Royal Historical Society invites applications for new governance and journal roles

by Administrator | 31 Aug 2021 | General, RHS Publications, RHS Work

We invite applications from RHS Fellows for four posts central to the Society’s governance and development as a learned society.  Two are Officer roles on the Council, the Society’s governing body: Honorary Secretary and Secretary for Professional...

RHS Transactions Journal – A New Approach to Submissions

by royalhistsoc | 15 Feb 2021 | RHS Publications, RHS Work

For more than a century, the papers read at the Royal Historical Society’s London meetings have been published in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. RHS Literary Director, Professor Andrew Spicer, introduces a new approach and new submission process to...

Looking Back, Looking Forward – 2020 at the RHS

by | 22 Jan 2020 | RHS Work

With 2019 well behind us, what are some of the Royal Historical Society’s main priorities for 2020? Events! As ever we have a full programme of lectures and symposia. For our first lecture of the year, on Friday 7 February, we welcome Dr Andrew Arsan (University...

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...

450 Years since The Dutch Revolt

by | 05 Sep 2018 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications

The 450th anniversary of the start of the Dutch Revolt – the Eighty Years War as it is known in Dutch – is being commemorated in 2018 by a series of events, including an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. In this blog, Prof. Judith Pollmann reflects on Prof. Geoffrey...