Guidelines for Contributors

Guidelines for contributors:

History@Cardiff is the blog site for staff and students in the History department at Cardiff University.

Historians in and associated with the department, as well as PGR students are welcome to submit blog posts, which will be edited and approved by blog administrators before publication online. There is also scope for UG and PGT students to contribute, but rather than an open call these contributions should be by recommendation from a tutor/supervisor.

Aims

The History@Cardiff Blog has three main aims:

• To showcase a range of work (archival, historiographical, and community-based research) within the department
• To offer relatively frequent updates on research in the History department
• To provide colleagues and students with opportunities to share their work with online audiences

Posts should focus on one of the below areas

1. News – exciting research developments (e.g. a new discovery; funding award etc.)
2. Current projects – what are you working on now?
3. New scholarship – an intro to your new book, edited collection or article
4. Contemporary resonances
5. Community or heritage work
6. Events in the department, university, online in which you are involved in an organisational role or at which you are giving a keynote
7. Research / events which involve our students

Submission

Submissions should be by email to the blog administrator/s. Please email your submission to Prof. Keir Waddington (waddingtonk@cardiff.ac.uk) for consideration.

Length and format 

Blog posts can take the form of posts of c.1000 words aimed at publicising new work to short news or events items. If you are submitting much more than 1000 words, please explain why in your email note.

One or more images should accompany blog posts to maximise engagement. Please submit to the current blog administrator in a standard word file with a title and image/s.

Please do try to extend the reach of blog posts by sharing them via other forms of social media.