Designed for Play: Children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space

by | 11 Jul 2024 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    To coincide with the release of his new book — Designed for Play. Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 — Jon Winder considers the complex and revealing history of the children’s playground and the wider social,...

Introducing the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP)

by | 03 Jul 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Library and Archive, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  In this post Dr Vincent Hiribarren introduces the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP), which seeks to preserve and digitise archives in regions that lack the necessary resources to do so. He discusses the opportunities this program provides for historians...

10 Tips for Getting Your Monograph Published

by | 27 Jun 2024 | General, RHS Work

    On Friday 14 June 2024 the Royal Historical Society hosted a training workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians: ‘Getting Published: A Guide to Monograph Publishing’.  The event brought together editors and academics to demystify...

A Balanced Argument? Communicating the Power of Argument to History Undergraduates

by | 14 May 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

  In March 2024, the Royal Historical Society visited historians at the Universities of York and York St John. The event included a panel discussion on the subject of communicating History to different audiences. In this post, Dr Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John)...

Generative AI, History and Historians, a reading guide

by | 01 May 2024 | AI, History and Historians, General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  There are few bigger, and more pressing, topics today than the current and future impact of Generative AI. Nowhere is this more evident than in Higher Education. The opportunities and challenges of GenAI are relevant to all those engaged in teaching and...

Hit songs in seventeenth-century England

by | 09 Apr 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  What makes for a hit song? In this post Christopher Marsh introduces the 100 Ballads project, a study of the most successful broadside ballads of seventeenth-century England. ‘100 Ballads’ was released online earlier this year. It brings together...