Helen Newsome-Chandler introduces her new volume in the Society’s Camden Series, 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', published in August 2025. This volume presents the surviving holograph correspondence of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots as a stand-alone edition for the first time. The 111 holograph letters and 4 ‘hybrid’ letters form an unprecedented epistolary archive, featuring the largest collection of holograph correspondence written in English or Scots of any medieval or early modern queen. The letters chart Margaret’s life as a late medieval queen, including her dual identity as queen of Scots and an English princess, and her important role in Anglo-Scots politics and diplomacy. To mark publication of this important volume, the Introduction and full text of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' are now available, free to read, via Cambridge University Press, until 30 September 2025.

In April 2023, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities, natural and social sciences came together for a one-day workshop to study past environmental change and its effects on human societies. Selected conversations from this workshop have recently been published as 'The Future of (Environmental History', a roundtable article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. To mark publication, Alex Hibberts identifies four suggestions for the future of (environmental) history that arose from the workshop. These proposals consider historians' contribution to environmental debate, the skills required by historians to consider questions of environmental change, and the need to approach environmental history as more than a sub-field of historical research.

Each year the Royal Historical Society holds elections to appoint three current Fellows as new members to its Council. The Council is the Society’s governing body, with responsibility for the objectives and work of the RHS. The election round for 2025 is now open, with an invitation to all RHS Fellows to submit nominations to stand in this year’s ballot. All Councillors are Fellows of the Society, and those seeking election must also be current Fellows. If you’re a Fellow, and interested in standing for election, this brief commentary offers an insight into the Council, and the activities and experiences of five current Councillors. We hope this answers the questions you might have before submitting your nomination before the closing date of Friday 11 August.