Precarious Professionals: Gender, identities and social change in modern Britain

by | 21 Oct 2021 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

In this post, Dr Heidi Egginton and Dr Zoë Thomas introduce their new, edited collection: Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain — the latest title in the RHS’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book...

Facing current challenges can be a vital part of our curriculum

by | 27 Sep 2021 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

At a time of already great disruption, historians at Aston University this year faced the threat of departmental closure and redundancy. Public and private support for Aston historians led to the programme’s survival, though colleagues at Aston and historians...

‘I open up my mouth and I just sing’: Studying Black health and the humanities

by | 05 Sep 2021 | General, Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

In the eleventh post for our ‘Writing Race’ series, Dr Amber Lascelles introduces the Black Health and the Humanities project at the University of Bristol. The project sits at the intersection of Black humanities and medical humanities, and brings together...

Royal Historical Society invites applications for new governance and journal roles

by | 31 Aug 2021 | General, RHS Publications, RHS Work

We invite applications from RHS Fellows for four posts central to the Society’s governance and development as a learned society.  Two are Officer roles on the Council, the Society’s governing body: Honorary Secretary and Secretary for Professional...

Ten Tips for Getting Published in Academic Journals

by | 17 Aug 2021 | General, RHS Work

On Wednesday 21 July 2021 the Royal Historical Society hosted the first in a new series of training workshops for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians: ‘Getting Published: a guide to first articles and journal publishing’. The event brought together...

Eating and Aetiology in the Overthrow of Robespierre

by | 12 Aug 2021 | General, Guest Posts

How should historians think about a single day in a momentous event such as the French Revolution? Professor Colin Jones suggests we reconsider historical approaches to human agency in the context of moments of crisis and revolution. Considering one single, pivotal...