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...

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...