Royal Historical Society Report of Council 2014-15

ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY

REPORT OF COUNCIL

SESSION 2014 – 2015

Officers and Council

At the Anniversary Meeting on 28 November 2014 the Officers of the Society were re-elected.

The Officers retiring under By-law XXII were Dr I Archer (Literary Director).

Council appointed Professor A Pettegree in his place. Also Professor M Hughes

(Honorary Treasurer). Council appointed Professor S M Hamilton, BA, MA, PhD

in his place.

The Vice-Presidents retiring under By-law XVII were Professor N Miller and Professor A Pettegree. Ms S L Bardgett, BA and Professor S P Newman, BA, MA,

PhD were elected in their place.

The Members of Council retiring under By-law XX were Professor D Feldman, Professor A Musson and Dr A Thacker. Professor J S Barrow, MA, DPhil, Professor

E H Chalus, BEd, MA, DPhil, and Dr P E Skinner, BA, MPhil, PhD were elected

in their place.

The Society’s administrative staff consists of Dr Sue Carr, Executive Secretary, Mrs Melanie Ransom, Administrative Secretary and Dr Jane Gerson, Research and

Communications Officer.

Kingston Smith were re-appointed auditors for the year 2014-2015 under By-law

XXXIX.

Brewin Dolphin Securities were re-appointed to manage the Society’s investment funds.

Activities of the Society during the year

In the current session the Society continued to focus on widening its reach, both to serve its

Fellows and Members better, and to communicate with ever wider sections of the community

with an interest in advanced historical research. An important step forward was taken in the

autumn of 2014 with the launch of its new website, which now offers extensive resources aimed

specifically at early-career historians and at those with an interest in issues of public policy

concerning historians, and a growing video archive of our lectures and other public events, as

well as facilities for applying for Fellowship and Membership and research-support grants

online. Wholehearted thanks are owing to the Society’s long-suffering staff, whose work

routines are inevitably disrupted by such transitions, but which we hope will offer lasting, long-

term benefits in improving communications, simplifying administrative routines, and raising

the level of the service we offer to all our constituencies. In the next session it is hoped to

extend these online services to subscription payments and other financial transactions.

Such modernizations cost money in the short term (though they can save money in the long

term, as well). To address the financial future of the Society the President launched in this

session a development campaign to raise funds for specific projects from philanthropies and

for the enhancement of the endowment from other sympathizers. Two early gifts came from

the Linbury Trust (£12,500 to support the Gladstone Prize over the next five years) and from

Professor Peter Baldwin and Dr Lisbet Rausing, Fellows of the Society (£50,000 for the

endowment, half in the form of matching funds). The Society is deeply indebted to these

generous donors, and it is hoped that the Fellowship and Membership will now respond to the

challenge posed by the £25,000 matching fund, particularly in the next session when online

payment systems ought to be in place.

Reflecting the Society’s increasingly ambitious outreach, a number of policy initiatives were

undertaken that represent novel departures and to some extent new constituencies. The Society

now works very closely with History Lab and History Lab Plus, the postgraduate and

postdoctoral networks hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. One direct product of this

collaboration was a Code of Good Practice for Employing Temporary Teaching Staff in

History, published with History Lab Plus in August 2014. It has received considerable

attention in the educational press and in departments. In association with the IHR’s Public

History Seminar, a new scheme to award prizes for achievements in public history, across a

wide range of media, has been launched; the first prizes will be awarded in the next session.

The Society has also been collaborating with a group of historians of African and Caribbean

background to raise questions about the under-representation of these groups at all levels from

school examinations to academic employment. A conference on this subject was co-sponsored

by the Society on 25 April 2015. Probably the most important of these initiatives was the

Society’s long-awaited report on ‘Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher Education’,

released on 3 February 2015 to mark International Women’s Day. The report drew attention

to structural obstacles to gender equality in the academic profession at several discrete points

in the life cycle. It was the topic of extensive discussion at two purpose-designed symposia, in

London and in Glasgow, and also received comment in the specialist press and in many

departmental discussions around the country.

Two long-running public-policy issues continued to preoccupy the Society’s Council. The

Society has made considerable contributions to the debate over ‘Open Access’ to academic

publications, supportive of the principles of Open Access but determined to ensure that they

are implemented in ways that protect academic freedom and quality. To this end it has widely

distributed information sheets for historians on the Open Access mandates of both HEFCE and

RCUK; it was asked to provide oral testimony to the RCUK review of its policy; it made

considerable contributions to HEFCE’s thinking in the development of its own policy; and the

President was invited to join the Expert Reference Group of HEFCE’s Monographs and Open

Access Project, chaired by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, a Fellow of the Society. A notable

contribution has been made by bringing into the UK debate representatives of historians in the

US, who joined representatives of the funding bodies at a meeting organised by the Society in

September 2014. In order to practice what it preaches, the Society has also been engaged in a

lengthy internal debate over how to provide Open Access to its own publications, particularly

– because most difficult – its monographs. The other major public-policy issue requiring

continued attention has been the Coalition Government’s revision of the school curriculum. In

the current session the focus shifted from the National Curriculum to GCSE and A-Level

curricula. The Society works closely with all of the major examining bodies and was able to

provide specialist input to advise on the creation of new curricula that provide students with

sufficient depth and breadth in all the many varieties of history. More detail is provided below

in the report of the Education Policy Committee. In both these enterprises, and on other issues

of public-policy significance, the Society works closely with a range of other historical subject

associations – with whom it meets twice annually – and with other learned societies – in a loose

association, formerly the Arts and Humanities User Group, now the Arts and Humanities

Alliance. In doing so the Society seeks to contribute to raising the profile of historical research

in the public imagination as well as in the cogitations of funding bodies and government

departments.

RESEARCH POLICY COMMITTEE, 2014-15

The Research Policy Committee continued to coordinate and advise on the Society’s relations

with all the main bodies related to research funding and policy as well as on research and

research policy more generally. Responding to government and HE policy is an important

feature of this work, particularly when policy is changing fast. In addition, we have continued

our work equality and diversity, building on the high profile of our gender equality report and

our fruitful collaboration with Early Career Historians via History Lab Plus, the forum for

postdoctoral researchers hosted by the IHR .

REF 2014: Our response to REF 2014 has been a main feature of our work this year. Following

preliminary discussions as to how and where we should focus our response, we began to

interrogate the published data and have now completed research into Impact and begun to look

at Environment. Analysis of outputs and submitted staff - for example, the proportion of ECRs

- replicates the published data as there is little if any scope for additional analysis. Initial

discussion of our findings related to Impact, however, suggests that this review will provide

valuable information on the current shape of the discipline, the effect of the REF parameters

on current and future research, and equalities data. This will, in turn, inform responses during

the next consultation period.

Other policy areas include Open Access, which continues to be monitored, and the

government’s proposal for a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), outlined in the Green

Paper 6 November 2015. This was discussed at a joint meeting of the Research and Education

Policy Committees in the summer and will be responded to as a priority next year. The Society

is also currently responding to a call for evidence from the Independent Commission for

Freedom of Information, which is looking at how FOI operates, partly in the light of recent

court rulings. This is an important issue, particularly for contemporary historians, and will

affect future research practice.

Research Councils: The Society joined other History societies at a meeting of the Learned

Societies’ Liaison Group, convened by the Economic History Society, in July. Among the

items discussed was funding applications to the ESRC, where success rates for history and

history-related projects appear to have reduced sharply. This is a particular concern for

economic history, which is specified within the remit of the ESRC. This issue, and the related

one of overlap and/or duplication between the ESRC and the AHRC will be followed up at a

meeting in December, attended by representatives of both research councils as well as the

learned societies.

Equality and Diversity: The RHS Report on Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher

Education continues to have great impact, with events around the report being hosted at the

Universities of Hertfordshire, Leeds and as part of the doctoral training programme by the

White Rose and Midlands3Cities AHRC consortia. A series of role model interviews is also

in preparation for the website together with materials to support History departments working

towards an Equality Charter Mark. We thus continue to support the gender equality work and

are also looking to develop our policies around equality and diversity beyond gender, for

example by encouraging inclusive curricula at school and university level.

EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE, 2014-15

The Education Policy Committee considers all aspects of History in education from schools to

postgraduate level, and continues to gain valuable input from its co-opted members, Dr Andrew

Foster (representing the Historical Association), Dr Paul Corthorn (History UK), Mr Peter

D’Sena (the former HEA Subject Lead for History), Dr Michael Maddison (former Ofsted

National Adviser for History), and Michael Fordham, formerly senior teaching associate at the

University of Cambridge Faculty of Education and now Assistant Headteacher, West London

Free School and co-editor of Teaching History.

2014-15 was in some respects a less demanding but no less interesting year for education

policy, following the end of the most important reform processes initiated by the government

with reference to the School curriculum with implications for subject content. The Society

nevertheless remained in close contact with the Historical Association as we watched over the

first efforts of schoolteachers and curriculum developers to get to grips with the new

specifications (and it was very pleasing that this relationship was acknowledged in the award

of honorary fellowships of the Historical Association to both the President and Vice-President

(Education) in recognition of their contribution to the debates over education in the schools in

recent years). As with A-level, the first sight of plans for the new GCSEs suggested some

welcome developments, such as the appearance of some quite imaginative new elements in

curricula required to address a wider chronological range than was previously specified. We

remain disappointed alongside many others about the loss of the coursework element in

assessment, not least given its importance in modern teaching delivery in higher education,

while understanding the concerns that led to its disappearance. It is also clear that

schoolteachers will face a very challenging retooling process if they themselves studied

‘Modern World’ type school courses and continued with a modern focus in their subsequent

historical training. The RHS will seek to play its part in facilitating support from HE for this

process, and this will be a key focus of activity in 2015-16. Meanwhile, at both A and GCSE

levels, changes to the overall requirements about the framework of study at KS4 and 5,

alongside very significant changes to funding at post-16, are beginning to impact on the

curriculum choices available to and made by school students: we will continue to monitor these

effects as they go forward. Finally, there remain serious concerns about the impact of changes

to the pattern of teacher training away from the university bases of the past to the school-

focused approach currently favoured both on the exposure of trainees to subject-specialist

training and on the management of the supply of teachers to meet subject needs on a national

basis.

With activity on schools issues quietening this year, the Committee was able to devote more

attention to issues in HE. During the course of the year the Quality Assurance Agency

benchmarking document for History in HE was reissued following updating and revision by a

committee co-chaired by the Vice-President (Education). It can be consulted at

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Documents/SBS-history-14.pdf. As discussed in the last

report, this document has proved its value to History Departments in HE over the years, and

we hope that it will continue to do so: indeed, with one possible direction of the Teaching

Excellence Framework (TEF) currently being devised for the HE sector being a move to subject

specific definitions of what constitutes ‘good teaching’, it may come to have a particular

significance.

One other area that will almost certainly be addressed in the TEF is the perception of the need

for more formal training for teachers in HE. Last year we reported changes to the provision

made under the auspices of the Higher Education Academy which saw the support for subject

specific pedagogy withdrawn in favour of more generic themed work and a concentration on

the accreditation of university teachers. We indicated that we would seek in 2014-15 to do what

we could to sustain some of the excellent work done formerly under the HEA’s auspices to

sustain a discussion about good History pedagogy in the UK. We are delighted to report that

one of our committee members, Peter D’Sena, formerly the HEA subject lead, volunteered to

take the lead on this issue by organising a conference on Teaching History in HE which filled

the gap left by the withdrawal of HEA subject provision of this kind. The RHS underwrote the

costs of the conference which was held over two days in September 2015 at the Institute of

Historical Research in London. The conference was a great success, bringing together a large

international attendance drawn from a very wide range of institutions to hear papers both on

general themes and highlighting specific innovatory initiatives in teaching history. The

conference was preceded by a single-day workshop for new members of the teaching

profession in HE which attracted more than twice the numbers we had originally anticipated,

again supported by the RHS. This is new work for us, but an important demonstration of our

commitment to teaching alongside research: it also brought this to the attention of some parts

of the British historical profession in which the Society would seek to increase its

representation. We hope this is the beginning of an ongoing commitment to support such

activity and to explore other ways of supporting good subject pedagogy in collaboration with

History UK and other relevant partners. The Committee is enormously grateful to Peter D’Sena

for the time and effort he put in to making this all happen.

The importance of teaching in Universities at the moment is also provoking closer scrutiny of

the work and employment conditions of temporary staff and Graduate Teaching Assistants.

The RHS code of conduct for the employment of such teachers has received considerable

attention and has been widely welcomed. To supplement this and taking advantage of the new

website, the guidance to early career historians (note not ‘early career researchers’) offered

there now includes a substantial body of advice on how much and what sort of teaching to

undertake when setting out on an academic career.

GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE, 2014-15

The remit of this committee ranges across many activities of the Society. It receives suggestions

from Fellows and Council for paper-givers and makes recommendations to Council on the Card

of Session, taking into account the need for a balanced programme in terms of chronological

and geographical spread. In addition to the regular sessions held at UCL and outside London,

it is also responsible for the Prothero Lecture, the Colin Matthew Lecture and the Gerald

Aylmer Seminar.

After discussion with the Literary Directors, the General Purposes Committee committed itself

to deciding the Card of Session for two years ahead. Giving invited speakers more time to

prepare, it was thought, would help ensure a high standard of papers for both delivery and

subsequent publication.

The programme of lectures and visits for 2014 was confirmed, including visits to the University

of East Anglia in April and the University of Huddersfield in October. Proposals for 2015 and

2016 were discussed and speakers invited. Regional symposia and visits to the De Montfort

University and the University of Northampton took place in 2015. The Committee continues

to review the purpose and success of both lectures and visits, and to consider ways of increasing

their reach, for example through podcasting and repeat lectures. The Committee was pleased

to receive several proposals for regional symposia, and would like to encourage more

departments to make such proposals. The 2015 Gerald Aylmer Seminar was held in February

on ‘Secret Histories’ and discussions with TNA and the IHR for the 2016 seminar are under

way.

The Committee is also responsible for the appointment of assessors for the Society’s prizes,

and receives their reports and proposals for award winners. It regularly reviews the terms and

conditions of the awards. The Society is extremely grateful to members of Council for their

hard work in reading entries and selecting the prize winners.

This year the Committee has also considered broader administrative and developmental issues

aimed at raising the Society’s profile within the academic community. Several initiatives have

resulted from the questionnaire circulated to the membership. Work on the website and on the

database of Fellows and Members, past and present, has continued.

A new Public History Prize has been established, arising from an initiative by the Public

History Seminar of the Institute of Historical Research. A judging panel has been set up,

chaired by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, and nominations for a prizes in the following

categories: museums and exhibitions, film, broadcasting, web-based projects and print

publications for a general audience, have been invited from the broader historical community.

The prize will be awarded for the first time in 2015.

Meetings of the Society

At the ordinary meetings of the Society the following papers were read:

Prothero Lecture: ‘Richard Wagner and the German Empire’, Professor Tim Blanning (2 July

2014)

‘Minding her own business: married women’s credit networks in early eighteenth-century

London’, Dr Alex Shepard (21 October 2014)

At the Anniversary Meeting on 22 November 2013, the President, Professor Peter Mandler

delivered his first address on ‘Educating the Nation I: Universities’.

‘”Protestantism” as a Historical Category’, Professor Alec Ryrie (6 February 2015)

‘Better off dead than disfigured? The challenges of facial injury in the premodern past’, Dr

Patricia Skinner (8 May 2015)

The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of History was given on

Wednesday 12 November 2014 by Professor Tim Hitchcock and Professor Robert Shoemaker

‘Making History Online’. These lectures continue to be given in memory of the late Professor

Colin Matthew, a former Literary Director and Vice-President of the Society.

Prizes

The Society’s annual prizes were awarded as follows:

The Alexander Prize for 2014 attracted nine entries and was awarded to Ryan Hanley for his

article ‘Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’, in Slavery and

Abolition, 35, 1 (2014)

The judges’ citation read:

This article addresses what the title indicates directly and clearly. The author has done

extensive research on the life of Gronniosaw, a former slave who gained his freedom and

travelled to England in the 1760s/70s, exploring in particular his Calvinist, Baptist and Quaker

connections. The argument is centred on the need to explain why Gronniosaw’s memoir

supported slavery, which the author alleges convincingly is the reason that other historians

have side-lined it: subsequent slave narratives were produced as part of the anti-slavery

movement and opposed slavery. The explanation is that eighteenth-century Calvinism,

especially that of Selina Hastings, herself a slave owner, conceptualised slavery under Christian

owners as a means of bringing slaves to God, and as preferable to African heathenism or

enslavement to non-Christians. The argument is original and convincing, the article is

rigorously researched and engages well with the relevant historiography, and the piece makes

a significant contribution to scholarship.

The David Berry Prize for an article on Scottish history for 2014 attracted three entries and was

awarded to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for her essay ‘Liberalism, Scottish Nationalism and the Home

Rule Cris, c.1886-93’ in English Historical Review, 129 (2014)

The Gladstone Book Prize for a first book on non-British history attracted twenty entries.

The Prize for 2014 was awarded jointly to:

Andrew Arsan for Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West

Africa (Hurst, 2014).


This is a deeply researched and at time quite riveting story of the largest non-African diaspora

of West Africa, namely the Lebanese who immigrated to French West Africa. Arsan’s

sophisticated, deeply researched and highly crafted study illuminates Eastern Mediterranean

men and women adjusting to life in a new environment, and the particular roles they came to

play in the economy and society of French West Africa. This is transnational history of the

very best kind, showing a profound understanding of both host nations and immigrants, and

shedding light on migration, empire, politics, race and economics through the stories of

individuals and family businesses.

and to

Lucie Ryzova for The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt

(Oxford University Press, 2014).


This fascinating study examines social, cultural and political backgrounds and identities of the

efendiyya, the professional middle class elite who emerged in colonial era Egypt. Straddling

‘authentic’ and ‘modern’ Egypt, effendi culture was powerfully aspirational, as this broad-

ranging and ambitious study shows. The methodological focus on ‘vintage paper’ - cheap

print, photographs and other cultural ephemera - gives the book a lightness of touch that

nevertheless does not disguise the sophistication of thought and interpretation. The integration

of the fictionalized lives found in novels and films and the ‘real’ lives presented in

autobiographies, for example, is both inventive and a model of explanatory power.

The Society’s Rees Davies Essay Prize for the best dissertation as part of a one-year full-time

(or two-year part-time) postgraduate Master’s degree in a UK Institution of Higher Education

attracted four entries.

The Prize for 2014 was awarded to:

Daniel Patterson for his essay on ‘Becoming a man in Early Modern Britain: personal

experiences of masculinity c. 1660-1700’.


This is an erudite and thoughtful dissertation, which succinctly defines its subject area and the

research question it seeks to answer. It successfully brings together two areas of historical

research which have largely developed along separate trajectories: the history of early-modern

masculinity and the history of the self or ‘self-fashioning’. Its criticism of previous approaches

to the subject is incisive, and the proposed remedy – the use of descriptive rather than

prescriptive sources – is persuasive. Similarly, its emphasis on the significance of religion,

especially Calvinism, on the development of early-modern attitudes towards masculinity offers

new and significant insights. This is an impressive dissertation, presenting a convincing thesis.

The Whitfield Prize for a first book on a subject within a field of British or Irish history attracted

thirty-two entries.

The Prize for 2014 was awarded to:

John Sabapathy for Officers and Accountability in Medieval England, 1170-1300 (Oxford

University Press, 2014)


John Sabapathy's Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 is a hugely

rewarding book, sophisticated and important, and one which both demands and repays close

attention. At its core, it is a study of the development of procedures of accountability as a means

of controlling the conduct of officers, but it uses its subject to present an impressively rich and

subtle account of the mentality of government. It is concerned not only with the 'state', but also

with seigniorial, ecclesiastical, university and urban officers, and, while Anglocentric, England

is always set firmly within a comparative European context. The material with which

Sabapathy works is unpromising, and the technical skills that he brings to its study are hugely

impressive. These skills are matched by larger ambitions. Simply to conceptualize the topic in

the way that he has done, and that itself advances the historical agenda, demonstrates

extraordinary intellectual skills. The study itself is deeply rich and subtle, with a firm

theoretical grounding, and it successfully opens out a range of important historical questions,

giving it a resonance well beyond medieval history. Officers and Accountability is a highly

original work which will surely stimulate debate and further research for many years; it really

is new administrative history.

The judges named a proxime accessit

Mo Moulton for Ireland and the Irish in interwar England (Cambridge University Press,

2014)


Mo Moulton has taken a neglected subject, the Irish in England in the two decades after the

end of the Anglo-Irish war, to produce a rich and multi-faceted study that casts light on both

England and Ireland in the interwar period and contains echoes and anticipations of wider post-

colonial history. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the book is its range, weaving together

political, social and cultural themes in a manner that is almost seamless. The account that she

has constructed is very rich and intricate, providing fresh and sharply observed insights at every

turn. All of this is underpinned by careful and sensitive research; the manner in which the tone

of various pieces of evidence is judged and calibrated is highly assured, revealing a deep

understanding of the complexities of the subject. Ireland and the Irish is also a very engaging

read. It is a model of multi-disciplinary research on modern British history and has a great deal

to offer specialist and non-specialist alike.

In order to recognise the high quality of work now being produced at undergraduate level in

the form of third-year dissertations, the Society continued, in association with History Today

and History Scotland magazines, to award an annual prize for the best undergraduate

dissertation. Departments are asked to nominate annually their best dissertation and joint

committees of the Society and History Today and History Scotland select in the autumn the

national prizewinners from among these nominations. The prize also recognizes the Society’s

close relations with History Today and History Scotland and the important role the magazines

have played in disseminating scholarly research to a wider audience. Thirty-two submissions

were made.

The History Today 2014 Prize was awarded to:

Rebecca Pyne-Edwards Banks (University of Derby) for her essay ‘Cutting Through the

Gordian Knot: The British Military Service Tribunals During the Great War’.

An article by the prize-winner presenting his research will appear in History Today in 2015.

The History Scotland, 2014 prize was awarded to:

Jamie Kelly (University of Glasgow) for his essay ‘”It is a work that all who profess

Christianity should be assisting in”: A Study of the Origins, Operation and Impact pf the

Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Highlands and Islands, 1680-

1800’.

The essay will be published in a future edition of History Scotland.

The German History Society, in association with the Society, agrees to award a prize to the

winner of an essay competition. The essay, on any aspect of German history, including the

history of German-speaking people both within and beyond Europe, was open to any

postgraduate registered for a degree in a university in either the United Kingdom or the

Republic of Ireland.

The prize for 2014 was awarded to Martin Christ for his essay “When God Turns Away the

Devil Takes His Place: The Council Annals of Johannes Hass and the Changing Nature of

Divine Intervention in the Early Sixteenth Century’.

The Frampton and Beazley Prizes for A-level performances in 2014 were awarded to the

following on the basis of nominations from the examining bodies:

Frampton Prize:

OCR: Paloma Vince (Farnborough Hill School)

AQA: Phoebe Homer (Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam)

WJEC: Joseph Maggs (Olfcha School, Swansea)

Beazley Prize:

SQA: Loui Marchant (The Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh)

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE 2014-15

The Publications Committee remains responsible for the ongoing programme: Professor Emma

Griffin represents the Society’s interests on the Studies in History Editorial Board, while

Professor Andrew Pettegree edits Transactions, and they share responsibility for Camden

volumes. Professor Stephen Taylor is Honorary Academic Editor of the Bibliography of British

and Irish History (BBIH).

Transactions, Sixth Series, Volume 23 was published during the session, and Transactions,

Sixth Series, Volume 23 went to press.

In the Camden, Fifth Series A Knight of Malta at the court of Elizabeth I: the correspondence

of Michel de Seure, French Ambassador 1560-62, ed. David Potter (vol. 45), and Constitution

Maker. Selected Writings of Sir Ivor Jennings, ed. Harshan Kumarasingham (vol. 46) were

published during the session.

The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family: Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke,

1145-1248, ed. David Crouch (vol. 47) and Papal Authority and the Limits of the Law in Tudor

England. Camden Miscellany XXXVI, eds Peter Clarke and Michael Questier (vol. 48) went to

press for publication in 2014-15.

The past twelve months have seen a fairly steady flow of good quality proposals, some in an

advanced state of preparation. The calendar for 2015-16 and 2016-17 is currently filled, though

the Literary Directors continue to welcome new proposals for texts which relate to any area of

British history.

The Studies in History Editorial Board continued to meet throughout the year. The following

volumes went to press during the session for publication in 2015:

o Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788-1850, Michael Gladwin

o Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen, Elma Brenner

o The royal touch in early modern England: politics, medicine and sin, Stephen Brogan

The new Series Convenor, Professor Mike Braddick, stepped down in 2014 after less than one

year’s service, and Emma Griffin stood in as acting Series Convenor whilst a search for a new

convenor was undertaken. Vanessa Harding very generously agreed to take on this role and

took over in May 2015. The series has a number of manuscripts under development, but a

number of these have been with their authors for a lengthy period and it must be feared that not

all will make it to publication. The flow of good quality proposals has slowed over the past

twenty-four months and following consultation with the SIHS editorial board, the RHS

publications committee and Council, Council decided at its meeting in July to close the series

and takes steps towards the establishment of a new series, potentially including monographs,

shorter form works and edited collections, which will be Open Access. At the September

meeting of the SIHS editorial board, members of the board expressed a willingness to continue

serving on the board through the transition to a new series.

The Society acknowledges its gratitude for the continuing subventions from the Economic

History Society and the Past & Present Society to the Studies in History series.

As in previous years, volumes in the Camden and Studies in History Series were offered to the

membership at a favourably discounted price. Many Fellows and Members accepted the offer

for volumes published during the year, and the advance order for further volumes to be

published in the year 2014-2015 were encouraging. Boydell and Brewer’s decision to republish

a number of titles in a paperback format has proved extremely successful and it is intended to

extend the selection from the backlist that will be made available in this form. Next year will

see some of the series become available as e-publications for the first time, and the Committee

is evaluating the likely the impact of developments in open access publishing on its series.

During 2015 the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) continued to develop

smoothly, thanks above all to the work of Peter Salt, Simon Baker and the team of academic

section editors. Just over 14,000 records have been added to the database this year. This

represents a decrease on the final figure for 2014 (over 16,000), but this figure was inflated by

the transition to a new feed for the details of many articles, which has significantly increased

the speed with which new articles are added to the Bibliography. Brepols (our publisher)

continues to make minor improvements to the user interface. The major development this year,

however, has been a new input platform, which we expect to come into operation in 2015. The

Project Board, bringing together the academic project team, Brepols and representatives of

various user groups, met as usual in July and provided further useful feedback and advice on

the development of the Bibliography.

Finance

FINANCE COMMITTEE 2014-15

The Finance Committee approves the Society’s accounts each financial year and its estimates

for the following year. This year, as before, the accounts were professionally audited by

Kingston Smith. They are presented on the RHS website together with the Trustees’ Annual

Report.

The Society’s expenditure was broadly in line with estimates. Income was somewhat higher

than anticipated, due once again to greater than expected revenue from the joint publishing

agreement with Cambridge University Press (as a result of the on-going sales of the new digital

archive). The recent increase in subscriptions also resulted in substantially higher revenue. The

Society is declaring a small surplus of £4, 945 for the year 2014-15 (in 2013-14, £27, 922); it

should also be noted that this small surplus includes a one-off donation of £25,000.

The Society has run a surplus for a number of years, which has allowed it to build up a cash

reserve. Finance Committee recognises that the coming years will be much more challenging

financially than recent years, as signified by the decline in the levels of surplus from the

previous year, particularly as the windfall income from the digitisation component of the

publishing agreement with Cambridge University Press is forecast to decline sharply. In

addition the Society has during the year made considerable progress on a thorough overhaul of

its communications strategy and back-office functions that entails considerable expenditure. It

is for this reason that the Society anticipates continuing to hold a substantial cash reserve in the

expectation that it will be drawn down in future years to cover a series of planned in-year

deficits. We had in fact anticipated running a deficit in 2014-15 but some of the expenditure

relating to the changes in our new communications strategy and back-office functions will not

now be incurred until 2015-16: this is due to problems with contractor originally chosen to

deliver the back-office functions. The deficit for 2015-16 is therefore likely to be substantial

given that much of the anticipated expenditure will occur in this financial year.

The value of the Society’s investments rose to £2.92 million in June 2015, an increase from the

previous year's figure of £2.78 million. The Society, as in previous years, drew £78,000 from

the portfolio to support its activities. The Society's portfolio is invested for the long-term and

members of Finance Committee are confident that the current spread of investments is

appropriate. Finance Committee maintained the Investment Policy approved in 2013-4 during

the year. This policy lays down the important role played by income from the investment

portfolio in supporting the Society’s activities, and notes that it is managed with the objective

of preserving (and ideally enhancing) its real value over time. Such a strategy ensures a balance

between the needs of current and future beneficiaries. The Policy will be reviewed in 2015-

16.

Council records with gratitude the benefactions made to the Society by:

Dr R W Baldock

Dr S Banks

Professor R P Bartlett

Professor D R Bates

Ms G Bennett

Professor C N L Brooke

Ms A Bullen

The Reverend Dr P A Butler

Dr G F Burgess

Professor B M S Campbell

Dr A C Chitnis

Professor D Cohen

Dr H J Cohn

Professor C R Cole

Professor S J Connolly

The Lord Cormack

Dr C G V Coutinho

Dr P Cunich

Dr C R J Currie

Dr S W Davies

Dr D L Drakeman

Economic History Society

Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton

Professor M C Finn

Professor J C Fox

Dr J B Gerson

Reverend Canon J N Greaves

Dr I A Gregg

Professor R A Griffiths

Dr R P Hallion

Colonel C M Hansen

Miss E Hansen

Dr C Hashimoto

Miss B F Harvey

History Workshop Journal

Professor J Innes

Professor T Keymer

Professor E J King

Dr L M Kirk

The Linbury Trust

Professor M Lynn

Dr J R Macleod

Professor P Mandler

Professor S E Marks

Professor P J Marshall

Dr D E Palk

Past & Present Society

Professor C R Perry

Professor S E Prall

Sir George Prothero

Dr S Qureshi

Professor I L E Ramelli

Professor R A J Rathbone

Lieutenant Colonel Dr H E Raugh

Dr L Rausing

The Rausing Trust

Professor G W Rice

Professor J C Robertson

Dr K W Schweizer

Dr P E Skinner

Professor Q R D Skinner

Professor B G C Smith

Professor D P Smyth

Dr J Stuart

Dr A F Sutton

Dr G P Tapsell

Professor R J Toye

Professor L Ugolini

Dr E M Veale

Professor J P Von Arx

Professor A M Walsham

Mr T V Ward

Professor C M Waters

Dr K D Watson

Professor B J Wendt

Dr J Whaley

Professor C J Wickham

Professor L L Witherell

Captain R M Woodman

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE 2014-15

The following were elected to the Fellowship:

Lynn Abrams, BA, PhD

Nathan Abrams, BA, MA, MA, PhD

Lesley Adkins, BA, MPhil

Roy Adkins, BA

Tara Alberts, BA, MPhil, PhD

Alan Allport, BSc, MA, PhD

Gregorio Alonso, BA, MA, PhD

Roham Alvandi, BA, MALD, MPhil, DPhil

Remy Ambuhl, PhD

Stephen Banks, BA, MA, LLB, PhD

Suzanne Bardgett, BA

Karl Bell, BA, MA, PhD, PGCE

Oleg Benesch, BA, MA, PhD

Paul Betts, BA, MA, PhD

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, BA, MA, PhD

Ted Booth, PhD

Lloyd Bowen, BA, MA, PhD

Georgina Brewis, PhD

Thomas Brooking, MA, PhD

Michael Brown, BA, PhD

Amanda Capern, BA, MA, PhD

Ana Carden-Coyne, BA, PhD

Michael Carter, BA, MA, PhD

Paul Cavill, MA, MSt, DPhil

David Chambers, BA, MSc, PhD

David Clampin, BA, MA, PhD

Mark Clavier, AB, MTS, PhD

Ann Coats, BA, MA, DPhil

Sarah Cockram, MA, MPhil, PhD

Deborah Cohen, PhD

Andrew Cormack, BA

Rory Cox, BA, MA, DPhil

Ronald Crawford, MA, BLitt, PhD

Richard Dale, BSc, PhD

Thomas Davies, MA, MPhil, DPhil

Michael De Nie, BA, MA, PhD

Elroy Dimson, PhD

Allan Doig, BA, BA, MA, PhD, MA, DPhil

Taylor Downing, BA

Shane Doyle, MA, MA, PhD

Robin Eagles, BA, MA, DPhil

Rebecca Earle, BA, MSc, MA, DPhil

David Edgerton, BA, PhD

Jennifer Evans, BA, MA, PhD

Heather Falvey, MSt, PhD

Elaine Farrell, BA, MA, PhD

Ian Forrest, MA, MPhil, DPhil

Katherine Foxhall, BA, MA, PhD

Helen Foxhall Forbes, BA, MPhil, PhD

Hugh Gault, BA, MA

Gary Gerstle, BA, MA, MA, PhD

John-Paul Ghobrial, BA, MPhil, MA, PhD

Anindita Ghosh, BA, MA, PhD

Bryan Glass, BA, MPhil, PhD

William Gould, MA, MPhil, PhD

Susan Grayzel, AB, MA, PhD

Clare Griffiths, BA, DPhil

Nicholas Guyatt, BA, MPhil, PhD

Sarah Hackett, BA, MA, PhD

David Hall, BA, MA, DPhil

Tara Hamling, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Geordan Hammond, BA, MA, PhD

Emma Hart, BA, MA, PhD

Kate Hill, BA, PhD

John Hosler, BA, MA, MA, PhD

Peter Howson, BSc, MA, MBA, PhD

William Hughes, BA, MA, PhD

Kathryn Hurlock, BA, PhD

Ali Kabiri, PhD

Douglas Kanter, PhD

Tom Keene, BA, PhD

Allan Kennedy, BA, MRes, PhD

Desmond King, BA, MA, PhD

Alexander Korb, MA, PhD

Kwasi Kwarteng, MA, PhD

Bart Lambert, BA, MA, PhD

David Lambert, MA, PhD

Elizabeth Lambourn, MA, PhD

Claire Langhamer, BA, PhD

Daniel Laqua, BA, MSt, PhD

Peter Larkham, BA, PhD

Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, BA, PhD

Jennifer Luff, PhD

Sharon MacDonald, BA, DPhil

Peter Mancall, AB, AM, PhD

Carmen Mangion, MA, PhD

Richard Marsden, BA, MA, PhD

Joseph Masheck, AB, MA, MLitt, PhD

Esther Mijers, MA, PhD

Henry Miller, BA, MA, PhD

James Moore, BA, PhD

David Motadel, MPhil, PhD

Doug Munro, BA, MA, PhD

Harry Munt, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Larry Neal, BA, PhD

Duncan Needham, BSc, MSc, MPhil, PhD

Eleanor Newbigin, BA, MPhil, PhD

Brian O’Connor, BA, MA, DPhil

Adrian O’Sullivan, BA, MA, DLitt, DPhil

Kiran Patel, BA, MA, PhD

Adrian Pearce, BA, MA, PhD

Cathryn Pearce, BA, M.Ed., MA, PhD

Daniel Peart, BA, MSc, PhD

Jill Pellew, BA, MA, MA, PhD

Giandomenico Piluso, BA/MA, PhD

Finn Pollard, BA, MSc, PhD

John Price, BA, PhD

Ilaria Ramelli, MA, MA, PhD

Tim Reinke-Williams, BA, MA, PhD

Kriston Rennie, BA, MLitt, PhD, LMS

Vivienne Richmond, BA, MRes, PhD

Christopher Ridgway, BA, DPhil

Felix Rosch, MA, MA, PhD

Julia Rudolph, PhD

Matthew Salisbury, BA, MSt, DPhil

Robert Scoble, BA, PhD

Daniel Scroop, BA, MA, DPhil

Berny Sebe, BA, MA, DPhil

Colin Shindler, BSc, MSc, PhD

Teddy Sim, BA, MA, PhD

Fiona Skillen, MA, MPhil, PhD

Susan Sommers, BA, MA, AM, PhD

Jane Stevens Crawshaw, MA, MPhil, PhD

Ad Stijnman, PhD

Kristan Stoddart, BA, MA, MSc, PGCTHE, PhD

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, BA, MA, DPhil

Liba Taub, PhD

Becky Taylor, BA, MA, DPhil

Andrew Thompson, MA, MPhil, PhD

Francesca Tinti, PhD

Richard Turnbull, BA, BA, MA, PhD

Andrekos Varnava, PhD

Darius von Guttner-Sporzynski, PhD

Adrian Webb, MA, PhD

Alban Webb, BA, MA, PhD

Todd Weir, PhD

Brett Whalen, MA, PhD

Robert Whan, BA, MA, PhD

Margaret Willes, BA

Adrian Williamson, MA, MPhil, PhD

Ruth Clayton Windscheffel, MA, MA, PhD

Simon Yarrow, BA, MA, DPhil

Over the year ending on 30 June 2015, 142 Fellows and 214 Members were elected, and the

total membership of the Society on that date was 3,765 (including 2,174 Fellows, 647 Retired

Fellows, 104 Emeritus Fellows, 82 Corresponding and Honorary Fellows, 11 Honorary Vice

Presidents, 35 Associates and 712 Members).

Professor Joanna Bourke (Fellow), Dr Susan Brigden (Fellow), Professor David Crouch

(Fellow) and Professor Stephen Smith (Fellow) were elected Fellows of the British Academy.

In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, the following honours were given:

Professor Thomas Devine (Fellow), a knighthood for services to the study of Scottish

History.

Professor David Eastwood (Fellow and former Literary Director of the Society) a knighthood

for services to Higher Education.

Professor Colin Jones (Honorary Vice-President - former President of the Society) CBE for

services to Historical Research and Higher Education.

Council was advised of and recorded with regret the deaths of 5 Fellows, 4 Emeritus Fellows,

10 Retired Fellows, 3 Corresponding Fellows and 2 Members.

Dr M E Aston Fellow

Dr I R Barnes Retired Fellow

Professor E C Black Retired Fellow

Dr R B Brooke Retired Fellow

Professor C W Brooks Fellow

Mr A Bryant Member

Professor P A R Calvert Fellow

Dr R Currie Retired Fellow

Dr D W Dean Emeritus Fellow

Professor I de Madariaga Retired Fellow

Professor K Glamann Corresponding Fellow

Dr G L Harriss Retired Fellow

Professor E W J Kerridge Fellow

Mr P S Lewis Fellow

Professor P G Mackesy Retired Fellow

Miss H Miller Emeritus Fellow

Professor E S Morgan Corresponding Fellow

Professor W S Powell Retired Fellow

Professor I A Roots Emeritus Fellow

Professor R B Rose Emeritus Fellow

Professor H M Spufford Retired Fellow

Professor Dr K O von Aretin Corresponding Fellow

Reverend Q H Wilson Member

Miss A Worde Retired Fellow

Grants

RESEARCH SUPPORT COMMITTEE 2014-15

The Committee met five times in the course of the year to distribute research funds to early

career historians (primarily research students but also recent PhDs not yet in full time

employment). The committee reviewed all applications and made 142 awards to researchers

from 39 different institutions. 14 of these grants were to support research within the UK, 37 to

support research outside the UK, 69 to allow advanced doctoral students as well as early career

researchers to attend conferences in order to deliver papers, and one, the Martin Lynn

Scholarship, to support research in Africa. In addition, the Committee made 32 awards to

conference and seminar organisers both to support the participation and attendance of early

career researchers and to fund sessions designed to develop students’ skills for academic

employment. The topics funded by the Committee reflect the Society’s contribution to a wide

spectrum of sub-fields within the historical discipline, as well as to interdisciplinary research

with a substantial historical component. Successful applicants’ end-of-award reports show how

Society funding enables early career researchers to conduct original archival research and/or

to gain feedback on their work in international settings. The quality of applications is very high

and regretfully some applications cannot be funded. For the last three years, however, research

support funds have been enhanced by generous grants from History Workshop Journal and Past

& Present, each of £5000. Awards made under the HWJ grant prioritise self-funded PhD

students, not in receipt of research council or other institutional funding; awards made under

the P&P grant allow us to provide support to researchers registered at institutions outside the

UK. The Society expresses its deep gratitude to these journals for their help in assisting our

initiatives in this area.

For the academic year 2014-15, the Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellowship was

awarded to Ben Taylor (King's College London) for research on ‘Technology, Policing and the

Engineering of an Electronic Surveillance State in Twentieth-Century Britain’. The Society’s

PJ Marshall Fellowship was awarded to Jennifer Keating (UCL) for research on ‘Space, Image

and Display in Russian Central Asia, 1865-1916’.

Travel to Conferences

o Amenah Abdulkarim, Queen Mary, University of London

Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World, Pennsylvania, 20th-

22nd March 2015

o Victoria Anker, University of Edinburgh

Cities and Citizens: 17th-Century Studies Conference, Durham, 13th-15th July 2015 *

o Megan Barford, University of Cambridge

Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies "Archive Futures: Operations,

Time, Objects, Collectives", Weimar, 14th-20th June 2015

o Charlotte Bennett, University of Oxford

Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Eighth Biennial Conference,

Vancouver, 24th-26th June 2015 **

o Rodolphe Billaud, Canterbury Christ Church University

Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6th-9th July 2015

o Emily Bridger, University of Exeter

African Studies Association 57th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, 20th-23rd November

2014

o Jennifer Brosnan, University of Leicester

Tenth Southern Conference on Women’s History Re-membering/Gendering: Women,

Historical Tourism, and Public History, Charleston, 11th-14th June 2015 **

o Rebecca Browett, Institute of Historical Research

Haskins Society Conference, Minnesota, 7th-9th November 2014 **

o Valentina Caldari, University of Kent

Sixteenth Century Society Conference, New Orleans, 16th-19th October 2014

o Daniel Callwood, Queen Mary, University of London

Annual Conference of the Social Science History Association, Toronto, 6th-9th

November 2014

o Alexandre Campsie, University of Cambridge

North American Conference on British Studies, Minnesota, 7th-9th November 2014

o Maria Cannon, Northumbria University

Social History Society Conference 2015, Portsmouth, 31st March – 2nd April 2015

o Laura Carter, University of Cambridge

North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting 2015, Arkansas, 13th-

15th November 2015

o Philip Child, University of Exeter

Shaping the Labour Party, Bangor, 23rd-24th March 2015

o Jordan Claridge, University of East Anglia

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6th-9th July 2015 **

o Stefano Colombo, University of Warwick

Citizens of Venice in History and Art II, Berlin, 26th-28th March 2015

o Malcolm Craig, University of Edinburgh

2014 Joint HOTCUS/BrANCH Annual Conference, Reading, 5th-7th September 2014

o Joseph Cronin, Queen Mary, University of London

Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years After the

Liberation of Auschwitz, London, 6th-8th January 2015

o Jessica Crown, University of Cambridge

The 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26th-28th

March 2015

o Lucy Dow, UCL

L’Institut Europeen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, Tours, 26th-27th

March 2014 *

o Stefan Drechsler, University of Aberdeen


o Clarck Drieshen, University of Leeds

History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland: Nuns’ Literacies – Medieval to

Modern, Glasgow, 29th-30th August 2014

o David Ellis, University of York

North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) 2014, Minneapolis, 9th-11th

November 2014

o Roberta Giubilini, Warburg Institute

Sixteenth Century Society Conference, New Orleans, 16th-19th October 2014

o Eilish Gregory, UCL

Early Modern Catholics in the British Isles and Europe: Integration or Separation?,

Durham, 1st-3rd July 2015 *

o Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer, University of Kent

St Louis University’s Third Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance

Studies, Missouri, 15th-17th June 2015

o Katherine Har, University of Oxford

British Legal History Conference, Reading, 8th-11th July 2015 **

o Alison Harthill, Cardiff University

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 14th-17th May 2015 *

o Philippa Hellawell, King’s College London

61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26th-28th March

2015

o Karolina Hutkova, University of Warwick

Business History Conference and European Business History Association Annual

Conference, Miami, 24th-28th June 2015 **

o Grace Huxford, University of Warwick

Alternate Spaces of War: 1914 to the Present, Plymouth, 6th-7th July 2015

o Cathryn Johnston, King’s College London

ICOHTEC “Technology in Times of Transition”, Brasov, 29th July – 2nd August 2014

o Matthew Kidd, University of Nottingham

North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting 2015, Arkansas, 13th-

15th November 2015 **

o Emma Levitt, University of Huddersfield

Kings and Queens 4: Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy, Lisbon, 24th-27th June 2015

o James Lloyd, University of Cambridge

Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 7th-11th July 2014 *

o Naomi Lloyd-Jones, King’s College London

International Conference Political History, Leiden, 4th-6th September 2014

o Simon Mackley, University of Exeter

Victorian Sustainability: British Association for Victorian Studies Conference,

Canterbury, 4th-6th September 2014

o Galina Mardilovich, University of Cambridge

Crossing Borders: Marianne Werefkin and the Cosmopolitan Women Artists in her

Circle, Bremen, 11th-12th September 2014

o Robin McCallum, Queen’s University Belfast

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 14th-17th May 2015

o Stuart Middleton, University of Cambridge

North American Conference on British Studies, Minneapolis, 7th-9th November 2014

**

o Duncan Money, University of Oxford

Southern African Historical Society Conference, Stellenbosch, 1st-3rd July 2015 **

o Rebecca Norris, University of Cambridge


2015

o Darren O’Byrne, University of Cambridge

German History Society Annual Conference, Maynooth, 4th-6th September 2014 and

A Life as a Lens: Using Individuals in Wider Historical Research, Roehampton, 12th

September 2014

o Daniel O’Neill, PhD, University of Nottingham

Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing, California, 28th-31st

May 2015

o Olena Palko, University of East Anglia

22nd International Conference of Europeanists Contradictions: Envisioning European

Futures, Paris, 8th-10th July 2015 **

o Emma Pauncefort, UCL

Cities in Europe, Cities in the World: 12th International Conference on Urban History,

Lisbon, 3rd-6th September 2014

o Sophie Pitman, University of Cambridge

Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Early Modern Era: 1500-1800, University of

California Santa Barbara, 27th-28th February 2015

o Ann Poulson, King’s College London

International Political History Conference, Leiden, 4th-6th September 2014 *

o Naomi Pullin, University of Warwick

Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26th-28th March 2015

o Joan Redmond, University of Cambridge


2015

o Aaron Rietkerk, LSE

Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,

Virginia, 25th-27th June 2015 **

o Nigel Ritchie, Queen Mary, University of London

'Turning Points in French History': 29th Annual Conference of the Society for the

Study of French History, St Andrews, 28th-30th June 2015 **

o Andrew Robinson, University of Ulster

65th Annual Conference of the International Commission for the History of

Representative & Parliamentary Institutions, Vienna, 3rd-5th September 2014

o Daniel Robinson, University of Cambridge

The Spiritual Geo-Politics of the Early Modern World (1500-1800), Vincennes, 13th-

14th March 2015

o Margaret Scull, King’s College London

Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Galway, 17th-19th

October 2014 *

o Cam Sharp Jones, University of Kent

Global Asias 3, Pennsylvania, 9th-11th April 2015

o Thomas Smith, Royal Holloway, University of London


o Malcolm Spencer, University of Oxford

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies 46th Annual Convention,

San Antonio, 20th-23rd November 2014 *

o Steven Taylor, University of Leicester

American Historical Association Conference, New York, 2nd-5th January 2015

o William Tullett, King’s College London


o Jan Vandeburie, University of Kent

7th Annual International Conference organised by ‘Media Latinitas’, Lyon, 10 th-13th

September 2014

o Floris Verhaart, University of Oxford

Sex in the Margins, California, 10th-12th October 2014

o Mark Vincent, University of East Anglia

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies 46th Annual Convention,

San Antonio, 20th-23rd November 2014

o Maarten Walraven, University of Manchester

German Studies Association Conference, Music and Sound Network, Kansas City,

17th-21st September 2014

o Sarah Ward, University of Oxford

Chined V: Shaping realities in news reporting from Early Modern English to the dawn

of the twentieth century, Oporto, 11th-13th June 2015 **

o James West, University of Manchester

Biennial Media & Civil Rights History Symposium, Columbia, South Carolina, 2nd-4th

April 2015

o Janet Weston, Birkbeck College, University of London


o Alice White, University of Kent

European Society for the History of the Human Sciences 33rd Annual Conference,

Oulu, 22nd-25th July 2014

o Gozde Yazici Corut, University of Manchester

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference,

Cambridge, 28th-30th March 2015

Research Expenses within the UK

o Gillian Allmond, Queen’s University Belfast

Archives and sites in West Lothian and Edinburgh, February 2015

o Victoria Anker, University of Edinburgh

Archives in London and Oxford, November 2014 **

o Rajpreet Atwal, University of Oxford

Archives in Windsor, May 2015

o Rachel Basch, Royal Holloway, University of London

Archives in Ipswich, Norwich, Chester and Lincoln, March – April 2015

o Eliud Biegon, University of Cambridge

Archives in Oxford, August 2014 **

o Milosz Cybowski, University of Southampton

Archives in London, June – August 2015 **

o Giulio D’Errico, Aberystwyth University

Archives and interviews in Bristol, January – March 2015

o Eilish Gregory, UCL

Archives in Reading, Warwick, Cambridge and Oxford, 1st September – 13th

November 2014

o Claire Halstead, University of Western Ontario

Archives in London and Brighton, July 2014 **

o Harry Raffal, University of Hull

Archives in London, January – September 2015 *

o Thomas Rodger, Durham University

Archives in Oxford and London, January 2015

o Abhijit Sarkar, University of Oxford

Archives in London, June 2015 **

o Kristan Tetens, University of Leicester

Archives in Douglas, August 2014 **

o Ruth Wainman, University of Kent

Archives in London, August 2014

Research Expenses outside the UK

o Nathan Alexander, University of St Andrews

Archives in the USA, January 2015

o Lara Atkin, Queen Mary, University of London

Archives in South Africa, June 2015

o Sylwia Bobryk, University of Portsmouth

Archives and interviews in Poland, August – September 2014

o Melissa Bennett, University of Warwick

Archives and site visits in Jamaica and the Bahamas, January – February 2016

o Julia Binter, University of Oxford

Archives and interviews in Nigeria, October 2014 – September 2015 **

o Philip Booth, Lancaster University

Digital copies of manuscripts from archives in Germany

o Anna Brinkman, King’s College London

Archives in Spain, August 2014 *

o Antonino Crisa, University of Leicester

Archives in Italy, August – September 2014 *

o Luca Fenoglio, University of Edinburgh

Archives in Italy, October 2014 **

o Renard Gluzman, Tel-Aviv University

Archives in Italy, May – August 2015 **

o Sarah Hellawell, Northumbria University

Archives in the USA, November 2014 **

o Gillian Jack, University of St Andrews

Archives in Italy, January – June 2015

o Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University

Archives in the Czech Republic, June 2015

o Charles Jones, University of St Andrews

Archives in Germany, August – September 2015

o Thomas Jones, UCL

Archives in Russia, March – June 2015

o Amy Kavanagh, King’s College London

Archives in India, February 2015 *

o Rebecca Korbet-Wootton, King’s College London

Archives in Switzerland, December 2014

o Jin Li Lim, LSE

Archives in Hong Kong and China, April 2015

o Maria Marchi, University of St Andrews

Archives in Italy, February – March 2015

o Alberto Marti, University of Nottingham

Archives, interviews and archaeological field survey in Cuba, December 2014 –

January 2015

o Grace McGrath, Queen’s University Belfast

Archives in Jamaica, November 2014 **

o Pete Millwood, LSE

Archives in the USA, August 2015

o Emily Mitchelson, University of Newcastle

Archives in the Republic of Ireland, June 2015 *

o Richard Morris, University of Leicester

Archives in South Africa, January 2015

o Kellie Moss, University of Leicester

Archives in Australia, July 2014 **

o Marta Musso, University of Cambridge

Archives and interviews in France, February – June 2015

o Rudolph Ng, University of Cambridge

Archives in Cuba, Peru and Chile, March – November 2015

o Jack Noe, University of Leeds

Archives in the USA, March 2015 *

o Idir Ouahes, University of Exeter

Archives in the USA, November 2014

o George Regkoukos, King’s College London

Archives in Finland, December 2014 *

o Greg Salazar, University of Cambridge

Archives in the USA and the UK, June – July 2015

o Cornelis Schilt, University of Sussex

Archives and training in the USA, October – November 2014

o Miriam Schneider, University of St Andrews

Archives in Greece, September 2014

o Miriam Schneider, University of St Andrews

Archives in Denmark, March 2015

o Heidi Stoner, University of York

Archives and site visits in Norway, August 2014 *

o William Styles, University of Cambridge

Archives in the USA, January 2015

o Simon Toner, LSE

Archives in Vietnam, July – September 2014

Conference Organisation

o Julie Barrau

Thirteenth-Century England Conference, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 7th-9th

September 2015

o Anna Barry

Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Hull, 20th May 2015

o Hannah Buckingham

The Material Culture of the Latin East, Cardiff University, 16th-18th September 2016

o Sarah Campbell

Nationalism and Internationalism in Labour History, Newcastle upon Tyne, 25th April

2015

o Tessa Chynoweth

Challenges in the History of Childhood, London, 16th January 2015

o Marc Collinson

Shaping the Labour Party, Bangor, 23rd-24th March 2015

o Johanna Conterio

Landscapes of Health: The Black Sea in the Socialist World, London, 6th February

2015

o Trevor Dean

After Margaret Spufford: English Local History, Roehampton, 19th-20th June 2015

o Rachel Delman

Parenthood and Childhood in the Middle Ages, Edinburgh, 8th October 2015

o Rhun Emlyn

Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Bangor, 3rd September

2015

o Mary Farrelly

Transatlantic Transverberations: Iberian Mysticism in a Global Context, St John's

College, University of Cambridge, 25th-26th September 2015

o Jana Gajdosova

International Bridges Group Symposium, United Kingdom, 27th-28th June 2015 o Stefania Gargioni

Anglo-French Information Exchange in the Long Sixteenth Century: An

Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Kent, 27th November 2015

o Julie Gottlieb

Rethinking Right-Women: Gender, Women, and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the

Present, Oxford, 29th-30th June 2015

o Signy Gutnick Allen

Public and Private in the History of Political Thought: 2015 London Graduate

Conference in the History of Political Thought, Institute of Historical Research, 5th-6th

June 2015

o Siobhan Hearne

Science, State and Society 1870-1935, United Kingdom, 3rd-4th September 2015

o Kate Imy

The History of the Body: Approaches and Directions, London, 16th May 2015

o Kevin Killeen

Epistolary cultures - letters and letter-writing in early modern Europe, Humanities

Research Centre, York, 18th-19th March 2016

o Naomi Lloyd-Jones

United Kingdom? Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History, London,

20th February 2015

o Charlotte Mallinson

The University of Huddersfield Postgraduate Conference for History, Heritage and

Historic Archaeology, University of Huddersfield, 10th July 2015

o Anna Mercer

Difficult Women 1680-1830, York, 28th November 2015

o Frank Muller

“Winning Their Trust and Affection” – Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in

19th-Century Europe, University of St Andrews, 28th-29th August 2015

o Frances Murray

Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, St Andrews, 7th May 2015

o Kathryn Olivarius

Consent in Early America, 1600-1900, Oxford, 10th-11th March 2015

o Steven Orman

Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess (1624): A symposium and script-in-hand

performance of the play, Canterbury Christ Church University, 4th July 2015

o Daniel Power

The Medieval and Early Modern Garden: Enclosure and Transformation, Swansea

University, 4th-5th June 2015

o David Swift

The First World War: Commemoration & Memory, Manchester, 27th February 2016

o Joan Tumblety

Physicians, persuasion and politics: lobbying and culture in Britain and France,

c.1780-1940, University of Southampton, 6th-7th July 2015

o Karine Varley

France and the Second World War in Global Perspective, 1919-45, Glasgow, 2nd July

2015

o Garthine Walker

Historicising Rape, Cardiff University, 8th-10th July 2015

o Roisin Watson

Religious Identities and Material Landscapes in Early Modern Europe, London, 29 th

May 2015

o Todd Weir

The Interwar Kulturkampf: Transnational Struggles over Secularism, Belfast, 25th

June 2015

Martin Lynn Scholarship

o George Roberts, University of Warwick

Archives and interviews in Tanzania, June – September 2015

* These grants were generously funded by History Workshop Journal.

** These grants were generously funded by Past & Present.