Developing the Royal Historical Society archive: phase 2 begins

by royalhistsoc | 04 May 2022 | General

  The Society is very pleased to have recently received generous support, from the Marc Fitch Fund, for the second phase of its archive development programme. This new funding award follows the completion in January 2022 of ‘phase one’ of the project...

New Catalogue for the Society’s George W. Prothero papers (1866-1922)

by royalhistsoc | 25 Jan 2022 | Library and Archive

  In January 2022 the Society published a new catalogue of its papers of George W. Prothero (1848-1922), historian, literary editor and President of the RHS between 1901 and 1905. The Prothero collection runs to more than 1000 items and is the largest named...

Can we unlearn imperialism in photographic research?

by royalhistsoc | 11 Oct 2021 | Writing Race

How should historians engage with the source materials that record and communicate empire from the perspective of imperial rule? Are there ways of working with sources that enable researchers to free themselves from the intellectual constraints imposed by historical...

Archives and Research Libraries in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

This is a list of archives and research libraries in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The list is divided into sub-categories to make it easier to find which archives or libraries you are interested in visiting, including cathedral libraries, private...

Working in Archives

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

In this post, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers advice to those who are beginning to work with historical archives. Mary explains how to locate archival information, understanding how...