Working with History outside HE: a Guide to Professions beyond Academia

by royalhistsoc | 24 Jul 2022 | General, Teaching Portal: Careers

    About this event ‘Working with History outside Higher Education: a Guide to Professions beyond Academia’ is is part in the Royal Historical Society’s series of online training events designed for early career historians. This session was held online in...

Royal Historical Society Prizes & Awards, 2022

by royalhistsoc | 22 Jul 2022 | General, RHS Prizes 2022

Welcome to the Royal Historical Society’s Awards, 2022 ​ In this post you’ll find details of all of the Winners and Runners-up for the Society’s 2022 Awards for research, publishing and teaching. There are seven prizes awarded by the Society and a further...

What is History For? 4: Afterlives and Memory

by royalhistsoc | 19 Jul 2022 | General, Guest Posts, What is History For?

  In this final post of our What is History For? series, Dr Thomas Brodie considers historical afterlives, with reference to a post-war group of Jewish scholars – ‘Oneg Shabbat’ – and their archival work to memorialise the experiences of...

George W. Prothero: life and legacy, 1922-2022

by royalhistsoc | 10 Jul 2022 | General, Library and Archive

  10 July 2022 marks the centenary of the death of George W. Prothero, historian, editor and President of the Society between 1901 and 1905. A prominent member of the RHS in its formative years—and especially the early twentieth century move to...

What is History For? 2: activism and historical imagination

by royalhistsoc | 27 Jun 2022 | General, What is History For?, Writing Race Two

    In this second post in the ‘What is History For?’ series, Tionne Parris considers the examples set by mid-20th-century Black radical women in their struggle for change. How might historical study of their engagement with, and framing of,...

Rethinking Anglo-Papal Relations: Royal Reactions to the Receipt of Papal Letters

by royalhistsoc | 20 Jun 2022 | General

  Each year, the Society awards four Fellowships to students enabling them to complete a History PhD. The RHS Centenary and Marshall Fellows for 2022/23 will shortly be appointed. Here Dan Armstrong, one of current Centenary Fellows, reflects on his research....