Meet the RHS Council – Professor Simon MacLean
In the third in a short series of posts, we invite some of the Society’s new councillors and office holders to introduce themselves. Professor Simon McLean is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews.
Data Protection and Historical Research: The Basics
Recent data protection laws have implications for academic researchers. Here, Dr Katherine Foxhall explains how the new rules support research, and some of the key elements that historians should be aware of.
Ethics, White Scholars and the History of Race in Modern Britain
How can researchers work sensitively with recent oral histories? In this post for our new ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Jessica White reflects on the ethical questions she has encountered as a white postgraduate working on the history of race in modern Britain.
In Which They Also Served: Tracing British Sailors of Colour in the Second World War Royal Navy
Much is still unknown about the experiences of Britons of colour in the wartime British armed services. This is particularly true of the Royal Navy. In the first post in our new ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Dr Frances Houghton introduces her research and attempts to find out more.
From Conference to Collaboration – Publishing an Edited Collection
What's involved in turning a set of conference papers into an edited collection? Dr Patrick Low, Helen Rutherford & Dr Clare Sandford Couch, the co-editors of Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual take us through...
RHS Transactions Journal – A New Approach to Submissions
For more than a century, the papers read at the Royal Historical Society’s London meetings have been published in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. RHS Literary Director, Professor Andrew Spicer, introduces a new approach and new submission process to...
Meet the RHS President – Professor Emma Griffin
On 27 November 2020, Professor Emma Griffin formally began her term as the new President of the Royal Historical Society. Here, Emma reflects on taking up this position in a period of great uncertainty for the historical profession. It was just over thirteen months...
Meet the RHS Council – Rebekah Lee
For a new blog series to start 2021, we asked some of the new RHS councillors and office holders to introduce themselves... Dr Rebekah Lee is a Senior Lecturer at the History Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests concern the social and...
Meet the RHS Council – Emily Robinson
For a short series of blog posts to start 2021, we asked some of the new RHS councillors and office holders to introduce themselves. Dr Emily Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex and a historian of modern Britain. She was elected to the...
Smiling in the Age of Coronavirus
Colin Jones, author of The Smile Revolution in eighteenth-century Paris (Oxford University Press, 2014) and former President of the Royal Historical Society considers the long history of smiling, and asks what the future might hold for this most expressive of gestures...
Making sense of your research
In this post, Dr Andrew Foster offers guidance to PhD research students about how to make sense of their research during the PhD process. His guidance offers to encourage students through the highs and lows of research, and poses a series of questions to support...
Ethics in the Classroom Setting
History is about opinion, judgement and (often) getting beyond monolithic assumptions about ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. At the same time, the classroom should be a safe and ethical place for the exchange of views and a space that is marked by respect, sensitivity and...