Objects of Sovereignty: Thinking through Restitution

by | 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 | 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 | 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...

Marking 5 years and 50,000 downloads of ‘New Historical Perspectives’, 2016-21

by | 20 Dec 2021 | General, RHS Publications

In this final post of 2021 we mark five years since the creation of New Historical Perspectives, the Society’s Open Access book series for early career historians. The NHP Series and its distinctive publishing model was created in 2016 under its first...

New Associate Fellowship and Postgraduate categories for RHS membership

by | 06 Dec 2021 | General, RHS Work

From late November 2021, changes to the Society’s membership structure see the introduction of new Associate Fellowship and Postgraduate Membership categories. From now, there will be four ways to be part of the Royal Historical Society: as a...

The Politics of Women’s Suffrage. Local, National and International Dimensions

by | 15 Nov 2021 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

In this post, Dr Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Dr Lyndsey Jenkins introduce their new edited collection, The Politics of Women’s Suffrage. Local, National and International Dimensions: the tenth title in the RHS’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book series, published by...