History for Ukraine: 48+ historians, 24 hours

by | 21 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts

  History for Ukraine takes place on Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th March. Over 24 hours — starting at 12 noon on Saturday 26th — more than 48 historians and genealogists from the UK, Europe, Australasia and North America will each speak for...

Roadmap for Change Update: The RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report one year on.

by | 11 Dec 2019 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Publications, RHS Work

If you have been following the RHS, you will know that we have been involved in pressing to make History a more equal, inclusive and welcoming space. Our 2018 Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report committed the RHS to reporting on its progress a year on, and today we...

Professor Emma Griffin: Introducing the next President-Elect

by | 06 Dec 2019 | RHS Work

The Royal Historical Society will formally announce the appointment of  our new President-Elect at its AGM this evening. We asked Emma Griffin, Professor of Modern British History at the University of East Anglia to introduce herself, her research and her reasons for...

Plan S and History Journals

by | 26 Sep 2019 | RHS Publications

Are History journals ready for Plan S? What are the implications for historians of cOAlition S’s mandate that all research that its funders fund be published according to Plan S open access requirements? Between July and September 2019, the Royal Historical...

Insta-Research: Social Media and the Historian

by | 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...