by royalhistsoc | 19 Jan 2021 | RHS Work
For a short series of blog posts to start 2021, we asked some of the new RHS councillors and office holders to introduce themselves. Dr Emily Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex and a historian of modern Britain. She was elected to the...
by royalhistsoc | 30 Nov 2020 | RHS Work, Teaching Portal: Main Blog
The Royal Historical Society launches its new online Teaching Portal today. Ken Fincham and Peter d’Sena, former and current RHS Vice Presidents for Education, who have led the portal’s working group, explain more: The Royal Historical Society is...
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....