150 years of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1872-2022)

by royalhistsoc | 17 Nov 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, our academic journal. A century and a half on, the 2022 volume of Transactions — published this month — also sees significant changes to the content,...

Cataloguing the RHS Archive 2: The Quest for the 1583 High Commission

by Eilish Gregory | 25 Sep 2019 | Guest Posts, Library and Archive, RHS Work

The Royal Historical Society is currently revamping its archive and updating its accompanying catalogue, a project that includes the digitisation of the academic and personal papers of George Walter Prothero, the first RHS President. In their second blog post on the...

Cataloguing the RHS Archive, 1: George Prothero’s Papers

by Administrator | 03 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts, Library and Archive, RHS Work

As part of the Society’s 150th anniversary celebrations (2018), the RHS embarked on a project to revamp its archive and update its accompanying catalogue, in order to improve the accessibility of the collections and to increase awareness of Society’s past. The project...

Camden Collection – Free Access to mark RHS at 150

by | 15 Aug 2018 | RHS Publications

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press are making a selection of ten volumes from the Camden Series freely available to researchers until the end of the year. The Camden Series is the cornerstone of the RHS...

The RHS & the Bibliography of British & Irish History

by | 18 Jun 2018 | RHS Publications

Prof. Leslie Howsam explores the Royal Historical Society’s role in the development of history publishing, and examines the history of our Bibliography of British & Irish History. History was not always a field of study based on rigorous research in...