Old Words and New Worlds

by | 10 Apr 2018 | RHS Publications

Dr Aysha Pollnitz, Assistant Professor of History at Rice University, won the Society’s 2016 Whitfield Prize for her book ‘Princely Education in early modern Britain’. Here she discusses how her research has moved on to liberal education in early...

2nd Gender Equality Report

by | 21 Feb 2018 | RHS Publications

In 2015, we published a landmark report on Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher Education, which sparked significant debate across the sector. As part of our 150th anniversary – and alongside our new Race, Ethnicity & Equality working group – we have...

150th Anniversary Transactions

by | 29 Jan 2018 | RHS Publications

As part of our 150th anniversary, Literary Director Prof. Andrew Spicer introduces a special collection of articles from the archives of our annual journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, made freely-available by Cambridge University Press. The first...

New Camden Volume on Medieval Petitions

by | 06 Nov 2017 | RHS Publications

Cambridge University Press have released an exciting new edition in our Camden Series of annotated primary source documents. Mark Ormrod of the University of York discusses the volume he has edited with Helen Killick (Reading) and Phil Bradford (York), Early Common...

Historical Transactions

by | 01 Nov 2017 | RHS Publications

Historical Transactions was created as part of the Society’s 150th anniversary in 2018. When the RHS reached a hundred, it published A Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Royal Historical Society 1868-1968 and of the Former Camden Society 1838-97 (1968)....