RHS Elections 2025: Insights into the Society’s Council and the role of Councillors

by | 23 Jul 2025 | General, RHS Work

    Each year the Royal Historical Society holds elections to appoint three new members to its Council. The Council is the Society’s governing body, with responsibility for the objectives and work of the RHS. The election round for 2025 is now open, with an...

10 Tips for Getting Your Monograph Published

by | 27 Jun 2024 | General, RHS Work

    On Friday 14 June 2024 the Royal Historical Society hosted a training workshop for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians: ‘Getting Published: A Guide to Monograph Publishing’.  The event brought together editors and academics to demystify...

History and memory in the 21st century

by | 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...

RHS ALEXANDER PRIZE – THE 2023 SHORTLIST

by | 01 Jun 2023 | General, RHS Prizes 2023

The Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize is awarded for a journal article or essay based on original historical research – written by a doctoral candidate or those recently awarded their doctorate – and published in a journal or an edited...

RHS Gladstone Book Prize – the 2023 Shortlist

by | 31 May 2023 | General, RHS Prizes 2023

    The 2023 shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of six history monographs published in 2022.   The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 by Misha Ewen (University of Pennsylvania Press) News from Moscow:...

RHS WHITFIELD BOOK PRIZE – THE 2023 SHORTLIST

by | 30 May 2023 | General, RHS Prizes 2023

    The 2023 shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of six history monographs published in 2022.   Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Síobhra Aiken (Irish Academic Press) The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power...