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...

History and Human Flourishing

by royalhistsoc | 28 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, History and Human Flourishing

    ‘What about history? What is its place, and what is its value, for life? And how might history and historians enhance human flourishing, if at all?’   In this post – the first of three considering ‘History and Human...

On Writing a Historiography of Western Sport in Colonial India

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions, Writing Race Two

  In ‘The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India’, Subhadipa Dutta offers a historiographical review of the history of Western sport in colonial India. Here Subhadipa explains how she came to her subject as a PhD researcher, and how...