Counting the cost of war

by royalhistsoc | 09 Nov 2021 | General, RHS Publications

Published this month, the latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is British Financial Diplomacy with North America, 1944-1946. The Diary of Frederic Harmer and the Washington Reports of Robert Brand (November 2021). Here, the book’s editor,...

Sir Earle Page’s war diaries, 1941-42: new Camden Series volume

by royalhistsoc | 17 Jun 2021 | RHS Publications

  Published this month, the latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is Sir Earle Page’s British War Cabinet Diary, 1941-1942 (2021). Here, the book’s editors, Kent Fedorowich and Jayne Gifford, introduce the Australian...

New Camden Volume: The Letters of Paul de Foix: French Ambassador at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1562–1566

by | 12 Feb 2020 | RHS Publications

The Letters of Paul de Foix: French Ambassador at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1562–1566 (2019) is a continuation of David Potter’s previous volume, A Knight of Malta at the Court of Elizabeth I, (Camden 5th series, vol.45) published in 2014. Here he describes the...

Looking Back, Looking Forward – 2020 at the RHS

by | 22 Jan 2020 | RHS Work

With 2019 well behind us, what are some of the Royal Historical Society’s main priorities for 2020? Events! As ever we have a full programme of lectures and symposia. For our first lecture of the year, on Friday 7 February, we welcome Dr Andrew Arsan (University...

New Camden Volume: British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, vol. 2: 1884-1897

by | 10 May 2019 | RHS Publications

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the publication of British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871–1897, Volume 56 in the Camden Fifth Series, edited by Markus Mösslang. In this post, Dr Mösslang introduces the volume, and its part in the larger British...