RHS Whitfield Book Prize – the 2022 Shortlist

by | 30 May 2022 | General, RHS Prizes 2022

    The 2022 shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of six excellent history monographs published in 2021.   Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan (University of California Press) Histories of...

Supporting History teaching and research in UK universities: a toolkit

by rhsadministration | 24 May 2022 | General, RHS Work

SUPPORTING HISTORY TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN UK UNIVERSITIES: A TOOLKIT   A number of UK History departments have recently been faced with, or are experiencing, cuts to programmes and staff, or mergers with other disciplines.  As part of its advocacy role, the...

Becoming a Historian: an Informal Guide

by | 18 May 2022 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    How do we undertake a major historical research project for the first time? What should we do to ensure that a project’s completed? How do we best engage in debate about our own, and others’, work? How can we apply historical understanding to...

REF 2021: Reflections from the History sub-panel chairs

by | 12 May 2022 | General, Guest Posts

    The Research Excellence Framework (REF), undertaken by the UK’s four HE funding bodies, provides a review and assessment of research in higher education. The results of the latest assessment (REF2021) were published on 12 May 2022. Here, Professors...

Parades and Power in Early Modern Japan

by | 11 May 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

    In her new article for Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Rebekah Clements explores the complexities of political sovereignty in early modern Japan through the practice of ‘alternate attendance’. The requirement for...

Developing the Royal Historical Society archive: phase 2 begins

by | 04 May 2022 | General

  The Society is very pleased to have recently received generous support, from the Marc Fitch Fund, for the second phase of its archive development programme. This new funding award follows the completion in January 2022 of ‘phase one’ of the project...