Brothels, bowling and bad behaviour: life on the fringes of late medieval London

by royalhistsoc | 18 Feb 2022 | RHS Publications

  To coincide with the release of her new book The Margins of Late Medieval London, Dr Charlotte Berry takes a look at life on the fringes of the city in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries through the story of one small community. Charlotte’s book,...

Ethics, White Scholars and the History of Race in Modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 29 Mar 2021 | Writing Race

How can researchers work sensitively with recent oral histories, particularly when the interviews they are using are not their own? In this post for our new Writing Race blog series, Jessica White reflects on some of the ethical questions she has encountered as a...

Queer History in Northern Ireland – Tom Hulme

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections

Dr Tom Hulme is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a specialist in urban culture (1880-1940), in Britain, the US and (most recently) Ireland; and the popular place of the past in...

Charting a Course: From Shock Cities to Sexy Sailors (and Pilgrim Fathers)

by minifuma15 | 09 Jul 2019 | RHS Publications

Tom Hulme is author of After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship, available now in the RHS Studies on History Series with Boydell and Brewer. In this post for the Historical Transactions blog, he considers how the threads from that...

The Emperor, His Castle and Modern Japan.

by | 30 Apr 2019 | Guest Posts

On May 1, 2019, Prince Naruhito (b. 1960) becomes the emperor of Japan following the abdication of his father, emperor Akihito (b. 1933), after a thirty-year reign. The enthronement ceremonies will take place in the Imperial Palace, a vast former castle complex that...