The Emperor, His Castle and Modern Japan.

by | 30 Apr 2019 | Guest Posts

On May 1, 2019, Prince Naruhito (b. 1960) becomes the emperor of Japan following the abdication of his father, emperor Akihito (b. 1933), after a thirty-year reign. The enthronement ceremonies will take place in the Imperial Palace, a vast former castle complex that...

Putting History in its Place at The University of Chester

by | 16 Apr 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Since 2014 the Department of History & Archaeology at the University of Chester has been rediscovering its specialism in the history of place, space, and landscape. Hosting the Royal Historical Society Symposium in 2017 played an important part in that process....

Condemned to Become: the Future of the Past in Berlin

by | 08 Mar 2019 | Guest Posts

Marcus Colla is a final year PhD student at the University of Cambridge. His research looks at the legacy of the Prussian state in communist East Germany. Marcus was awarded the Alexander Prize for 2018 for his article ‘Prussian Palimpsests: Architecture and Urban...

Mobile Emotions

by | 27 Feb 2019 | Guest Posts

Dr Katie Barclay won the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 David Berry Prize for her essay on love and friendship amongst lower order men in eighteenth-century Scotland. Here she reflects on the larger project that the essay emerged from and its insights for...

Global History for Schools

by | 09 Oct 2018 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

October is Black History Month, and following on from our Global History Symposium this summer, Prof. Miles Larmer introduces the Oxford History Faculty’s new range of resources for schools, designed to help them offer a more diverse curriculum. How do we create...

450 Years since The Dutch Revolt

by | 05 Sep 2018 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications

The 450th anniversary of the start of the Dutch Revolt – the Eighty Years War as it is known in Dutch – is being commemorated in 2018 by a series of events, including an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. In this blog, Prof. Judith Pollmann reflects on Prof. Geoffrey...