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

by royalhistsoc | 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 emgregory2020 | 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 royalhistsoc | 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...

“Lockdown Library”: Creating MEMSLib as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic

by royalhistsoc | 02 Sep 2020 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Research is at the core of a historian’s day-to-day life. From undergraduates and postgraduates completing final-year dissertations to practised scholars editing their book manuscripts, the current climate has certainly caused difficulties. How can we conduct research...

Professor Sarah Hamilton – A Virtual Lecture and Q&A

by royalhistsoc | 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...