Teaching Medieval Heritage Trails as a Creative Health Intervention

by rhsadministration | 07 Sep 2025 | General, Teaching Fellowships

  In this post, Karen Smyth shares her recent experience of introducing medieval heritage trails to students on a Medical Humanities MA pathway. In moving beyond the traditional discipline of History, what are the challenges and opportunities in teaching not only...

‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England

by rhsadministration | 03 Sep 2025 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  In this post, Jonathan Willis introduces his new article, ‘“your poore distressed suppliant”: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England’, published this week in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. The article focusses on the British...

Peter J. Marshall and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation

by rhsadministration | 02 Sep 2025 | General, Guest Posts

  The Society was very sorry to learn of the death, in July, of the historian Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025). Peter’s association with the Royal Historical Society spanned more than 50 years. Elected a Fellow in 1969, Peter served as a member of the Society’s...

Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales

by rhsadministration | 28 Aug 2025 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    The building of reservoirs in England and Wales was key to urban growth across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Management of waterworks projects was closely tied to the social and economic fortunes of rural areas, as well as the...

Oral history and the built environment: using personal testimonies to understand spatial experiences and urban change

by Philip Carter | 21 Aug 2025 | General, Guest Posts

  In this post, Eve Pennington describes the use and value of oral history in her study of the Lancashire new town of Skelmersdale. As Eve argues, oral history offers creative approaches to urban history, helping us better appreciate the motivations, expectations...

Dane saga: Imagining a viking Past in the Late Medieval Low Countries

by | 12 Aug 2025 | General, Guest Posts

    Preserved in the Dutch town of Breda, an unassuming manuscript offers exceptional insights into the way that vikings were (re)conceived during the later medieval period – their memory built on a historical bedrock that never was. In this post, Christian...