In February 2019, Harriet was honoured and delighted to be elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Fellowships are awarded to those who have made “an original contribution to historical scholarship”, normally through the authorship of a monograph, a body of scholarly work similar in scale and impact to a monograph, or the organisation of exhibitions, conferences, the editing of journals and other works of diffusion and dissemination grounded in historical scholarship.

On 1st February 2019 Harriet Atkinson launched her new AHRC-funded project: ‘The Materialisation of Persuasion’.  Over 48 months Harriet will work alongside a steering group chaired by Professor Jeremy Aynsley (Professor of Design History and Director of Centre for Design History, University of Brighton), Dr Sue Breakell (Archives Leader, University of Brighton Design Archives), Dr Frank Gray (Director of Screen Archives South East), Dr Annebella Pollen (Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design and former AHRC Leadership Fellow), Carla Mitchell (Development Director, Four Corners London) and Dr Rafal Niemowjewski (Director, Biennial Foundation).