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...
by shahmimaakhtar | 31 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts, 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...
by minifuma15 | 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...
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...
by | 23 Apr 2018 | RHS Publications
Our latest volume of Transactions includes a number of articles on revolutionary Ireland that emerged from our 2016 symposium at Teesside University. Dr Colin Reid, Lecturer in Modern British & Irish History at University of Sheffield, reflects on the history of...