Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century: Courting the Public

by royalhistsoc | 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 royalhistsoc | 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:...

Provisional Semantics: Studying Colonial Indian Photographs at the Imperial War Museums

by royalhistsoc | 18 Aug 2022 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  In this latest post for the RHS ‘Writing Race’ series, Helen Mavin, Head of Photographs for the Imperial War Museums, discusses the challenges of creating national museum, gallery, and archive collections. In her role as Co-Investigator for the...

Working with History outside HE: a Guide to Professions beyond Academia

by royalhistsoc | 24 Jul 2022 | General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Main Blog, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE

    About this event ‘Working with History outside Higher Education: a Guide to Professions beyond Academia’ is is part in the Royal Historical Society’s series of online training events designed for early career historians. This session was held online in...

Royal Historical Society Prizes & Awards, 2022

by royalhistsoc | 22 Jul 2022 | General, RHS Prizes 2022

Welcome to the Royal Historical Society’s Awards, 2022 ​ In this post you’ll find details of all of the Winners and Runners-up for the Society’s 2022 Awards for research, publishing and teaching. There are seven prizes awarded by the Society and a further...

What is History For? 4: Afterlives and Memory

by royalhistsoc | 19 Jul 2022 | General, Guest Posts, What is History For?

  In this final post of our What is History For? series, Dr Thomas Brodie considers historical afterlives, with reference to a post-war group of Jewish scholars – ‘Oneg Shabbat’ – and their archival work to memorialise the experiences of...