Historians and Sustainability

by | 31 Oct 2019 | Guest Posts

How can historians respond to the demands of a career that can be both environmentally – and emotionally – unsustainable? In this post for the RHS, Toby Green and Simon Sleight introduce their working paper on “Historians and Sustainability”....

Bloody Bunce: A Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Sierra Leone

by | 29 Oct 2019 | Guest Posts

Four hundred years ago, in 1619, the first African slaves landed in the United States. The 1619 Project has made an important contribution to our understanding of the legacy of slavery in the United States, but there has been less conversation about the places where...

The RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report: One Year On

by shahmimaakhtar | 18 Oct 2019 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

It has been a year since the publication of the RHS’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change (2018). In this post, Shahmima Akhtar, our Past and Present Fellow, reflects on the work that has been done in this area, and our...

Getting Heads Together: Reflections on the first RHS History HoDs Meeting

by | 10 Oct 2019 | RHS Work

What’s it like to head up a History department? What challenges and opportunities do History HoDs face, and what’s the best way of responding to them? In May 2019, over 20 Heads of UK History departments gathered under the auspices of the RHS to compare notes, share...

Insta-Research: Social Media and the Historian

by kstrasdin | 23 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts

As a scholar working in a rural UK university, far from peers in her field of study, Kate Strasdin decided to embrace Instagram and Twitter as a means of professional engagement, and to explore the potential for virtual communication when travel to conferences and...