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ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Newsletter New Series, 12, October 2013 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY newsletter new series, 12, October 2013 Presidential Letter Peter Mandler In the last newsletter I drew attention co-opted representatives from a range of to the work that the Society does for interested parties (the National Archives, the health of the historical discipline, the Historical Association, the university IN THIS ISSUE and particularly the several strands of departments as represented by History our publishing programme. We continue UK and the early career network History with that theme in this issue by looking Lab Plus), and chaired by two of our Vice- Presidential Letter at the wider range of historical societies’ Presidents (currently Professors Arthur 1-2 publishing. But for my own part I will turn Burns and Nicola Miller, to whom we owe to the two issues that have preoccupied much of the success I have to report here). The Role of Record Societies us for most of the last year; and here I As of August we have now also taken on 3 have some modestly positive results to a new member of staff, Dr Jane Gerson, report, which I hope will mean that we as Research and Communications Officer, Forthcoming Events have more time and energy to take up whom we are delighted to welcome 3 other pressing issues in the coming months. (though she is already an old friend, having To provide context, it is worth saying that served previously as maternity cover for The Royal Society of over the last fifteen years, the period in our Administrative Secretary, Melanie Antiquaries of Ire- which I have been closely involved with Ransom – welcome back, Mel!). Jane’s land the Society, it has devoted more and more initial task will focus on managing our 4-5 time to issues of public policy, and also, ambitious new project to revamp our web I think, has been taken more and more presence, but over time she will take on The Scottish Record seriously by pundits and policymakers. more responsibility for research on policy Society 6-7 Over this period we have contributed a issues and external relations with the good deal to public discussion of Freedom media, government and other interest The Berkshire Record of Information and Data Protection, as groups, and supporting our Hon. Director Society they affect historical research, to the of Communications, Professor Jo Fox. 8-9 30 (now 20) year rule governing public This kind of effort repays every second records, to government funding for and every penny invested in it, as can be The Chetham Society 10-11 humanities research (postgraduate and illustrated with a quick look at those two postdoctoral), and to the impact of fees preoccupations of recent months, the Presidential Address on subject choice at undergraduate level. School Curriculum and Open Access. As 12 We have set up two standing committees, I’m sure most people will agree, the school on Education and Research Policy, with curriculum was overdue for refreshment – especially at GCSE, the weak link in the chain, a consensus around some of the reforms. We 2 where syllabi had become stereotyped and overly think government is likely to listen to us more focused on the 20th-century. When the current carefully in future. And we were very impressed Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, at how well all kinds of historians – academics, first came into office, we met with him (thanks to teachers, researchers – worked together towards the good offices of our friend Lord Cormack) and common goals. We hope to contribute in future pressed some key reforms on him – notably the need to providing resources that will assist teachers to make it impossible any longer to study only 20th- in delivering some demanding new curricula. century history for 5 consecutive years, Years 9-13. Fellows and Members will not need much further Unfortunately the course of policy in the intervening detail under the other main heading, Open Access, years cannot be said to have run smooth. What to us as I provided a lengthy update in a letter to you seemed an uncoordinated and unconvincing set of all in June (still available on our website, as are changes was proposed, often without much serious most of our public contributions to the policy discussion or consultation, then withdrawn, only debates). Looking back on our role in debates to resurface rejigged after a new phase of equally since last autumn, however, I can again say that our mysterious internal cogitations. At every point interventions have had a real impact and raised our where we had an opportunity, we engaged in lively profile for the future. The Research Councils’ Open and direct discussions with the Department for Access policy has been revised to accommodate Education and its quangoes, working very closely and some of our objections and will be reviewed next in impressive agreement with our colleagues in the year, with our active participation. The Funding teaching profession from the Historical Association. Councils’ Open Access policy is still in formation I’m pleased to say that the outcomes, only now – this is the part that applies to all university- just trickling out, are generally happier than at first employed academics. But their first draft has taken seemed likely. A small working group with which both on board our concerns about international journals, the HA and the RHS have been associated has been licences, and early-career researchers. We will be reworking the proposals for the national curriculum pressing them strongly to nail down the key points. and GCSE into a form that commands much wider HEFCE has asked me to join its reference group on support. It may still be objected that the national Open Access monographs. We have been working curriculum is too focused on British history, but it closely with Professor Chris Wickham, the historian now provides more opportunities for study of the who has been leading on Open Access for the British wider world, and requires younger children to learn Academy, and with journal editors, to monitor the some modern history and older children to study effect of new policies on our journals at home some pre-modern history, instead of the unrelenting and abroad. We think it has become clearer to chronological progression originally prescribed policymakers, thanks in large part to our efforts, that that would have restricted all pre-modern history academic policy can’t be made on a science model to primary school. The latest draft of the GCSE without seriously and in detail taking the distinctive specification now being finalized indicates that in needs of the arts and humanities into account. future GCSE will offer a much richer diet for 14-16 year Ideally, by the time of the next newsletter in the olds, including opportunities to cover longer sweeps spring, I will be able to address other matters entirely of history and to compare and contrast between – and our entire policy team welcomes suggestions different periods. A-Level, we felt, required (and from Fellows and Members of areas that have been will get) the least reform – particularly if provision neglected or are likely to be the coming issues. But on at GCSE was more varied. We do regret the decision these established areas of concern… so far, so good. to make A-Level a linear two-year course, which will reduce students’ subject choice (probably reverting them to the traditional three subjects only, whereas the AS in Year 11 encouraged them to experiment with 4 or 5), though we are happy that at both GCSE and A-Level the examining process promises to be more regular and rigorous, with fewer retakes. Overall, we felt that our interventions were targeted, well-informed, and helped to build The Role of Record Societies 3 Professor Stephen Taylor Honorary Academic Editor (BBIH) Record societies are a distinguished part of the Brit- The number of record society volumes that are ed- ish historical tradition. The origins of some of the ited to the highest standard by people who do not most august, such as the Chetham Society discussed occupy university posts is eloquent testimony to the below and Camden Society (absorbed into the RHS in breadth and health of the historical profession in 1897), pre-date the emergence of history as an aca- Britain and Ireland. At the same time the reliance demic discipline. The membership of these societies of the societies on a subscription model for publi- was dominated by clergymen, lawyers, gentry and cation is a reminder that, long before current de- other professionals, brought together by a commit- bates about open access, historians were commit- ment to make available significant historical texts. ted to making available key texts to all who were interested at as reasonable a price as possible. At the beginning of the twenty-first century re- cord societies, whether long-established or more Professor Stephen Taylor recent creations like the Berkshire Record Soci- Honorary Academic Editor (BBIH) ety and the Church of England Record Society, continue to owe their existence to the support and enthusiasm of those outside the academy, both as subscribers and as editors of volumes. Forthcoming Events Friday 22 November 2013 at 5.30 p.m. Presidential Address Professor Peter Mandler ‘Educating the Nation. I: Schools’ Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Friday 7 February 2014 at 5.30 p.m. Professor Katy Cubitt ‘Apocalyptic Thinking in England around the year 1000’ Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL 30 April 2014 Symposium ‘The Age of Anniversaries: the Cult of Commemoration 1905-1920’ Venue: University of East Anglia Friday 9 May 2014 at 5.30 p.m.
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