Historians, wildlife, and habitats

by | 19 Nov 2019 | Guest Posts

Why do we study the past? One reason is to understand the present, and how the things we think of as ‘normal’ developed out of very different pasts. At a time of mounting concern about the state of the environment, Tom Williamson argues that understanding the...

Co-production, Crowd-sourcing & the History of Railway Casualties

by | 12 Nov 2019 | Guest Posts

The Railway Work, Life & Death project has been  using crowd-sourcing and working with volunteers to co-produce research questions and topics. In this post for the RHS, the project team of Karen Baker, Mike Esbester and Helen Ford share a great example of how...

Historians and Sustainability

by | 31 Oct 2019 | Guest Posts

How can historians respond to the demands of a career that can be both environmentally – and emotionally – unsustainable? In this post for the RHS, Toby Green and Simon Sleight introduce their working paper on “Historians and Sustainability”....

Bloody Bunce: A Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Sierra Leone

by | 29 Oct 2019 | Guest Posts

Four hundred years ago, in 1619, the first African slaves landed in the United States. The 1619 Project has made an important contribution to our understanding of the legacy of slavery in the United States, but there has been less conversation about the places where...

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

by | 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 | 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...