150 years of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1872-2022)

by royalhistsoc | 17 Nov 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, our academic journal. A century and a half on, the 2022 volume of Transactions — published this month — also sees significant changes to the content,...

UKRI Open Access Policy for the Arts and Humanities: FAQs

by royalhistsoc | 28 Mar 2022 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Online Resources, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE

    In August 2021  UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) announced its future policy regarding Open Access publishing. UKRI is the overarching body responsible for government research strategy and funding for universities in the UK. It brings together the...

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...

Counting the cost of war

by royalhistsoc | 09 Nov 2021 | General, RHS Publications

Published this month, the latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is British Financial Diplomacy with North America, 1944-1946. The Diary of Frederic Harmer and the Washington Reports of Robert Brand (November 2021). Here, the book’s editor,...

‘I open up my mouth and I just sing’: Studying Black health and the humanities

by royalhistsoc | 05 Sep 2021 | General, Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

In the eleventh post for our ‘Writing Race’ series, Dr Amber Lascelles introduces the Black Health and the Humanities project at the University of Bristol. The project sits at the intersection of Black humanities and medical humanities, and brings together...