Towards a creative antifascist pedagogy: zine-making in the classroom

by | 01 Aug 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  In this post, Amy King discusses her innovative teaching methods on far-right political groups, past and present. Amy’s undergraduate modules explore the themes of this topic, the ways in which far-right ideologies are distributed, and limitations in use...

‘AI, History and Historians’: watch or listen to our panel discussion, held in July 2024

by | 17 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, General

Video and audio recordings of the Royal Historical Society’s latest event — ‘AI, History and Historians’ — are now available. This discussion (held on 17 July 2024) brought together a panel of experts to consider the opportunities and challenges of new AI technology...

Letters Home: the Correspondence of Allen Leeper, 1908-1912

by | 16 Jul 2024 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

  In this post David Hayton introduces his new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908–1912. An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford. Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin,...

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...