RHS Gladstone Book Prize – the 2022 Shortlist

by royalhistsoc | 01 Jun 2022 | General, RHS Prizes 2022

    The 2022 shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of six excellent history monographs published in 2021.   Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle by Emily Bridger (Boydell & Brewer)...

RHS Whitfield Book Prize – the 2022 Shortlist

by royalhistsoc | 30 May 2022 | General, RHS Prizes 2022

    The 2022 shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of six excellent history monographs published in 2021.   Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan (University of California Press) Histories of...

Becoming a Historian: an Informal Guide

by royalhistsoc | 18 May 2022 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    How do we undertake a major historical research project for the first time? What should we do to ensure that a project’s completed? How do we best engage in debate about our own, and others’, work? How can we apply historical understanding to...

‘Quando Era Jovem…’ – Towards an Intergenerational, Oral History of Youth in Maputo, Mozambique

by royalhistsoc | 21 Apr 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

    How does an oral historian, working in Mozambique, respond to the lockdowns and travel restrictions of recent years? Johanna Wetzel is a PhD student researching the history of youth — ser jovem or juventude — in Maputo, with particular...

Marking 5 years and 50,000 downloads of ‘New Historical Perspectives’, 2016-21

by royalhistsoc | 20 Dec 2021 | General, RHS Publications

In this final post of 2021 we mark five years since the creation of New Historical Perspectives, the Society’s Open Access book series for early career historians. The NHP Series and its distinctive publishing model was created in 2016 under its first...