by royalhistsoc | 07 Sep 2020 | Guest Posts
Digitisation projects, as well as the rise in the use of social media by libraries, heritage organisations and authors are widening access to visual historical materials. But what are the risks of making images of vulnerable people, including medical patients...
by royalhistsoc | 02 Sep 2020 | General, Guest Posts
Research is at the core of a historian’s day-to-day life. From undergraduates and postgraduates completing final-year dissertations to practised scholars editing their book manuscripts, the current climate has certainly caused difficulties. How can we conduct research...
by royalhistsoc | 27 Jul 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Work
In the academic year 2017-18, Brooks Marmon received the Society’s Martin Lynn Scholarship to support his doctoral research on the impact of African decolonisation on the politics of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) in the 1950s and 60s. Here, Brook reflects on...
by royalhistsoc | 09 Jul 2020 | Guest Posts
On 28 February the University of York hosted a one-day conference to explore marginalised histories and the intersectionality between them, with a particular focus on LGBT+ history, women’s history, BME history, and history of disability. The event was aimed...
by royalhistsoc | 16 Jun 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications
In this post, published simultaneously with the IHR, Christopher Phillips, whose book Civilian Specialists at War has just been published in our New Historical Perspectives open access book series, draws comparisons between specialist involvement in the current...
by royalhistsoc | 04 May 2020 | Guest Posts, Online Events
Early in March, it became clear to the organisers of the Science in the City 1500-1800 conference that their event could not go ahead as planned in early April. So they took it online. In this post, Dr Rebekah Higgitt shares her experience of rapidly re-thinking a...