Cataloguing the RHS Archive 2: The Quest for the 1583 High Commission

by Eilish Gregory | 25 Sep 2019 | Guest Posts, Library and Archive, RHS Work

The Royal Historical Society is currently revamping its archive and updating its accompanying catalogue, a project that includes the digitisation of the academic and personal papers of George Walter Prothero, the first RHS President. In their second blog post on the...

Teaching History in a Digital Age

by swebbdh | 12 Sep 2019 | General, Guest Posts

Digital transformations in society and culture have fundamentally changed the historian’s relationship with the past.  So how do we incorporate this into our teaching? In this post for Historical Transactions, Dr Sharon Webb and Dr James Baker, winners of the...

Beyond Peterloo: The Founding of the Manchester Guardian

by | 16 Aug 2019 | Guest Posts

It is well-known that the events of the Peterloo Massacre, which occurred two hundred years ago today, on 16 August 1819, inspired the founding of the Manchester Guardian. These roots are today still recognised by the Guardian (which the Manchester Guardian would...

Beyond This Day – 8 August 1940: Popular History and the Power Sisters

by lc449 | 08 Aug 2019 | Guest Posts

The historian Eileen Power died on 8 August 1940. In this blog post, Dr Laura Carter examines the historical legacy of Rhoda Power, Eileen’s younger sister (pictured above). In the decades following Eileen’s death, Rhoda continued to shape popular social...

A Cultural History of Irish Identity on Display

by shahmimaakhtar | 31 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Shahmima Akhtar joined the Royal Historical Society in July 2019 as Past and Present Fellow: Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History. Over the next two years Shahmima will work with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute for Historical Research to advance...

Insta-Research: Social Media and the Historian

by kstrasdin | 23 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts

As a scholar working in a rural UK university, far from peers in her field of study, Kate Strasdin decided to embrace Instagram and Twitter as a means of professional engagement, and to explore the potential for virtual communication when travel to conferences and...