Why does the commemoration of slavery and its victims remain so difficult in France?

by | 21 Jun 2021 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

How do modern European nations remember the abolition of slavery, and how does this affect campaigns for racial justice? In the latest post from the RHS ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Olivia Durand introduces her research on France’s complicated relationship with...

RHS Gladstone Prize, 2021 – shortlisted author videos

by | 03 Jun 2021 | General

The RHS recently announced the shortlists for its 2021 Gladstone and Whitfield Book Prizes. Here, we introduce you to the first set of authors shortlisted for the Gladstone Prize, via a series of short videos. The RHS Gladstone Prize is awarded annually for a first...

RHS Whitfield Prize, 2021 — shortlisted author videos

by | 01 Jun 2021 | General

We recently announced the shortlists for the 2021 RHS Whitfield and Gladstone Book Prizes. Here we introduce you to the shortlisted authors via a series of short videos, beginning with the six early career historians shortlisted for his year’s Whitfield Prize...

The Future of (Teaching) the Past

by | 28 May 2021 | General, Guest Posts

What happens when a university lab-based Digital History module goes online due to lockdown? You might think the imposed digital switch would be straightforward for ‘born digital’ digital history students. But as Dr Jessica van Horssen of Leeds Beckett...

Teaching the Tudors on a two-way street

by | 25 May 2021 | General

Dr John Cooper was runner-up in the 2020 RHS Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here, he reflects on the importance of open dialogue in teaching: between undergraduate year groups, who’ve much to teach one another, and...

RHS Gladstone Book Prize – the 2021 Shortlist

by | 19 May 2021 | General

The Shortlist for the 2021 RHS Gladstone Prize is announced   This year, as in past competitions, the Gladstone Prize has attracted an outstanding range of submissions on the Atlantic World, British imperial, and trans-national contexts. The field was so strong...