Gladstone Rings a Bell
Matthew Champion reflects on time and bells after winning this year’s Gladstone Prize.
New Historical Perspectives
Prof. Penny Summerfield discusses our new Open Access Early Career book series, New Historical Perspectives.
2nd Gender Equality Report
The Royal Historical Society has released a second report on gender equality in UK History.
RHS Race Report
The Royal Historical Society has released a landmark report on race in UK History.
Global History for Schools
This Black History Month, Miles Larmer discusses Oxford History Faculty’s new resources for schools.
450 Years since The Dutch Revolt
Prof Judith Pollmann reflects on the 80-year ‘Dutch Revolt’.
New Camden Volume on Henry Piers
Brian Mac Cuarta SJ discussed his exciting new volume in our Camden Series.
Camden Collection – Free Access to mark RHS at 150
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press are making a selection of ten volumes from the Camden Series freely available to researchers until the end of the year.
Global History – RHS Symposium
As part of our 150th anniversary programme, we recently hosted a symposium on ‘The Future of History: Going Global in the University’ with the Oxford Centre for Global History at the Ashmolean Museum and Bodleian Libraries. Dr Priya Atwal, a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, reflects on the symposium and asks how we can make global history ‘work’.
National Archives Research Priorities
We partner with many organisations to host events and promote the study of history. Each summer we sponsor a series of free lectures at The National Archives, where our colleagues do invaluable work preserving and sharing the nation’s historical records. This year’s series, ‘Mapping Movement: People, Place, & Power’, begins this month, following the launch of The National Archive’s new research priorities. Dr Anna Sexton is Head of Research at The National Archives, and here she introduces the new priorities and future directions for research.
Studies in History 100
Ceri Law introduces her new book on Reformations at the University of Cambridge, the 100th title in our Studies in History series.
The RHS & the Bibliography of British & Irish History
Prof. Leslie Howsam explores the Royal Historical Society’s role in the development of history publishing, and examines the history of our Bibliography of British & Irish History.
