Dr Heidi Egginton and Dr Zoë Thomas introduce their new, edited collection: 'Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain' -- the latest title in the RHS's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series. The collection, available as a free Open Access edition, expands conceptions of professional identity for different women and men in the past and shows how working lives might be more equitably reimagined in the future.

How should historians engage with the source materials that record and communicate empire from the perspective of imperial rule? Are there ways of working with sources that enable researchers to free themselves from the intellectual constraints imposed by historical imagery and its categorisation? Maria Creech explores her methodological approach to 'unlearning' imperialism.

In August of this year, the Society organised its first ‘positive action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour. The initiative was led by the RHS's Race, Ethnicity and Equality Working Group which was responsible for the RHS's Race Report (2018). Here, Dr Diya Gupta and Dr Jonathan Saha explain the motivations for the workshop, and reflect on the outcomes of what's hoped will be the first in a programme of focused training events.