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...
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, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Online Resources
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, 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...
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...