A Balanced Argument? Communicating the Power of Argument to History Undergraduates

by royalhistsoc | 14 May 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  In March 2024, the Royal Historical Society visited historians at the Universities of York and York St John. The event included a panel discussion on the subject of communicating History to different audiences. In this post, Dr Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John)...

Hit songs in seventeenth-century England

by royalhistsoc | 09 Apr 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  What makes for a hit song? In this post Christopher Marsh introduces the 100 Ballads project, a study of the most successful broadside ballads of seventeenth-century England. ‘100 Ballads’ was released online earlier this year. It brings together...

Who reads history blogs?

by royalhistsoc | 07 Feb 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  Digital communications are central to how we communicate, debate, teach and assess understanding of the past. In this post, David Geiringer goes back to one of the earliest, and most resilient, of these formats — the blog — to consider its...

Teaching Soviet History from the Borderlands: A Case Study of Belarus and Ukraine

by royalhistsoc | 30 Jan 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  How can we ‘decolonise the curriculum’ when it comes to the history of the Soviet Union? How do we decentralise our historical approach to former-Soviet states? In this post Natalya Chernyshova discusses the importance of these questions for modern...

History and memory in the 21st century

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jan 2024 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Work

  In this post we hear from Lucy Noakes, Rab Butler Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and—from January 2024—President-Elect of the Royal Historical Society.   A specialist in the history of modern Britain, Lucy researches the experience and...

Beyond the ‘good’/’bad’ migrant dichotomy: ways forward for early modern and contemporary history

by royalhistsoc | 19 Nov 2023 | General, Guest Posts

  RHS Workshop Grants support meetings of historians to undertake a wide range of projects, from research, to debate, programme planning and networking. The first round of RHS Workshops took place in 2023. They include a day event recently hosted by the Early...