Working with History outside HE: a Guide to Professions beyond Academia

by royalhistsoc | 24 Jul 2022 | General, Teaching Portal: Careers

    About this event ‘Working with History outside Higher Education: a Guide to Professions beyond Academia’ is is part in the Royal Historical Society’s series of online training events designed for early career historians. This session was held online in...

Royal Historical Society Prizes & Awards, 2022

by royalhistsoc | 22 Jul 2022 | General, RHS Prizes 2022

Welcome to the Royal Historical Society’s Awards, 2022 ​ In this post you’ll find details of all of the Winners and Runners-up for the Society’s 2022 Awards for research, publishing and teaching. There are seven prizes awarded by the Society and a further...

What is History For? 4: Afterlives and Memory

by royalhistsoc | 19 Jul 2022 | General, Guest Posts, What is History For?

  In this final post of our What is History For? series, Dr Thomas Brodie considers historical afterlives, with reference to a post-war group of Jewish scholars – ‘Oneg Shabbat’ – and their archival work to memorialise the experiences of...

George W. Prothero: life and legacy, 1922-2022

by royalhistsoc | 10 Jul 2022 | General, Library and Archive

  10 July 2022 marks the centenary of the death of George W. Prothero, historian, editor and President of the Society between 1901 and 1905. A prominent member of the RHS in its formative years—and especially the early twentieth century move to...

What is History For? 3: Revolutions and Crises

by royalhistsoc | 05 Jul 2022 | Guest Posts, What is History For?

  In this third post of the ‘What is History for?’ series, Dr Lucie Ryzova explores how the Covid pandemic has shaped our understanding of crisis, how it relates to crises of the past, and how these events mark significant transitory moments in...