Wierdly i've just been reading Jodi Taylor's St Mary's series which is kind of similar - a secret insitute of time-travelling historians powered by tea and chaos. I've just finished book 4 of 7 (so far). The science is largely (understandably) hand-waved but they are highly enjoyable brain-candy romps.
Surely the appropriate thing to do if trying to kick off study in the field of Chronology would be to persuade the monarch to endow a Regius Professorship?
It may have been less coherent while I was having it - this is as I remembered it, and my waking brain tends to patch up the wilder bits.
persuade the monarch to endow a Regius Professorship
These days, Regius Professorships don't carry any funding at all - not even for the substantive academic post underneath. They're purely kudos. My boss is one of the last-but-one release of new Regius Professorships, so I know quite a bit about the process. All you actually get is a bit of parchment with the seal on the bottom, and the Royal Arms, Brenda's full title, and "to all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!" at the top. I think there might even have been a fee for that.
So to be any practical use it'd need to be a much older monarch - dear old Reg got George III to do it. Which really requires a large-scale functional time machine to pull off, rather begging the question.
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Wierdly i've just been reading Jodi Taylor's St Mary's series which is kind of similar - a secret insitute of time-travelling historians powered by tea and chaos. I've just finished book 4 of 7 (so far). The science is largely (understandably) hand-waved but they are highly enjoyable brain-candy romps.
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But you've seen my prose style.
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Surely the appropriate thing to do if trying to kick off study in the field of Chronology would be to persuade the monarch to endow a Regius Professorship?
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persuade the monarch to endow a Regius Professorship
These days, Regius Professorships don't carry any funding at all - not even for the substantive academic post underneath. They're purely kudos. My boss is one of the last-but-one release of new Regius Professorships, so I know quite a bit about the process. All you actually get is a bit of parchment with the seal on the bottom, and the Royal Arms, Brenda's full title, and "to all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!" at the top. I think there might even have been a fee for that.
So to be any practical use it'd need to be a much older monarch - dear old Reg got George III to do it. Which really requires a large-scale functional time machine to pull off, rather begging the question.
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