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...

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:...

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...

What is History For? 3: Revolutions and Crises

by royalhistsoc | 05 Jul 2022 | Guest Posts, What is History For?

  In this third post of the ‘What is History for?’ series, Dr Lucie Ryzova explores how the Covid pandemic has shaped our understanding of crisis, how it relates to crises of the past, and how these events mark significant transitory moments in...

What is History For? 2: activism and historical imagination

by royalhistsoc | 27 Jun 2022 | General, What is History For?, Writing Race Two

    In this second post in the ‘What is History For?’ series, Tionne Parris considers the examples set by mid-20th-century Black radical women in their struggle for change. How might historical study of their engagement with, and framing of,...

A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History

by royalhistsoc | 22 Jun 2022 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

    In their new article, now published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Stuart McManus and Michael T. Tworek offer a new approach to early modern global history. What they dub ‘(dis)entangled history’ is a way to combine the...