Hindsight Perspectives for a Safer World Project
To enable historians to engage effectively with policy makers and shapers, H&P offers training and support to its members as well as to students, when funding allows.
Courses include policy engagement skills training and History in the Headlines, with senior journalists and communications professionals explaining how different forms of media operate and the various opportunities for engaging with journalists.
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Call for historians to write papers for Hindsight Perspectives
Moving into the project's second phase, we are looking to commission three more reports, with particular focus on the history of ports and of engineering education
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Pod 2: From sail to steam… to zero carbon. Dr Elin Jones on maritime innovation and change in the nineteenth century
Dr Elin Jones, Lecturer in Maritime History at the University of Exeter, on her research into the social contexts of maritime life in the period roughly 1750 to 1850, years of enormous technological transition. We range over how maritime work and the life of coastal communities changed with the sail-steam transition, working as a historian…
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Pod 1: What’s in the Lloyds Register Foundation archive?
The Lloyds Register Foundation's Heritage Education Centre has a rich archive covering the 260 years of Lloyd's Register history. I spoke to Dr Louise Sanger, Applied Research and Heritage Manager at HEC about what researchers on the Hindsight Perspectives project (and others) could expect to find, how the archive has changed over the years, and a…
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Project overview
History & Policy at King’s College London is delighted to be working with the Lloyds Register Foundation on the Hindsight Perspectives for a Safer World project to create a body of reports based on materials in the Foundation’s Heritage Education Centre. We are actively seeking historians interested in participating in the project, which has a…
About Us
H&P is based at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London.
We are the only project in the UK providing access to an international network of more than 500 historians with a broad range of expertise. H&P offers a range of resources for historians, policy makers and journalists.
