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...

Revolutionary Ireland

by | 23 Apr 2018 | RHS Publications

Our latest volume of Transactions includes a number of articles on revolutionary Ireland that emerged from our 2016 symposium at Teesside University. Dr Colin Reid, Lecturer in Modern British & Irish History at University of Sheffield, reflects on the history of...

Old Words and New Worlds

by | 10 Apr 2018 | RHS Publications

Dr Aysha Pollnitz, Assistant Professor of History at Rice University, won the Society’s 2016 Whitfield Prize for her book ‘Princely Education in early modern Britain’. Here she discusses how her research has moved on to liberal education in early...

150th Anniversary Transactions

by | 29 Jan 2018 | RHS Publications

As part of our 150th anniversary, Literary Director Prof. Andrew Spicer introduces a special collection of articles from the archives of our annual journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, made freely-available by Cambridge University Press. The first...