‘AI, History and Historians’: watch or listen to our panel discussion, held in July 2024

by royalhistsoc | 17 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, General

Video and audio recordings of the Royal Historical Society’s latest event — ‘AI, History and Historians’ — are now available. This discussion (held on 17 July 2024) brought together a panel of experts to consider the opportunities and challenges of new AI technology...

Letters Home: the Correspondence of Allen Leeper, 1908-1912

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jul 2024 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

  In this post David Hayton introduces his new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908–1912. An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford. Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin,...

Gen AI, History and Historians

by royalhistsoc | 11 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  In this post Dr Adam Budd, Secretary for Education on the RHS Council, introduces our panel discussion on ‘AI, History and Historians’, which took place on Wednesday 17 July. Adam’s post, written before the event was held, discusses the opportunities this...

Designed for Play: Children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space

by royalhistsoc | 11 Jul 2024 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    To coincide with the release of his new book — Designed for Play. Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 — Jon Winder considers the complex and revealing history of the children’s playground and the wider social,...

Introducing the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP)

by royalhistsoc | 03 Jul 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Library and Archive, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  In this post Dr Vincent Hiribarren introduces the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP), which seeks to preserve and digitise archives in regions that lack the necessary resources to do so. He discusses the opportunities this program provides for historians...