Putting the Past in its Place: Teaching Environmental History in the Age of the Anthropocene
In this post, Karen Jones, Professor of Environmental and Cultural History at the University of Kent, provides a brief methodological introduction to the field of environmental history, together with a short reflection on teaching innovation and practice. She draws...
RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Roadmap for Change II
Header Image: The sculpture "A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)" by British artist Marc Quinn stands on the plinth in Bristol where the statue of the seventeenth-century merchant and slave-trader Edward Colston had been since 1895. The statue of Colston was removed by...
Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two
Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...
From Cold-War Bunker to Art Fund Museum of the Year: Transforming Gairloch Museum
On 12 October, during BBC’s UK-wide #MuseumPassion week, Gairloch Museum was announced as a winner of the highly prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020. Recognition of the success of an eight-year £2.4M project was a huge accolade for a small, volunteer-run,...
King Oswald’s Raven: Public Engagement During the Coronavirus Pandemic
In late March, three days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first national lockdown in response to COVID-19, a funding application that Johanna Dale and her academic and creative partners had worked hard on, was automatically rejected as funding streams...
Climate in the History Curriculum
In September, Amanda Power spoke to the RHS Education Policy Committee about putting climate into the history curriculum. In this post for the RHS blog, which draws on that presentation, she considers how we might develop history curricula to integrate climate, and...
Tracing Digitized Lives – Convicts and Old Age
Interest in crime history, amongst academics and the public, has increased with the development of digital repositories and large-scale projects such as The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, Digital Panopticon and Convict Voyages. In this post for the RHS blog,...
Seeing and defining fascism: historical lessons from mid-century Spain
In this post, published jointly with the IHR, Dr Matthew Kerry (Stirling University) introduces his new book, Unite Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic, which was published by University of London Press on 30 September. Unite...
LGBT+ and Queer Histories – Getting Started
This resource is one of several to accompany the RHS LGBT+ Histories and Historians Report, published on 28 September 2020. This page offers some starting points - quick reading (and listening) suggestions and examples of online resources for those who want to begin...
LGBT+ Histories – Reading List
LGBT+ and queer histories are vast and varied. This list gives a sense of the range and diversity, across time and space, of the LGBT+ histories already available. It represents some of the readings the members of the RHS LGBT+ working group would recommend - from...
LGBT+ Archives, Networks and Heritage
This page lists some academic and professional groups and networks for LGBT+ historians, and histories, museums, archives and major collections of LGBT+ history. These range from small community projects to large national institutions. If you would like to recommend...
Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Using correct pronouns for non-binary and trans people is a simple indication of acknowledgement and respect. Gendered appearance does not reliably tell you about a person’s gender. Checking which pronouns to use, and then doing so consistently, is an easy way to...