by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Resources
This page lists some academic and professional groups and networks for LGBT+ historians, and histories, museums, archives and major collections of LGBT+ history. These range from small community projects to large national institutions. If you would like to recommend...
by royalhistsoc | 07 Sep 2020 | Guest Posts
Digitisation projects, as well as the rise in the use of social media by libraries, heritage organisations and authors are widening access to visual historical materials. But what are the risks of making images of vulnerable people, including medical patients...
by royalhistsoc | 07 May 2020 | RHS Work
Each year, the Royal Historical Society aims to support around 200 UK-based early career researchers (of any nationality) with grant awards totalling just over £60,000. COVID-19 is having a major impact on the scholars we would normally fund. Here, RHS President...
by shahmimaakhtar | 16 Jan 2020 | Race Update
Welcome to the first post of the new RHS Race Update blog series! In this new series, Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Past & Present Fellow for the Royal Historical Society’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History initiative will post on subjects related to race, ethnicity...
by Victoria Leonard | 16 Dec 2019 | Guest Posts
Historians have always been preoccupied with archives of knowledge – how information is stored and categorised, how it is accessed or restricted, how the integrity of evidence is determined. These are universal questions for those who study the past. They also...