The Future of (Teaching) the Past

by royalhistsoc | 28 May 2021 | General, Guest Posts

What happens when a university lab-based Digital History module goes online due to lockdown? You might think the imposed digital switch would be straightforward for ‘born digital’ digital history students. But as Dr Jessica van Horssen of Leeds Beckett...

Historians on ‘Contested Heritage’

by royalhistsoc | 27 May 2021 | Guest Posts, RHS Work

In March the Royal Historical Society was one of six institutional signatories to a letter calling on government to clarify its attitude towards and involvement in areas of ‘contested heritage’. The letter highlighted ministers’ increasing attempts...

Teaching the Tudors on a two-way street

by royalhistsoc | 25 May 2021 | General

Dr John Cooper was runner-up in the 2020 RHS Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here, he reflects on the importance of open dialogue in teaching: between undergraduate year groups, who’ve much to teach one another, and...

Race, Prostitution and the British Empire

by royalhistsoc | 24 May 2021 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

In what ways did colonialism redefine and enforce concepts of sexual behaviour, and how do historians best recover the lives of those affected? In this fifth post of the RHS ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Sudeshna Chatterjee introduces her research on the governance of...

RHS Gladstone Book Prize – the 2021 Shortlist

by royalhistsoc | 19 May 2021 | General

The Shortlist for the 2021 RHS Gladstone Prize is announced   This year, as in past competitions, the Gladstone Prize has attracted an outstanding range of submissions on the Atlantic World, British imperial, and trans-national contexts. The field was so strong...