150 years of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1872-2022)

by royalhistsoc | 17 Nov 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, our academic journal. A century and a half on, the 2022 volume of Transactions — published this month — also sees significant changes to the content,...

A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History

by royalhistsoc | 22 Jun 2022 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

    In their new article, now published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Stuart McManus and Michael T. Tworek offer a new approach to early modern global history. What they dub ‘(dis)entangled history’ is a way to combine the...

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...