Parades and Power in Early Modern Japan

by royalhistsoc | 11 May 2022 | General, RHS Publications

    In her new article for Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Rebekah Clements explores the complexities of political sovereignty in early modern Japan through the practice of ‘alternate attendance’. The requirement for...

Justifying the arts in early modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 16 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  What value did people place on the arts in post-Reformation Britain? And what was the role of the clergy in sponsoring musical performance in particular? In this post, Dr Hannah Yip explores the justification and championing of early modern artistic endeavour...

Online Resources: History of London

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Charles Booth’s London: Poverty Maps and Policy Notebooks https://booth.lse.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through the notebooks from Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903) by providing visitors to the site to search through 41...

“Lockdown Library”: Creating MEMSLib as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic

by royalhistsoc | 02 Sep 2020 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Research is at the core of a historian’s day-to-day life. From undergraduates and postgraduates completing final-year dissertations to practised scholars editing their book manuscripts, the current climate has certainly caused difficulties. How can we conduct research...

A Seven-Year-Old Monster

by Brodie Waddell | 18 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts

The Many-Headed Monster is one of the longest-running and most successful of academic historical blogs. It was founded, and is still run, by Dr Mark Hailwood (Bristol), Dr Laura Sangha (Exeter), Dr Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck), and Dr Jonathan Willis (Birmingham), four...