Disability History Month 2022: reflections on recent research

by | 05 Dec 2022 | General

  To mark this year’s Disability History Month (16 November-16 December), Beckie Rutherford considers three recent monographs that have significantly contributed to the field of disability history: charting experience in the Soviet Union, the coal industry...

150 years of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1872-2022)

by | 17 Nov 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, our academic journal. A century and a half on, the 2022 volume of Transactions — published this month — also sees significant changes to the content,...

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Quantifying Caribbean Slavery’s Historic Connections and Modern Legacies in Scotland

by | 11 Nov 2022 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

  In his new book, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838, Stephen Mullen provides the first comprehensive study of Scotland’s West India merchant elites and the economic legacy of Caribbean slavery on Scottish, and wider...

The Partition of British India: 75 Years On

by | 05 Nov 2022 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  On 1 November, the Society hosted its annual Public History Lecture, in association with Gresham College. We were delighted to welcome the BBC journalist and broadcaster, Kavita Puri, to give this year’s lecture on the subject of ‘The Partition of...

Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century: Courting the Public

by | 13 Sep 2022 | General, Guest Posts, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

  To coincide with publication of his new monograph — The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668-1813. Courting the Public — Dr Leo Shipp charts the rise and role of the laureateship from John Dryden to the appointment of Robert Southey....

Providing for the Poor: micro-histories of poverty

by | 06 Sep 2022 | General, Guest Posts, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    Dr Louise Falcini and Dr Peter Collinge introduce their new essay collection ‘Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750-1834’, the research for which is supported by the AHRC-funded project ‘Small Bills and Petty Finance:...