Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England

by royalhistsoc | 13 Apr 2022 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications

    To coincide with the release of her new monograph, Dr Sarah Fox introduces us to the multiple stages and community focus of Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England. As Sarah argues, the cycle of eighteenth-century birthing began and concluded much...

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,...

Marking 5 years and 50,000 downloads of ‘New Historical Perspectives’, 2016-21

by royalhistsoc | 20 Dec 2021 | General, RHS Publications

In this final post of 2021 we mark five years since the creation of New Historical Perspectives, the Society’s Open Access book series for early career historians. The NHP Series and its distinctive publishing model was created in 2016 under its first...

The Politics of Women’s Suffrage. Local, National and International Dimensions

by royalhistsoc | 15 Nov 2021 | General, RHS Publications

In this post, Dr Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Dr Lyndsey Jenkins introduce their new edited collection, The Politics of Women’s Suffrage. Local, National and International Dimensions: the tenth title in the RHS’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book series, published by...

Precarious Professionals: Gender, identities and social change in modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 21 Oct 2021 | General, RHS Publications

In this post, Dr Heidi Egginton and Dr Zoë Thomas introduce their new, edited collection: Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain — the latest title in the RHS’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book...