Online Resources: European History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

The Baudelaire Song Project  https://www.baudelairesong.org/ The resource hosts a database of all the song settings produced over Charles Baudelaire’s poetry through classical music and popular music settings, in French and in other translations, in musical scores and...

Online Resources: Victorian Britain

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Brunel Collection: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) Papers  https://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/special-collections/strengths/brunel/ The resource contains a diverse collection of material relating to Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Researchers can search through the online...

Co-production, Crowd-sourcing & the History of Railway Casualties

by | 12 Nov 2019 | Guest Posts

The Railway Work, Life & Death project has been  using crowd-sourcing and working with volunteers to co-produce research questions and topics. In this post for the RHS, the project team of Karen Baker, Mike Esbester and Helen Ford share a great example of how...

A Cultural History of Irish Identity on Display

by | 31 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Shahmima Akhtar joined the Royal Historical Society in July 2019 as Past and Present Fellow: Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History. Over the next two years Shahmima will work with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute for Historical Research to advance...

Charting a Course: From Shock Cities to Sexy Sailors (and Pilgrim Fathers)

by | 09 Jul 2019 | RHS Publications

Tom Hulme is author of After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship, available now in the RHS Studies on History Series with Boydell and Brewer. In this post for the Historical Transactions blog, he considers how the threads from that...