Diverse History/ Hanes Amrywiol – RHS Symposium
In April, we hosted a symposium on Diverse History/Hanes Amrywiol at the University of South Wales in Cardiff. The event highlighted the great diversity of historical research and engagement in Wales, as well as engaging Welsh colleagues in our ongoing work with gender and racial inequality. RHS Council member Professor Trish Skinner of Swansea University reflects on the event as one of the organisers, and Dr Emily Cock of Cardiff University offers her reflections from an early career perspective.
New Camden Volume on Lord Burghley
An new volume in our Camden Series.
Revolutionary Ireland
Our latest volume of Transactions includes a number of articles on revolutionary Ireland that emerged from our 2016 symposium at Teesside University.
Old Words and New Worlds
RHS prizewinner Aysha Pollnitz discusses how her research moved from the ‘old world’ to the ‘new’.
Public History Prize
We recently announced the winners of the 2018 Public History Prizes.
LGBT History Month
Prof. Richard Bruce Parkinson reflects on celebrating ‘a great unrecorded history’.
2nd Gender Equality Report
The RHS has announced a follow-up to our landmark 2015 Gender Equality report.
150th Anniversary Transactions
A special collection of freely-accessible articles from the archives of our annual journal.
Race, Ethnicity & Equality Group
Building on our work on gender equality for historians in UK Higher Education, the RHS has established a Race, Ethnicity & Equality (REE) Working Group to examine the challenges facing black and minority ethnic historians in UK HE. Below, Dr Sadiah Qureshi (Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham) offers her personal reflections on joining the group, and co-chairs Dr Suzanne Bardgett (Head of Research & Academic Partnerships at Imperial War Museum) & Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (Reader in World History at University of Cambridge) introduce its work.
Controversial Public History
We recently visited Queen’s University Belfast to co-host a symposium on “Teaching & Researching Controversial History”. Ahead of our Public History Prize awards later this month, Dr Olwen Purdue (Director of the QUB Centre for Public History) reflects on the difficulties of approaching controversial public history in Northern Ireland.
Encouraging Historians
Jane Winters reflects on her first encounter with the RHS.
New Camden Volume on Medieval Petitions
A new release in our Camden Series.
