Historical Research in the Digital Age – Part 1: ‘We Are All Digital Now’

by royalhistsoc | 30 Nov 2022 | Guest Posts, Historical Research in the Digital Age, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

  With this post we begin a new six-part series — ‘Historical Research in the Digital Age’ — which explores historians’ use and understanding of the digital resources and sources that shape modern research culture. The series is...

Black at Sussex

by royalhistsoc | 26 Nov 2022 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  This latest post of our ‘Writing Race’ Series introduces ‘Black at Sussex’ a five-year project which reflects on the history of the Black experience at Sussex University since its foundation in 1961. The project, which launched this...

What did people do all day in the seventeenth century?

by royalhistsoc | 22 Nov 2022 | Camden Series, RHS Publications

    In his new scholarly edition, The Diary of George Lloyd (1642-1718), Daniel Patterson provides a detailed insight into the ‘everyday’ and ‘ordinary’ in early modern life. Daniel’s new Camden Series volume reclaims the life...

150 years of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1872-2022)

by royalhistsoc | 17 Nov 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, our academic journal. A century and a half on, the 2022 volume of Transactions — published this month — also sees significant changes to the content,...

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Quantifying Caribbean Slavery’s Historic Connections and Modern Legacies in Scotland

by royalhistsoc | 11 Nov 2022 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

  In his new book, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838, Stephen Mullen provides the first comprehensive study of Scotland’s West India merchant elites and the economic legacy of Caribbean slavery on Scottish, and wider...