by royalhistsoc | 25 Nov 2020 | Race Update, 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...
by royalhistsoc | 18 Nov 2020 | RHS Work
Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...
by royalhistsoc | 27 Jul 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Work
In the academic year 2017-18, Brooks Marmon received the Society’s Martin Lynn Scholarship to support his doctoral research on the impact of African decolonisation on the politics of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) in the 1950s and 60s. Here, Brook reflects on...
by royalhistsoc | 22 Jul 2020 | Online Events, RHS Work
In a virtual ceremony which went live this afternoon, the Royal Historical Society has announced its Publication, Teaching and Fellowship Awards for 2020. The ceremony also included its joint awards with the Institute of Historical Research, and the IHR Prizes....
by royalhistsoc | 22 Jul 2020 | Online Events, RHS Work
Welcome to the RHS Book Prizes 2020! Ahead of the full Virtual RHS Publication, Fellowship and Teaching Awards for 2020, which will be presented later today, Wednesday 22 July, at 16.30 BST, we are delighted to present all twelve of the shortlisted authors for...
by royalhistsoc | 18 Jun 2020 | Online Events, RHS Work
“Responding to Violence: Liturgy, Authority and Sacred Places c.900-c.1100” Professor Sarah Hamilton was due to give her lecture in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL, London on Friday 1 May. As COVID-19 made this impossible, she agreed to...