Sir Tony Wrigley (1931-2022), Remembered by Simon Szreter

by royalhistsoc | 22 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  In this post, Professor Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) considers the career and work of the historian Sir Tony Wrigley FBA who sadly died in February 2022. One of Britain’s most important and influential social and economic historians, Tony...

History for Ukraine: 48+ historians, 24 hours

by royalhistsoc | 21 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  History for Ukraine takes place on Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th March. Over 24 hours — starting at 12 noon on Saturday 26th — more than 48 historians and genealogists from the UK, Europe, Australasia and North America will each speak for...

Justifying the arts in early modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 16 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  What value did people place on the arts in post-Reformation Britain? And what was the role of the clergy in sponsoring musical performance in particular? In this post, Dr Hannah Yip explores the justification and championing of early modern artistic endeavour...

Objects of Sovereignty: Thinking through Restitution

by royalhistsoc | 21 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

There are currently many thousands of artefacts held in UK museums and other public collections. Devolving Restitution is a series of six workshops to explore the histories of African artefacts in local museums and heritage institutions, and to discuss their...

Charting Time and Visualising Race in Europe’s Enlightenment

by royalhistsoc | 09 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

Welcome to the first in a new series of posts in the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Writing Race’ series. To begin Series Two, Professor Bruce Buchan considers the prominence of race in Enlightenment thought, with reference to the work of the Scottish...

Cataloguing the Papers of George W. Prothero – A Personal Reflection

by royalhistsoc | 02 Feb 2022 | General

In January 2022 the Society published its new catalogue of the papers of George W. Prothero (1848-1922), historian, editor and President of the RHS between 1901 and 1905. The collection, the largest in the Society’s archive, runs to more than 1000 items. The...