RHS Update – Autumn 2019

by | 16 Sep 2019 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

It’s been a busy few months at the RHS. As we put the summer behind us, here is an update on the projects that we are working on at the moment, and how you can get involved with our work. LGBT+ Survey  We launched our LGBT+ Survey of historians at the beginning of...

Insta-Research: Social Media and the Historian

by kstrasdin | 23 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts

As a scholar working in a rural UK university, far from peers in her field of study, Kate Strasdin decided to embrace Instagram and Twitter as a means of professional engagement, and to explore the potential for virtual communication when travel to conferences and...

Charting a Course: From Shock Cities to Sexy Sailors (and Pilgrim Fathers)

by minifuma15 | 09 Jul 2019 | RHS Publications

Tom Hulme is author of After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship, available now in the RHS Studies on History Series with Boydell and Brewer. In this post for the Historical Transactions blog, he considers how the threads from that...

A Historian and his Times: Sushil Chaudhury and the History of Eighteenth-Century Bengal

by | 27 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts

Professor Sushil Chaudhury, historian of eighteenth-century Bengal, and General President Elect of the Indian History Congress, died earlier this year. In this piece for the RHS blog, Professor Peter J. Marshall places his friend’s work in the context of his...

Writing a History Textbook: Seven Things I’ve Learnt

by | 20 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Matthew McCormack has recently finished writing Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688-1928.  A textbook aimed at the student market, it will be published by Routledge in June 2019. In this post for Historical Transactions, Matthew shares how the process differed...