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In this post, Jeremy Goh — a PhD student from the University of Warwick — comments on his recent experience of archival work in China. As Jeremy suggests, access to archives is highly variable, determined, in part, by available technologies but also — and increasingly — in certain nation-states by the nationality of those who seek archival access. This post follows a recent arti...

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In this post we hear from historians involved in the creation of two new resources, launched in late 2025, to support the teaching of slavery in schools. In the opening section, Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn introduce their new co-authored book, 'Teaching Slavery. New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past', which brings together the latest academic research o...

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In this post, Frederick Hyde introduces his new article, 'Lord Palmerston and Tiverton: Politics, Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain', published this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. The article considers the relationship of the Whig statesman, Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, with the Devonshire borough of Tiverton, which he represente...

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On 10 December 2025, Research England announced the ‘unpausing’ of REF2029 and, with it, completion of a three-month review of the terms and principles of the next assessment exercise. The messaging that accompanied December’s announcement was clear: a more pragmatic, less burdensome REF template is ‘back on track’, with attention soon to move to the work of criteria setting by ...

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In this post, Andy Pearce - Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL - considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scho...

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