Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society

by royalhistsoc | 12 May 2025 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

  In April 2025, the Society’s President Lucy Noakes published the following article in History Workshop. The article is part of an occasional HW series exploring the scale, form and implications of cuts to history departments and courses in UK higher...

Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England

by royalhistsoc | 10 Apr 2025 | Guest Posts, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    In this post Hannah Jeans introduces her new book—Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England—which is published in the Society’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series with University of London Press. Hannah’s book...

Finding Women’s History in Schools – challenges for the curriculum review

by royalhistsoc | 30 Mar 2025 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    Women’s and gender history are well-established and vibrant fields of research. In schools, by contrast, the presence of women is far more limited, especially for those teaching and studying the pre-modern period. In this post, Natasha Hodgson...

A Saga and Other Stories: the Australian Historical Association

by royalhistsoc | 24 Feb 2025 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

    What are the strengths of and threats to historical research in Australia today? In this post we hear from Michelle Arrow and Kate Fullagar, President and Vice-President respectively of the Australian Historical Association, about the experience of being...

Histories of Adulthood in Britain and the United States

by royalhistsoc | 28 Nov 2024 | General, Guest Posts, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    Adulthood has a history. In this post, Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall introduce their new edited collection Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z which explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain...

Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia

by royalhistsoc | 13 Sep 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  Present and Precedent in the Church Councils of Late Antique Iberia University of Kent, 12-13 July 2024 RHS Workshop Grant Recipient for 2024 Graham Barrett and Jamie Wood   In this post, Graham Barrett and Jamie Wood outline their recent workshop on the...