Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England

by | 13 Apr 2022 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications

    To coincide with the release of her new monograph, Dr Sarah Fox introduces us to the multiple stages and community focus of Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England. As Sarah argues, the cycle of eighteenth-century birthing began and concluded much...

Justifying the arts in early modern Britain

by | 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...

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

by | 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...

‘Positive Action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour

by | 04 Oct 2021 | Writing Race

In August of this year, the Royal Historical Society organised its first ‘positive action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour. The initiative was led by the Society’s Race, Ethnicity and Equality Working Group which was responsible for the...

Royal Historical Society invites applications for new governance and journal roles

by | 31 Aug 2021 | General, RHS Publications, RHS Work

We invite applications from RHS Fellows for four posts central to the Society’s governance and development as a learned society.  Two are Officer roles on the Council, the Society’s governing body: Honorary Secretary and Secretary for Professional...