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.
RHS Visit to Belfast
RHS officers visited Belfast to meet with staff and students at Queen’s University.
Historical Transactions
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2017 Prize Winners
Margot Finn announced the 2017 RHS Prize Winners.
Prothero Lecture
On 7 July Professor Simon Dixon presented the 2017 Prothero Lecture.
