How Can Historians Achieve Inclusivity in Digital Archives?

by | 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...

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

by | 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...

Teaching History in a Digital Age

by | 12 Sep 2019 | General, Guest Posts

Digital transformations in society and culture have fundamentally changed the historian’s relationship with the past.  So how do we incorporate this into our teaching? In this post for Historical Transactions, Dr Sharon Webb and Dr James Baker, winners of the...

The Economist and History: Economical with the Facts?

by | 19 Aug 2019 | RHS Work

On 25 July 2019,  Professor Jo Fox, IHR Director, and Professor Margot Finn, RHS President, sent the following letter to The Economist. It drew attention to both the factual errors and the problematic interpretation of a ‘Bagehot’ column published on 18...