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...

Waiting to die? Old age in the late Imperial Russian village

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2023 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

  What was daily life like for old people in Russian villages at the turn of the twentieth century? In this post, Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham) considers the lives of non-able elderly people in late Imperial Russia; drawing on accounts of real lives...

Gendering Violence in the Past

by royalhistsoc | 07 Aug 2023 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

  In her new article, now published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Dr Victoria Leonard analyses the letters of St Augustine of Hippo, and demonstrates how their ‘silences’ convey the erasure of gendered violence and queer sexuality...

The Impulse of the Present

by royalhistsoc | 26 Jul 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

  ‘… every history was, is, and will be a history of the present’  – Reinhart Koselleck In this third post of the ‘History and Human Flourishing’ series, David Armitage considers longstanding debates, and new writing, on the value of...

Flourishing with Herodotus

by royalhistsoc | 13 Jul 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

  In this second post of the ‘History and Human Flourishing’ series, Suzanne Marchand explores the contemporary value and relevance of Herodotus in historical teaching and methodology. Though often overlooked in favour of a ‘scientific’ approach...