Royal Historical Society Early Career Article Prize, 2025 – Shortlisted Titles

by royalhistsoc | 28 May 2025 | General

    The Royal Historical Society’s Early Career Article Prize 2025 recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of journal articles published in 2024. This year’s shortlist of eight articles is now available. It follows an open call for...

Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society

by royalhistsoc | 12 May 2025 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

  In April 2025, the Society’s President Lucy Noakes published the following article in History Workshop. The article is part of an occasional HW series exploring the scale, form and implications of cuts to history departments and courses in UK higher...

Finding Women’s History in Schools – challenges for the curriculum review

by royalhistsoc | 30 Mar 2025 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    Women’s and gender history are well-established and vibrant fields of research. In schools, by contrast, the presence of women is far more limited, especially for those teaching and studying the pre-modern period. In this post, Natasha Hodgson...

Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman

by royalhistsoc | 19 Mar 2025 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications, Writing Race Two

    In this post, Rachel E. Johnson introduces her new book—Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle. The Shadow of a Young Woman—which is published in the Society’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series with...

Becoming a Member of the History Subject Panel for REF2029. An Introduction and Guide

by royalhistsoc | 17 Mar 2025 | Advocacy and Policy, General, REF2029

    The work of disciplinary sub-panels (including that for History) is fundamental to the Research Excellence Framework. Subject panels form the heart of REF, responsible for assessing and grading scholarly outputs, impact and research cultures across the...

Rediscovering Hitavadi: A Forgotten Chapter in Telugu Print Culture

by royalhistsoc | 12 Mar 2025 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions, Writing Race Two

    In this post Chakali Chandra Sekhar introduces his new article,  ‘Rediscovering Hitavadi: A Forgotten Pioneer of Telugu Vernacular Print and Missionary Journalism’, recently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Hitavadi was the...