Historians face social and material pressure to conform to favored schools of thought

Evidence

There is social pressure, through colleagues and neighbors and friends, which makes it difficult or even painful to express opinions that go against what is currently acceptable or fashionable. And of course there is material pressure, by the manipulation of the granting or withholding of visas to visit one or another country and research permits to work in them, as well as more professional matters such as grants, fellowships, appointments and promotions. All of these are frequently used as weapons to secure preferential treatment for one or other school of historical thinking or, to be precise, historical teaching and writing. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1848

Categorization

• QUESTION: Modern analogues: what do today’s visa/grant manipulations to steer historiography look like, especially post-1989?