Student numbers for History A-Levels and Scottish Highers, 2023

by royalhistsoc | 22 Aug 2023 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

    The 2023 A-Level results, for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, were released on 17 August 2023. They follow the 2023 results for Scottish Highers, published on 8 August. Both sets of data allow for observations on the uptake and relative...

The Impulse of the Present

by royalhistsoc | 26 Jul 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

  ‘… every history was, is, and will be a history of the present’  – Reinhart Koselleck In this third post of the ‘History and Human Flourishing’ series, David Armitage considers longstanding debates, and new writing, on the value of...

Flourishing with Herodotus

by royalhistsoc | 13 Jul 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

  In this second post of the ‘History and Human Flourishing’ series, Suzanne Marchand explores the contemporary value and relevance of Herodotus in historical teaching and methodology. Though often overlooked in favour of a ‘scientific’ approach...

History and Human Flourishing

by royalhistsoc | 28 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

    ‘What about history? What is its place, and what is its value, for life? And how might history and historians enhance human flourishing, if at all?’   In this post – the first of three considering ‘History and Human...

On Writing a Historiography of Western Sport in Colonial India

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions, Writing Race Two

  In ‘The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India’, Subhadipa Dutta offers a historiographical review of the history of Western sport in colonial India. Here Subhadipa explains how she came to her subject as a PhD researcher, and how...

Jehan Creton’s ‘Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre’

by royalhistsoc | 07 Jun 2023 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

  The latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is published in June: La Prinse et Mort du Roy Richart d’Angleterre, and Other Works by Jehan Creton, translated and edited by Lorna A. Finlay. In this post Lorna introduces the texts...