Arts and Humanities Research Council

The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) was founded in 1998 and became a Research Council in April 2005.Creating the AHRC: An Arts and Humanities Research Council for the United Kingdom in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

The AHRC is a non-departmental public body that provides approximately £102 million from the UK government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,350 postgraduate awards. Postgraduate funding is organised through Doctoral Training Partnerships in 10 consortia that bring together a total of 72 higher education institutions throughout the UK. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded.{{Cite web|url=https://ahrc.ukri.org/newsevents/news/ahrc-commits-to-postgraduate-research-through-new-doctoral-training-partnerships/|title=AHRC commits to postgraduate research through new Doctoral Training Partnerships - Arts and Humanities Research Council|website=ahrc.ukri.org|access-date=2019-07-02}}

The AHRC is one of seven research councils in the UK.

Professor Christopher Smith is the current Executive Chair of the AHRC.[https://ahrc.ukri.org/about/governancestructure/seniormanagementteam/professorchristophersmith/ "Professor Christopher Smith, Executive Chair"], AHRC. He succeeded Professor Andrew S. Thompson who served as Interim Chief Executive from December 2015 until August 2020.[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-interim-chief-executive-for-the-arts-and-humanities-research-council "Appointment of Interim Chief Executive for the Arts and Humanities Research Council"] (Press release), Gov.uk, 30 November 2015. His predecessor was Professor Rick Rylance who took up the post on 1 September 2009 and served until August 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/News/Pages/Reappointment-of-Chief-Executive-for-the-AHRC.aspx |title=Reappointment of Chief Executive for the AHRC - Arts & Humanities Research Council |publisher=Ahrc.ac.uk |date=2013-09-01 |access-date=2014-06-19}}

The current{{when|date=December 2020}} Council Chair is Sir Drummond Bone who succeeded Sir Alan Wilson who retired in December 2013.

The London Project{{cite web |title=Home |url=http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/ |website=The London Project |access-date=22 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828232735/http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/ |archive-date=28 August 2006}}{{cite web |title=The London Project |url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/search.php/site?q=The+London+Project&category=Arts+and+Humanities&subject=Film+Studies&sort=&page_size=1 |website=bufvc.ac.uk · British Universities Film & Video Council |access-date=22 October 2024}} (2004-2005{{cite web |last1=McKernan |first1=Luke |title=Research |url=https://lukemckernan.com/research/ |website=Luke McKernan - lukemckernan.com |access-date=22 October 2024 |date=21 September 2012}}) (Centre for British Film and Television Studies), investigating the film business in London 1894-1914, was led by Ian Christie,{{cite web |last1=Christie |first1=Ian |title=London Screen History |url=https://www.ianchristie.org/screeningthecity.html |website=www.ianchristie.org |access-date=22 October 2024}}{{cite web |title=Daily Bioscope |url=http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/view/venue/?id=99 |website=The London Project |publisher=Arts and Humanities Research Council Centre for British Film and Television Studies |access-date=22 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125014514/http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/view/venue/?id=99 |archive-date=25 November 2010}} with Simon Brown (Businesses) and Luke McKernan{{cite web |title=About |url=https://thebioscope.net/about/ |website=The Bioscope |access-date=22 October 2024 |language=en |date=4 February 2007}} (Venues).{{cite web |title=About |url=http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/about/project/ |website=The London Project |access-date=22 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070430091933/http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/about/project/ |archive-date=30 April 2007}}{{cite web |last1=McKernan |first1=Luke |title=The London Project (exhibition and audiences) |url=https://picturegoing.com/?page_id=913 |website=Picturegoing |access-date=22 October 2024 |date=19 August 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Christie |first1=Ian |title=The Girl with the Speck of Dust in Her Eye: Living London Returns |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/feature-articles/living-london/#1 |access-date=22 October 2024 |work=Senses of Cinema |date=2 February 2009}}

The Stonehenge Riverside Project was a major five-year AHRC-funded archaeological research study, announced in 2009, focusing on the development of the Stonehenge landscape in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. In particular, the project was interested in the relationship between the stones and surrounding monuments and features including; the River Avon, Durrington Walls, the Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge, burial mounds, and nearby standing stones. In August 2009 the project discovered a new stone circle, which was named Bluestonehenge by the research team, about one mile away from Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The project is run by a consortium of university teams. It was directed by Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University, with co-directors Josh Pollard (University of Southampton), Julian Thomas (Manchester University), Kate Welham (Bournemouth University) and Colin Richards (Manchester University).{{cite web |url= http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2009/1363.html |title=News releases 2009 |work=Sheffield University |year=2012 |access-date=18 February 2012}}

Researchers at the University of Reading and University of Southampton analysed historic sources such as muster rolls records in the National Archives at Kew and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (for records of English garrisons in France). The resulting Medieval Soldier online database was launched in 2009 which enables people to search for soldiers by surname, rank or year of service. The online database contains 250,000 service records of soldiers who saw active duty in the latter phases of the Hundred Years' War (1369–1453).{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/10/did-your-ancestor-fight-in-the-hundred-years-war/112858|title=Did your ancestor fight in the Hundred Years War?|last=HeritageDaily|date=2016-10-07|website=HeritageDaily - Archaeology News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-02}}{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/8160081.stm|title=Medieval battle records go online|date=2009-07-20|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2019-07-02|language=en-GB}}

Between 2013 and 2015, the AHRC co-funded a project known as the Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 project at the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, along with the Economic and Social Research Council. This work continues to be built upon, creating Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, which is free for public use.{{cite web | website=Legacies of British Slave-ownership|title=Home | publisher=University College London | url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ | access-date=12 December 2020}}

A project funded by AHRC looking at the circumstances in which belligerent parties in wars may intentionally or foreseeably damage sites of cultural property.AHRC (2017), [https://www.heritageinwar.com/about Heritage in War], accessed 10 May 2023

An AHRC research grant enabled academics from the University of Hertfordshire, University of Sheffield and the Open University to double in size the Old Bailey trial proceedings available to view on the Old Bailey Proceedings Online website and provide access to the largest single source of searchable information about ordinary British lives and behaviour ever published.{{Cite web|url=https://ahrc.ukri.org/research/case-study-archives/the-old-bailey-online/|title=The Old Bailey Online - Arts and Humanities Research Council|website=ahrc.ukri.org|access-date=2019-07-02}}

The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts, 1679 to 1772. It allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn.

The AHRC publish reviews and reports on arts and humanities subjects, as well as corporate publications. Research news and findings are communicated in website features, press releases, and multimedia content such as podcasts.{{cite web|url=http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Publications/Pages/Publications.aspx |title=Publications - Arts & Humanities Research Council |publisher=Ahrc.ac.uk |access-date=2014-06-19}}

Between 2005 and 2010, the AHRC published a magazine called Podium twice a year, which contained news and case studies based on research that they have funded.{{cite web|url=http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Publications/Publications-archive/Pages/Publications-archive.aspx/ |title=Publications archive - Arts & Humanities Research Council |publisher=Ahrc.ac.uk |access-date=2014-06-19}}

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