Flourishing with Herodotus

by | 13 Jul 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

  In this second post of the ‘History and Human Flourishing’ series, Suzanne Marchand explores the contemporary value and relevance of Herodotus in historical teaching and methodology. Though often overlooked in favour of a ‘scientific’ approach...

History and Human Flourishing

by | 28 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

    ‘What about history? What is its place, and what is its value, for life? And how might history and historians enhance human flourishing, if at all?’   In this post – the first of three considering ‘History and Human...

On Writing a Historiography of Western Sport in Colonial India

by | 16 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions, Writing Race Two

  In ‘The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India’, Subhadipa Dutta offers a historiographical review of the history of Western sport in colonial India. Here Subhadipa explains how she came to her subject as a PhD researcher, and how...

Jehan Creton’s ‘Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre’

by | 07 Jun 2023 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

  The latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is published in June: La Prinse et Mort du Roy Richart d’Angleterre, and Other Works by Jehan Creton, translated and edited by Lorna A. Finlay. In this post Lorna introduces the texts...

Windrush 75: UK History-related events in June 2023

by | 07 Jun 2023 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  22 June 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in Essex. The ship brought to Britain just over 800 passengers who had left the West Indies, the great majority of whom sought to settle and begin new lives in the...

RHS ALEXANDER PRIZE – THE 2023 SHORTLIST

by | 01 Jun 2023 | General, RHS Prizes 2023

The Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize is awarded for a journal article or essay based on original historical research – written by a doctoral candidate or those recently awarded their doctorate – and published in a journal or an edited...