Tracing Digitized Lives – Convicts and Old Age

by royalhistsoc | 08 Oct 2020 | Guest Posts

Interest in crime history, amongst academics and the public, has increased with the development of digital repositories and large-scale projects such as The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, Digital Panopticon and Convict Voyages. In this post for the RHS blog,...

Seeing and defining fascism: historical lessons from mid-century Spain

by royalhistsoc | 06 Oct 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications

In this post, published jointly with the IHR, Dr Matthew Kerry (Stirling University) introduces his new book, Unite Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic, which was published by University of London Press on 30 September. Unite...

Historical photographs as sensitive sources: questions and challenges

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...

Reflections on the Martin Lynn Scholarship

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...

From Margins to Centre?: An Undergraduate Conference on Marginalised Histories

by royalhistsoc | 09 Jul 2020 | Guest Posts, LGBT+, Race, Ethnicity and Equality

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...

Expertise Unbound? The state and its use of specialists in times of crisis

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...