Race Update 1 – Highlights from 2019 Reports

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...

How Can Historians Achieve Inclusivity in Digital Archives?

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...

Historians, wildlife, and habitats

by | 19 Nov 2019 | Guest Posts

Why do we study the past? One reason is to understand the present, and how the things we think of as ‘normal’ developed out of very different pasts. At a time of mounting concern about the state of the environment, Tom Williamson argues that understanding the...

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”....

RHS Update – Autumn 2019

by | 16 Sep 2019 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

It’s been a busy few months at the RHS. As we put the summer behind us, here is an update on the projects that we are working on at the moment, and how you can get involved with our work. LGBT+ Survey  We launched our LGBT+ Survey of historians at the beginning of...