Global History – RHS Symposium

by | 30 Jul 2018 | Guest Posts

As part of our 150th anniversary programme, we recently hosted a symposium on ‘The Future of History: Going Global in the University’ with the Oxford Centre for Global History at the Ashmolean Museum and Bodleian Libraries. Dr Priya Atwal, a Knowledge...

National Archives Research Priorities

by | 10 Jul 2018 | Guest Posts

We partner with many organisations to host events and promote the study of history. Each summer we sponsor a series of free lectures at The National Archives, where our colleagues do invaluable work preserving and sharing the nation’s historical records. This...

Diverse History/ Hanes Amrywiol – RHS Symposium

by | 22 May 2018 | Guest Posts, RHS Work

In April, we hosted a symposium on Diverse History/Hanes Amrywiol at the University of South Wales in Cardiff. The event highlighted the great diversity of historical research and engagement in Wales, as well as engaging Welsh colleagues in our ongoing work with...

LGBT History Month

by | 28 Feb 2018 | Guest Posts

February is LGBT History Month across the UK. As the month draws to a close, Prof. Richard Parkinson (Professor of Egyptology at Oxford) reflects on celebrating ‘a great unrecorded history’.  The end of February is an opportunity to reflect on changes in...

Controversial Public History

by | 09 Jan 2018 | Guest Posts

We recently visited Queen’s University Belfast to co-host a symposium on “Teaching & Researching Controversial History”. Ahead of our Public History Prize awards later this month, Dr Olwen Purdue (Director of the QUB Centre for Public History) reflects on the...