Sir Earle Page’s war diaries, 1941-42: new Camden Series volume

by | 17 Jun 2021 | RHS Publications

  Published this month, the latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is Sir Earle Page’s British War Cabinet Diary, 1941-1942 (2021). Here, the book’s editors, Kent Fedorowich and Jayne Gifford, introduce the Australian...

Travels in ‘Coal Country’ – and other New Historical Perspectives

by | 29 May 2021 | RHS Publications

New Historical Perspectives (NHP) is the Society’s book series for early career historians, published by the Institute of Historical Research and University of London Press. All titles appear as free Open Access texts, as well as hard and paperback print and...

Data Protection and Historical Research: The Basics

by | 12 Apr 2021 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

Recent data protection laws, implemented across Europe in 2018, have implications for academic researchers. The Royal Historical Society recently published a set of guidelines to help researchers navigate the legal requirements around data protection. Here, Dr...

RHS Transactions Journal – A New Approach to Submissions

by | 15 Feb 2021 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

For more than a century, the papers read at the Royal Historical Society’s London meetings have been published in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. RHS Literary Director, Professor Andrew Spicer, introduces a new approach and new submission process to...

RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Roadmap for Change II

by | 25 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Publications, RHS Work

Header Image: The sculpture “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)” by British artist Marc Quinn stands on the plinth in Bristol where the statue of the seventeenth-century merchant and slave-trader Edward Colston had been since 1895. The statue of Colston was...

Seeing and defining fascism: historical lessons from mid-century Spain

by | 06 Oct 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications

In this post, published jointly with the IHR, Dr Matthew Kerry (Stirling University) introduces his new book, Unite Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic, which was published by University of London Press on 30 September. Unite...