Data Protection and Historical Research: The Basics

by Katherine Foxhall | 12 Apr 2021 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

Recent data protection laws, implemented across Europe in 2018, have implications for academic researchers. The Royal Historical Society recently published a set of guidelines to help researchers navigate the legal requirements around data protection. Here, Dr...

Ethics, White Scholars and the History of Race in Modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 29 Mar 2021 | Writing Race

How can researchers work sensitively with recent oral histories, particularly when the interviews they are using are not their own? In this post for our new Writing Race blog series, Jessica White reflects on some of the ethical questions she has encountered as a...

In Which They Also Served: Tracing British Sailors of Colour in the Second World War Royal Navy

by royalhistsoc | 08 Mar 2021 | Writing Race

Much is still unknown about the experiences of Britons of colour in the wartime British armed services, or of those who wanted to enlist but were unable to put on uniform because of racial discrimination. This is particularly true of the Royal Navy.  In the first post...

From Conference to Collaboration – Publishing an Edited Collection

by royalhistsoc | 02 Mar 2021 | Guest Posts

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...

RHS Transactions Journal – A New Approach to Submissions

by royalhistsoc | 15 Feb 2021 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

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...