A Collector Collected: the Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823

by rhsadministration | 18 Nov 2025 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

    In this post Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung introduce their new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, published in November 2025. William Upcott (1779–1845)...

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society

by rhsadministration | 06 Nov 2025 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    In this post, Rachael Harkes introduces her new book — ‘Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow’ — which is published in the Society’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series with University of London...

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940

by rhsadministration | 30 Oct 2025 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    In this post, Gareth Roddy introduces his new book — Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940 — which is published in the Society’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series with University of London...

‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England

by rhsadministration | 03 Sep 2025 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  In this post, Jonathan Willis introduces his new article, ‘“your poore distressed suppliant”: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England’, published this week in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. The article focusses on the British...

Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales

by rhsadministration | 28 Aug 2025 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

    The building of reservoirs in England and Wales was key to urban growth across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Management of waterworks projects was closely tied to the social and economic fortunes of rural areas, as well as the...

The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)

by | 05 Aug 2025 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

    In this post Helen Newsome-Chandler introduces her new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), published in August 2025. This volume presents the surviving holograph...