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on this Website, and the site you exit to.

 

  1. Data provided directly by individuals such as when you:
  • register with our online submission system, submit an application for, and/or are elected to, one of our membership categories;
  • register online to apply for one of our funding schemes;
  • are entered for one of our prize competitions;
  • nominate either yourself or a colleague to a position within the RHS;
  • propose or accept an invitation to publish with us;
  • contact us via our email, website or social media channels;
  • register for or take part in an event hosted solely or in part by us, whether online or in person.

The personal data we collect commonly includes:

  • name
  • contact information including email, postal address, and phone number
  • institutional affiliation and status
  • “special categories of data” including information about gender, age, ethnicity, religion may be requested with your explicit consent for equalities monitoring purposes.

 

Who do we share personal data with?

The Royal Historical Society will not sell any personal data to third parties.

The Royal Historical Society will only share personal data with third-parties who

  • supply the online systems that are used for the purposes of administering our services.
  • are involved directly in the running of RHS activities  including working groups, prize committees and assessing funding applications.

Basic factual information (such as name, institutional affiliation, membership of any committees, Council or working groups may be made publicly available on our website for reasons including:

  • accuracy of meeting minutes and published reports;
  • notices of publications, prizes and grant awards;
  • records of events and other conferences that we host may also include the names of those attending;
  • providing authorial credit.

 

Transfers of personal information outside the UK

Data which we collect from you may be stored or processed in and transferred to countries outside of the area covered by EU GDPR legislation, for example if our servers or service providers are located in a country outside this area. If personal data is transferred in this way, we will aim to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this privacy policy e.g. through the receipt of a written guarantee of GDPR compliance.

 

How long do we store personal data for?

Data security is of great importance to the Royal Historical Society, and to protect your data we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial safeguarding procedures. We store personal data for different amounts of time, depending on the purpose:

  • In the case of data provided in the course of administering membership and fellowship, the Royal Historical Society will keep your data for as long as you remain a Member or Fellow.
  • Basic personal data (such as name, date of birth and contact details) from funding applications and unsuccessful nominations will be kept in order to confirm eligibility for future funding scheme applications.
  • Data that is necessary for financial audit purposes will be kept for 7 years.
  • When personal data is collected for other specific purposes (e.g. participation in an event, survey or temporary funding scheme) we will provide clear confirmation of the data retention period at the point the data is collected.

 

What are your Data Protection Rights?

The Royal Historical Society would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. You are entitled to the following rights in relation to the data that we hold about you:

  • The right to access– You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification– You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete any information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure– You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing– You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing– You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability– You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

 

If you make a request within these rights, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact the Executive Secretary of the RHS by:

  • Email: enquiries@royalhistsoc.org
  • Telephone:  +44 (0)20 7387 7532
  • Post: The Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (please note that during the exceptional circumstances of COVID-19 we are not currenttly able to access the RHS offices)

 

Password Access

If password access is required to access certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

 

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org. The Royal Historical Society may use cookies to:

  • Keep you signed in
  • Understanding how you use our website
  • Improve your experience of using the Website and to improve our range of services. Before the Website places Cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those Cookies.

You can set your internet browser to not accept cookies; however certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended.

 

Marketing

The Royal Historical Society would like to send you information about our services, events and publications that we think you might like. If you agree or register on our websites to receive these emails from us, you have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for these purposes.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for these purposes please contact the Executive Secretary by email at enquiries@royalhistsoc.org.

 

Privacy policies of other websites

The Royal Historical Society websites contain links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our websites, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

 

How to lodge a complaint with the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint with respect to this privacy policy or if you feel that the Royal Historical Society has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office via their website: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.

 

Ukrainian Scholars at Risk: Fellowships in History and Slavonic and East European Studies 

 

Fellowships and Fundraising

On 23 March 2022, the Royal Historical Society (RHS), British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) and Past and Present Society (P&P) are offering funding towards three short-term fellowships (minimum 3 months) at higher education institutions in the UK, European Union or elsewhere in continental Europe to provide a place of academic refuge for three scholars from Ukraine.

From 29 March, we are delighted to be joined by the Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) which is funding a fourth fellowship to provide a place of academic refuge for a scholar from Ukraine active in the study of the history of Christianity.

From 13 April, the German History Society (GHS) has announced funding for a fifth fellowship to support a Ukrainian researcher working on the history of Germany and the German-speaking world in the broadest sense. We are very grateful for the GHS’s involvement and provision of an additional placement.

The RHS and BASEES are also fundraising to provide additional fellowships.


Each grant is worth £5,000 (€6,000) to the Fellow and must be matched by equivalent funds AND / OR in-kind assistance from the host institution (for example, travel, accommodation, meals, office space and IT support, plus insurance) of a financial sum equivalent to £5,000 (€6,000) grant for a minimum duration of three months, to begin as soon as possible.

To best support Ukrainian scholars at risk, we also welcome applications from host institutions willing to offer more than match-funding, whether as a financial sum or in-kind assistance.

Two grants (funded by the RHS and P&P) will be reserved for Ukrainian scholars displaced by the Russian invasion who are undertaking historical research in the broadest sense. A third grant (funded by the EHS) will support a Ukrainian scholar of the history of Christianity.

One grant (funded by BASEES) will be for any displaced Ukrainian scholar in the field of Slavonic and East European studies. Host institutions can offer these fellowships to PhD candidates, Early Career and established scholars.


How to make an application

  • The host institution names a scholar at risk who will be designated an RHS/BASEES/P&P/EHS/GHS Fellow.
  • The host institution will support the integration of the Fellow into the local academic community.
  • The host institution will appoint a designated mentor to support the Fellow.
  • The host institution will support the Fellow in drafting and submitting applications for long-term funding and/or more permanent academic positions at the host or another HE institution.
  • The host institution will match-fund each Fellowship via a direct payment to the Fellow; and/or provide an equivalent in-kind contribution (comprising accommodation, meals etc.)
  • In addition, the host institution will provide the Fellow with library, internet, and research resource access, and health insurance, as well as visa support if applicable.
  • The length of the fellowship is a minimum of three months.

 

Applications from the host institution must be submitted via the RHS’s online application system.

The closing date for applications from host institutions was Wednesday 20 April 2022, however applications for the Fellowship on the History of Germany and the German Speaking World now closes on Monday 9 May 2022.

 


The following information will be required:

  • information on the support provided by the hosting institution, including intended dates of the fellowship

In addition, the application requires information regarding:

  • EITHER a description of the situation of the proposed Fellow, and short CVs for both the proposed Fellow and the designated mentor.
  • OR a description of the proposed recruitment process, including time-lines.  Please note that funds are paid to Fellows, not institutions, therefore funds will only be released once the institution has successfully appointed a fellow.

Make an application vis the RHS applications portal.

Successful host institutions will be notified as soon as possible after the closing date of Weds 20 April. Questions about the application process may be sent to: administration@royalhistsoc.org.


Fundraising for additional Ukraine fellowships

The RHS and BASEES are also fundraising to increase the number of grants available via a JustGiving page https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/baseesandrhsSARfellowships 

Additional funds raised will support extra fellowships. We will announce these to interested universities as soon as the funding for one or more additional fellowship becomes available.

We also welcome involvement from other learned societies / organisations in the historical and social sciences who wish to partner on future Ukraine fellowship grants. Those wishing to do so may contribute via the RHS/BASEES JustGiving page or contact the Society’s CEO: adam.hughes@royalhistsoc.org.

Thank you, in advance, for any contribution you are able to make.

 

 

Website terms of service

The Terms and Conditions were last updated on 21 July 2021

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BALH ‘Meanwhile Nearby’ historical resource – call for contributors

BALH is currently in discussions with education experts at the University of Reading to develop an exciting new education resource for local history, and we are reaching out to our members and member societies for your help and expertise.

‘Meanwhile Nearby’ is a fantastic resource that allows teachers to bring more local history into the classroom, by getting pupils to research (and then discuss in class) local history that was happening at the same time as the topics that they are studying in their taught curriculum. BALH is now teaming up with this project, to provide expertise and support for teachers across the country.

To accomplish this, we are looking for volunteers from amongst our members to help to identify stories and locate resources which could be used to build a ‘Meanwhile Nearby…’ resource.

A list of potential projects has already been identified, and we are looking for contributions in the following areas:

– London in the Industrial Revolution (particularly the Clapham area)

– The impact of the Industrial Revolution in the Cotswolds

– The slave trade and local landowners in Northumberland

– Working women in Derry (NI) in the Industrial Revolution.

This resource will be hosted on BALH’s new educational resources web section and used by teachers across the country.

If you feel you might be able to help BALH in this exciting new collaboration

Please get in touch with Claire Kennan at digital@balh.org.uk

More information and example resources can be found at https://meanwhileelsewhereinhistory.wordpress.com/meanwhile-nearby/

We look forward to hearing from you!!

https://www.balh.org.uk/

 

Bowl with Enthroned Figure and Horsemen late 12th–early 13th century, Iran, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain

Society elects 246 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members

At its latest meeting on 4 February 2022, the RHS Council elected 55 Fellows, 52 Associate Fellows, 46 Members and 93 Postgraduate Members, a total of 246 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 oral historians, geologists, teachers, journalists and editors. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from Australia, Austria, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland 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 the civil service, teaching, archives and libraries, museums and galleries, heritage and conservation, 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 39 different universities in the UK, Ireland, Australia, China, Germany, Kuwait and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

February 2022 sees the admission of our second 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 4 April 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 February 2022

  • Stuart Anderson
  • Richard Ansell
  • Malcolm Atkin
  • Hester Barron
  • Elizabeth Biggs
  • Myra Bom
  • Antje Bosselmann Ruickbie
  • Toby Burrows
  • Ian Conrich
  • Elizabeth Crawford
  • John Curran
  • Peter Doyle
  • Anastasia Dukova
  • Sarah Dunstan
  • Andrew John Flack
  • John Flood
  • Emma Folwell
  • Charles Forrester
  • Jonathan Fruoco
  • Howard Fuller
  • Dai Gao
  • Joseph Harley
  • Marieke Hendriksen
  • John Hinks
  • Vicky Holmes
  • Kirsty Hooper
  • Robert Hopkins
  • Stuart Jennings
  • David Kohnen
  • Bill Leadbetter
  • Eric Lee
  • Tamsin Lewis
  • Jason Lim
  • Sarah Lynch
  • Alan Mayne
  • Elaine McGirr
  • Xueqin Mei
  • James Newman
  • Dorian (Dusty) Nicol
  • Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick
  • Imogen Peck
  • Erin Peters
  • Adrian Phillips
  • Michael Reeve
  • George Roberts
  • Ian Sanders
  • Geoff Simpson
  • Benjamin Snook
  • Peter Speiser
  • Iain Taylor
  • Leah Tether
  • Rosa Vidal Doval
  • Shalva Weil
  • Beth Williamson
  • Richard Wragg

 

New RHS Associate Fellows, elected February 2022

  • Jak Allen
  • Amanda Callan-Spenn
  • Jasmine Calver
  • James Chetwood
  • Alexander Courtney
  • Katherine Davison
  • Jonathan Eaton
  • John Edwards
  • Hannah Elias
  • Laura Flannigan
  • Lynsey Ford
  • Duncan Frost
  • Albert Gallon
  • Andrew Graham
  • Tristan Griffin
  • Samuel Grinsell
  • Dorothy Halfhide
  • Lily Hawker-Yates
  • Christopher Heath
  • Stephen Huggins
  • Eloise Kane
  • Edward Keazor
  • Meg Kobza
  • Simon Lambe
  • David Lane
  • David Lees
  • Andrew Lind
  • Thomas Martin
  • Scott Meyer
  • Christopher Moore
  • Rachel Murphy
  • Robert Nantes
  • Maria Newbery
  • Doga Ozturk
  • Giuseppe Paparella
  • Vivek Pathak
  • Alison Pedley
  • Ellie Reid
  • Elisabeth Rolston
  • Louise Ryland-Epton
  • Iida Saarinen
  • Sheila Seymour
  • Sube Singh
  • Vaibhav Singh
  • Jeannette Strickland
  • Rowan Thompson
  • Vikram Visana
  • Anthony Wakeford
  • Kristy Warren
  • Paul Williams
  • David Worsley
  • Mingjie Xu

 

New RHS Members, elected February 2022

  • Conor Allcock
  • John Beech
  • Francis Calvert
  • Maria Carvalho
  • Salvador Claflin
  • Basil Cleveland
  • Xavier Cottier
  • Tim Cripps
  • Lauren Curry
  • Grace Egan
  • Stephen Evans
  • Jeremy Ganz
  • Chiu Gavin
  • Devan Green
  • Dylan Harrison
  • Angela Hatton
  • Ian Hawking
  • Kyle Hubert
  • Susan Ingmire
  • Steven Jenkins
  • Simay Karasakal
  • Thomas Kelsall
  • Andreas Koureas
  • Seann Macnamara
  • Elizabeth MacPherson
  • Jack Maskell
  • Luke McDonald
  • Calum Mercer
  • Mark Murawski
  • Ed Myatt
  • Patrick O’Shaughnessy
  • Junbin Pan
  • Praveen Pathak
  • Rachel Rowlands
  • Andrew Ruddle
  • Robert Senior
  • Declan Sheehan
  • Morwenna Silver
  • Paul Thomas
  • Peter Van der Heyden
  • Charles Veale
  • Richard Warrington
  • Tony Williams
  • Andrew Williams
  • David Wood
  • Spencer Wright

 

New RHS Postgraduate Members, elected February 2022

  • Rosalind Acland
  • Benjamin Anderson
  • Antonia Anstatt
  • Shera AviYonah
  • Laura Bailey
  • Barnabas Balint
  • Holly Bamford
  • David Bonner
  • Jacob Brandler
  • Clare Burgess
  • Thomas Burnham
  • Ksenia Butuzova
  • Zara Christmas
  • Clare Victoria Church
  • Minna  Colakis
  • Juliana Coulton
  • Maria Florencia Denti
  • Laurie Dighton
  • Thomas Dobson
  • Michael Donnay
  • Megan Doole
  • Taryn Duffy
  • Judith Dunkling
  • Elias Forneris
  • Travis D. Frain
  • Katharina Friege
  • Jacqueline Grainger
  • Shreya Gupta
  • Lucy Haigh
  • Felicity Hall
  • Leif Bjarne Hammer
  • Annabel Hancock
  • Thomas Harper
  • Jordan Harris
  • Hans Erik Havsteen
  • Tanya Heath
  • Simon Sai-hau Ho
  • Ffion Hughes
  • Jonathan Hutchinson
  • Eve Jeffery-Wilson
  • Zhixia Jin
  • Pierce Jones
  • Alexander Kelleher
  • Mohammed Kharshan
  • Kajetan Kubala
  • Nur Laiq
  • Simon Lam
  • Eve Lang
  • Josh Lappen
  • Maelle Le Roux
  • Helen Leighton-Rose
  • Joel Littler
  • Zongyue Liu
  • Yicen Liu
  • Nicholas Logan
  • Vittorio Maresca di Serracapriola
  • ChloĂŤ Mayoux
  • Catriona McAvoy
  • John Merrington
  • Mohamed Mohamady
  • Conor Murphy
  • Olga Nikonenko
  • Kevin Noles
  • Kirsty Peacock
  • Kathrina Perry
  • Daniel Phillips
  • Megan Price
  • Jan-Willem PrĂźgel
  • Will Ranger
  • Serena Rattu
  • Elizabeth Rees
  • Nate Richardson-Read
  • Laura Roberts
  • Matthew Selheimer
  • George Simmonds
  • James Squires
  • Swathi Srinivasan
  • Michelle Staff
  • Warren Stanislaus
  • Pavel Stepanov
  • Iria Suarez Martinez
  • Thomas Swailes
  • Chun Hin Lucas Tse
  • NoĂŠ Vagner-ClĂŠvenot
  • Amber Vella
  • Ziyi Wang
  • Amanda Westcott
  • Caitlin Williams
  • Gillian Woodcock
  • Anna Wright
  • Yihuan Xu
  • Zhao Zhiyuan
  • Anna Zhukova

 

Bowl with a continuous landscape with scholars, anonymous, c. 1700, Rijksmuseum

Society elects 334 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members

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
  • SiobhĂĄn 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 DanĂłczy
  • 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 ViktĂłria  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

 

HEADER IMAGE: Bowl with a continuous landscape with scholars, anonymous, c. 1700, Rijksmuseum, public domain

 

 

Society elects 239 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members

 

At its latest meeting on 16 September 2022, the RHS Council elected 64 Fellows, 59 Associate Fellows, 57 Members and 59 Postgraduate Members, a total of 239 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 curators, teachers, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from Australia, India, Ireland, Spain and the United States.

Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education: a reminder that the Fellowship is open to all whose research provides a scholarly contribution to historical knowledge.

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, museums and teaching.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as bankers, civil servants, the clergy, lawyers and members of the judiciary and teachers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 30 different universities in the UK, China, Germany, Ghana, Singapore and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

September 2022 sees the admission of our fifth 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 31 October 2022, with the next closing date being Friday 13 January 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member), the benefits of membership (including new benefits added from August 2022), deadlines for applications throughout 2023, and how to apply, are available here.

New Fellows, elected September 2022

  • Timothy Alborn
  • Athanasios Antonopoulos
  • Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
  • Gordon Barclay
  • Jochen Burgtorf
  • John Burke
  • Stephen Catterall
  • Jessie Childs
  • Stephen Clarke
  • Sophie Cooper
  • Alexander Craven
  • Sonya Cronin
  • William Dalrymple
  • Callan Davies
  • Sara Dominici
  • Scott Eaton
  • Amy Edwards
  • Penelope Edwards
  • Francisco Eissa-Barroso
  • Corisande Fenwick
  • Fernanda Gallo
  • Austin Glatthorn
  • Felicia Gottmann
  • Zoe Groves
  • Tanya Harmer
  • Felicity Hill
  • Matthew Alan Hill
  • Sarah Irving
  • Martin Johnes
  • Emma Kay
  • Jill Kirby
  • Daniel Knowles
  • Alice Leonard
  • Amy Livingstone
  • Simon Mahony
  • James Mansell
  • Katharine Massam
  • David McInnis
  • Marcus Meer
  • Gavin Miller
  • Gillian Mitchell
  • Alexia Moncrieff
  • Eva Moreda RodrĂ­guez
  • Federico Paolini
  • Simon Parkin
  • Chelsea Phillips
  • Lydia Plath
  • Tanja Poppelreuter
  • Matthew Powell
  • Lynda Pratt
  • Eoin Price
  • Dieter Reinisch
  • Stephen Ridgwell
  • JesĂşs Sanjurjo
  • Jayita Sarkar
  • Leo Shipp
  • Rebecca Simon
  • Elaine Sisson
  • Jean Smith
  • Agnieszka Sobocinska
  • Kenneth Stewart
  • Nino Strachey
  • Tom Ue
  • Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

 

New Associate Fellows, elected September 2022

  • Rowena Abdul Razak
  • SJ Allen
  • Alan Anderson
  • Ed Armston-Sheret
  • Matthew Ball
  • Gad Barnea
  • Lisa Berry-Waite
  • Tobias Bowman
  • John Broom
  • Hayley Brown
  • Esther Brown
  • Anna Cusack
  • Wim De Winter
  • Iain Farquharson
  • Rosaria Franco
  • Pauline Gardiner
  • Milo Gough
  • Tim Guile
  • Gabriel Gurian
  • Julia Hamilton
  • Terra Han
  • Antony Harvey
  • Matthew Hedges
  • Joseph Higgins
  • Deb Hunter
  • Baher Ibrahim
  • Emily Ireland
  • Malarvizhi Jayanth
  • David Jones
  • Sebastian Jones
  • Kathryn Lamontagne
  • Christopher Lewis
  • Sundeep Lidher
  • Mark Liebenrood
  • Rosanagh Mack
  • Nenad Marković
  • Eva Charlotta Mebius
  • Debora Moretti
  • George Morris
  • Janet Morrison
  • Anna Muggeridge
  • Levin Opiyo
  • Manolis Pagkalos
  • Chris Perry
  • Stuart Pracy
  • Richard Purkiss
  • Maurice Robinson
  • Linda Ross
  • Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
  • Kanika Sharma
  • Gabrielle Storey
  • James Taylor
  • Floris van Swet
  • Robert Wilde-Evans
  • David Williamson
  • Jon Winder
  • Malgorzata Wloszycka
  • Lucy Wray
  • Xuduo Zhao

 

New Members, elected September 2022

  • John Allen
  • Muhammad Ashraf
  • Tom Baldwin
  • Ruman Banerjee
  • Jennifer Barlow
  • Tyler Bender
  • Lara Bevan-Shiraz
  • Luca Boschetti
  • John Chan
  • Kim Cliett Long
  • Lucy Coatman
  • Rory Cooper
  • Eleanor Coppard
  • Ian Davidson
  • James Edwards
  • John Leopoldo Fiorilla di Santa Croce
  • Gordon Fisher
  • Kate Gibson
  • Michael Gillibrand
  • Adhila Hameed
  • Chengwei Han
  • Graham Haynes
  • Elaine Huggett
  • James Humphrey
  • Malcolm Johnston
  • Matteo Lai
  • Chi Lau
  • Barry MacNeill
  • Laura Leigh Majernik
  • Birahim Mbow
  • Hanjia Miao
  • Leonardo Monno
  • David Moshier
  • Ernest Mudzengerere
  • Frederick Newell
  • Ali Nihat
  • Michal Fryderyk Nowacki
  • Finnian Orders
  • David Owen-Jones
  • Kannen Ramsamy
  • Ian Rummery
  • Christopher Said
  • Steffi Santhana Mary
  • Stephanie Saunders
  • Simon Scruton
  • Vinod Sharma
  • Zhe Tian
  • Khosrow Tousi
  • David Vanegas
  • Andrew Varga
  • Ioannis Vougioukas
  • James Watson
  • Richard Whitaker
  • Karen Witt
  • Zehan Zhang

 

New Postgraduate Members, elected September 2022

  • Tristan Alphey
  • Sydney Arnold
  • Mathew Ayamdoo
  • Jennifer Baillie
  • Daniel Banks
  • Sarah Bernhardt
  • Tom Brautigam
  • Janette Bright
  • Michelle Castelletti
  • Santorri Chamley
  • Ying Sum Chan
  • Francesca Chappell
  • Ram Choudhury
  • Natali Cinelli Moreira
  • Scott Connors
  • Mairead Costello
  • Amber Cross
  • Henry Daramola-Martin
  • Clemmie de la Poer Beresford
  • Chris Doyen
  • Kim Embrey
  • Nicholas Fitzhenry
  • Jamie Gemmell
  • Rebecca Goldsmith
  • Irene Hallyburton
  • Julia Helman
  • Ho Hin Ho
  • Gemma Jackson
  • David Karoon
  • Urvi Khaitan
  • Henna Khanom
  • Emma Kiey
  • Louis Kill-Brown
  • Thomas Kingston
  • Daniel MacDonald
  • Micah Mackay
  • Perseverence Madhuku
  • Joshua Madrid
  • Jayne Martin
  • Graham Moore
  • Erin Newman
  • Alison Norton
  • Raphael Oidtmann
  • Allan Pang
  • Kirsten Parkin
  • Ahmed Patrick-Lalljee
  • Ann Pomphrey
  • Ollie Randall
  • Robert Runacres
  • Beckie Rutherford
  • Victoria Sands
  • Alexander Sherborne
  • CaitlĂ­n Smith
  • Avery Sprey
  • Sadie Sunderland
  • Joanne Watson
  • Grace Whorrall-Campbell
  • Gary Willis
  • Xiwen Yang

 

Header Image: Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience, attributed Iran, late 12th–early 13th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

 

 

RHS Gladstone Past Winners

1997
Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe

1998
Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956

1999
Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War

2000
Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000

2001
Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and ‘Pagans’ in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300

2002
David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870

Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV [JOINT WINNERS]

2003
Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India and Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830

2004
Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany

2005
Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850

2006
James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice. Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550- 1700

2007
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Filippo De Vivo, Information and Communication in Venice (RUNNER UP)

2008
Caroline Dodds-Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (Palgrave MacMillan: 2008)

2009
Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages. Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 (Cambridge University Press: 2009)

2010
Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776 (Cambridge University Press: 2010)

2011
Wendy Ugolini, Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II, (Manchester University Press: 2011)

2012
Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn, (Harvard University Press: 2012)

2013
Sean A Eddie, Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848 (Oxford University Press: 2013)

From this point the prize is awarded for and presented in the year following publication.

2015
Andrew Arsan, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst, 2014)
JOINTLY WITH
Lucie Ryzova, The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2014).

2016
Emma Hunter, Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

2017
Claire Eldridge, From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the pied-noir and harki communities, 1962-2012 (Manchester University Press, 2016)

2018
Matthew S Champion, The Fullness of Time. Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

2019
Duncan Hardy, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521 (Oxford University Press: 2018).

2020
Caillan Davenport for A History of the Roman Equestrian Order  (Cambridge University Press: 2019).

2021
Tom Stammers for The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press: 2020).

2022
Emily Bridger for Young Women Against Apartheid. Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)

2023
Jennifer Keating for On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia (Oxford University Press, 2022)

 

Society elects 206 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members

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
  • StĂŠphane 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
  • AngĂŠlina 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 PĂ­palovĂĄ
  • 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

 

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ECH – Publishing a Book (I)

 

Book publishing remains fairly traditional, not as affected by the digital revolution as journal publishing. As with journals, however, there are a range of book publishers that you can probably array in a quality sequence depending on your own experience of your own field. Generally, though, they break down into three types: i) university presses; ii) big commercial presses; iii) boutique commercial presses.

The university presses tend to carry the most prestige – because they do the most thorough peer-review, and thus the most thorough quality control. Their mission is to publish academic books (and so are not under such pressure to rack up big sales or require ‘crossover’ appeal). The big commercial presses need higher sales; they’ll only be interested in an academic book if it can be dressed up with ‘crossover’ appeal, either stylistically or substantively (sex, violence, war, or some other kind of rich human interest).

Boutique commercial presses have burgeoned in recent years, as more academics want to publish more books than the university presses can accommodate. They rely on the fact that they can make a small profit with modern technology by selling only 150-350 copies of an academic monograph at a high price to a small number of libraries. All of these presses still have editors who go around universities and conferences prospecting for authors. You can often meet them at book displays at conferences.

Mostly, however, you will have to approach an editor yourself. The best way to do this is to ask a senior colleague or a mentor for an introduction, or at least for permission to use their name when you email an editor with a query. As with journals, the best way to choose a press is to identify which press publishes books in your field that you admire and wish to emulate.

Publishers differ in their practices, but many presses will accept an initial submission in the form of a proposal. This could be a 5-20 page summary of the work, which tells the editor what the book is about, why it is new and special, what kind of research it’s based on, and something about the structure of the book (a chapter outline with abstracts of each chapter). It’s better to accompany the proposal with a sample chapter, which you’re already pretty happy with.

The university presses will almost certainly require you to go through peer review on the basis of a complete manuscript. They may issue you a contract but it will include a clause reserving the right to accept or reject the final manuscript on the basis of peer review.