Brothels, bowling and bad behaviour: life on the fringes of late medieval London

by | 18 Feb 2022 | RHS Publications

  To coincide with the release of her new book The Margins of Late Medieval London, Dr Charlotte Berry takes a look at life on the fringes of the city in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries through the story of one small community. Charlotte’s book,...

Online Resources: History of London

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Charles Booth’s London: Poverty Maps and Policy Notebooks https://booth.lse.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through the notebooks from Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903) by providing visitors to the site to search through 41...

Climate in the History Curriculum

by | 13 Oct 2020 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

In September, Amanda Power spoke to the RHS Education Policy Committee about putting climate into the history curriculum. In this post for the RHS blog, which draws on that presentation, she considers how we might develop history curricula to integrate climate, and...

Professor Sarah Hamilton – A Virtual Lecture and Q&A

by | 18 Jun 2020 | Online Events, RHS Work

“Responding to Violence: Liturgy, Authority and Sacred Places c.900-c.1100”   Professor Sarah Hamilton was due to give her lecture in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL, London on Friday 1 May.  As COVID-19 made this impossible, she agreed to...

Gladstone Rings a Bell

by | 06 Dec 2018 | RHS Publications

Dr Matthew Champion reflects on time and bells after hearing that he had won this year’s Gladstone Prize for his recent first book. When I first heard that my book, The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries, had won the Royal...