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At its latest meeting on 2 July 2025, the RHS Council elected 78 Fellows, 48 Associate Fellows, 45 Members and 62 Postgraduate Members, a total of 233 people newly associated with the Society, from today.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a wide range of fields; but also include curators, librarians, heritage specialists, independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from heritage, learned societies, libraries and archives, teaching, and public and community history.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals working in universities, culture and heritage, education, the civil service and broadcasting – together with independent and community historians and genealogists.

Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in history, or related subjects, at 44 different universities in the UK, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States.

All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to 11 August and 13 October 2025. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications; and how to apply, are available here.

New Fellows, elected July 2025

• Ben Anderson
• Katherine Aron-Beller
• Nicholas Baker-Brian
• Catherine Bates
• Samuel Beckton
• Saliha Belmessous
• Stacy Boldrick
• Stuart Brookes
• Robyne Calvert
• Steven Casey
• Richard Cassidy
• Song-Chuan Chen
• Margaret Coombe
• Esther Liberman Cuenca
• Antoine Destemberg
• Pragya Dhital
• John Fahey
• Andrew Fitzmaurice
• Isabelle Gapp
• Laura Gelfand
• Harrison Glancy
• Trevor Griffiths
• Aviva Guttmann
• Ewan Harrison
• Daniel Hill
• Peter Hodgkinson
• Michael Hooper
• Glenn Horridge
• Luke Houghton
• Christophe Huchet de Quénetain
• Alex Imrie
• Ben Jackson
• Marc Jaffre
• Michelle Johansen
• Geraldine Johnson
• David Katz
• Damien Kempf
• Sarah Kenny
• Wu Kin Pan
• Daniel Langton
• Stefano Locatelli
• Matt Lodder
• Harriet Lyon
• Amy Matthewson
• Karen McAulay
• Claire McNulty
• Krista Milne
• Eloise Moss
• Olukoya Ogen
• Kathryn Olmsted
• Martin Pegler
• Helen Pfeifer
• Catherine (Katie) Pickles
• Helen Pierce
• Kerry Pimblott
• Oisín Plumb
• Peter Radford
• Dries Raeymaekers
• Eric Rauchway
• Anne Redgate
• Benedetta Rossi
• Alison Rowlands
• Raphael Schäfer
• Rachel Silberstein
• J.E. Smyth
• James Stafford
• Jeffrey Tatum
• Hillary Taylor
• Jennifer Tucker
• Steve Tuffnell
• Michelle Tusan
• Heidi Tworek
• Sarina Wakefield
• Stephen Walker
• Elise Watson
• David Wenkel
• Samuel White
• Brandon Yen

New Associate Fellows, elected July 2025

• Abhimanyu Arni
• Susannah Bain
• Alistair Cartwright
• Hiu Ki Chan
• Onor Crummay
• Christopher Davis
• Samantha Dobbie
• Razvan Dumitru
• Matthias Ebejer
• Ngozi Edeagu
• Shushun Gao
• Lorraine Grimes
• Christina Gundersen
• Courtney Herber
• Beth Hodgett
• Waliu Ismaila
• Zoë Jackson
• Anna Jamieson
• Pauline Jarvis
• Alexander Kelleher
• Debbie Kilroy
• Emily Lanman
• Ewan Lawry
• Gary Lawson
• Maroš Melichárek
• Henry Moore
• Safya Morshed
• Andrii Pastushenko
• Eóin Phillips
• Ellen Pilsworth
• Anna-Marie Pípalová
• Emily Price
• Liam Redfern
• Michelle Reynolds
• Beckie Rutherford
• Aruni Samarakoon
• Harry Sanderson
• Kathryn Steenson
• Guan Kiong Teh
• Natasa Thoudam
• Jonathan Tickle
• Reynold Kai Won Tsang
• Sylvia Valentine
• Diane Watts
• Sam Wilkinson
• Elena Yi-Jia Zeng
• Shuai Zhang
• Tom Zille

New Members, elected July 2025

• Sergey Alexandrov
• Hannah Bardsley
• Victoria Bentata Azaz
• Ryan Born
• Claire Clarke
• Nicola Clarke
• Barry County
• Katie David
• Caroline Dillon
• Patrick Gallagher
• Ellis Grayson
• Stephen Harper
• Jill Harrison
• Timothy Harte
• Harriet Hendley Jones
• LeSabre Hubbard
• Nicholas Hughes-Browne
• John Jones
• Swaminathan Kannan
• Habeeb Liasu
• Sakshi Mavi
• Daryl Mears
• Jim Metcalfe
• Anna Montell Magnusson
• Zak Mudie
• Saradindu Mukherjee
• James Ndua
• Angela OConnor
• Caroline Offord
• Christoph Pelanek
• Snizhanna Petrova
• Jennifer Phillips
• Lukas Pohle
• Mithra Iyengar Ramprabu
• Vishak Ratheesh Nair
• Paolo Ronchi
• Huw Rowlands
• Adam Royle
• Maria Saltrese
• Olga Sieluzycka
• Michael Wasserman
• Anthony Wentworth
• Rowan Whitcomb
• Theron Williams
• Mark Wilson

New Postgraduate Members, elected July 2025

• Luke Adams
• Zamdar Ahmad
• Benjamin Ansley
• Mary Banks
• Paul Barrett
• Alexander Birt
• Tom Black
• Amber Bourke
• Conor Brockbank
• Amy Maria Butler
• Marco Büttner
• Emily Cadger
• Thomas Casemore
• Ben Cassell
• Bidisha Chutia
• Melis  Doeh
• Lisa Dyer
• Evelyn Earl
• Matthew Eaton
• Ali Erginsoy
• Madeleine Fontenay
• Elizabeth Gilkey
• Soumyadeep Guha
• Maeve Hagerty
• Kevin Harris
• Carter Henley
• Anna Hill
• Aaron Hoggle
• Amy Hopkins
• Boyang Hou
• Po Chun Hsu
• Roseanne Hurst
• Iacovos Iacovides
• Evrydiki Ioannidou
• Thomas Keegan-Hobbs
• Ronan Kennedy
• Ayuk Lawrence Asam
• Sayan Lodh
• Ashe Loyd
• Chris Maloney
• Lynn Marriott
• Henriette Marsden
• Jennifer McFarland
• Jonathan Moore
• Simon Mortimer
• Clare O’Neill
• James Orchin
• Loan Peuch
• Clive Porro
• Mathis Prevost
• Pili Rigam
• Shadi Seifouri
• Nitika Sharma
• Carly Silvers
• Charmaine Simpson
• Nur’Ain Taha
• Adebukola Taiwo
• Amy Thorpe
• Rogan Vlahakis
• Lewis Willcox
• Klaudia Wroblewska
• Haohao Zhang

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The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further information on each programme, eligibility and how to apply please follow the links below.

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Closing dates in September 2025

• Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History providing a grant of £1,500 to support postgraduate research for a PhD in African history. The Scholarship is open Postgraduate Members of the Royal Historical Society, currently studying for a PhD. Next closing date: Friday 5 September.
• Early Career Fellowship Grants provide funding of £2,000, maximum, for discrete research projects lasting no more than six months. Grants are open to early career historians within five years of submission of their doctoral thesis. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 5 September.
• Open Research Support Grants provide funding of either £500 or £1000 to historians to undertake historical research. Activities include visiting archives and historical sites, and travel to academic conferences. These grants are available to members of the Royal Historical Society who are not postgraduate students or early career researchers (within 5 years of completing a PhD). Next closing date: Friday 5 September.

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Applicants for these Royal Historical Society grants must be members of the Society. To find out how to become a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member, please see our Join Us page.

Details of current holders of Royal Historical Society Fellowships and Grants are available here.

All enquiries about Research Funding should be sent to the Society’s Membership and Grants Officer at: membership@royalhistsoc.org.

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Video and audio recordings of the Society’s 2025 Prothero Lecture, with Professor Peter Gatrell FBA, are now available. This year’s lecture — ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’ — took place on 2 July, in person and online.

Watch the video of the lecture

Listen to the lecture

 

 

Peter’s lecture drew on his recent research in the archives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. The archive contains the letters and petitions that refugees sent to the UNHCR in the post-1945 era, and provides the historian with rare insights of how refugees presented their situation and the responses they received. The numerous case files preserved by the UNHCR disclose the hopes, aspirations and rights claims of displaced people from many different parts of the world, whether or not they were recognised under international refugee law.

Peter Gatrell FBA is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include: The Unsettling of Europe: the Great Migration, 1945 to the Present (2019) and the co-authored Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom (2025), which draws on the rich resources of the UNHCR archives to present the personal experiences of mass displacement.

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Forthcoming public lectures with the Royal Historical Society

The Society’s lecture programme continues in September / October with the following three events:

• Friday 12 September 2025: Professor Yasmin Khan (Oxford), ‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’ (Mary Ward House, London and online)
• Wednesday 17 September 2025: Professor Matthew J. Smith (UCL), ‘Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories’, part of the Society’s visit to historians at the University of Aberdeen
• Wednesday 22 October 2025: Professor Tim Grady (Chester), ‘Unravelling the Tapestry of Death: Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars’, part of the Society’s visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich

Further details of each of these lectures will be released shortly.

 

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, for early career articles and first books written by early career historians. This year’s winners were announced at the Society’s annual Prothero Lecture which took place on 2 July and was attended by all four of this year’s recipients.

The two winners for each category are as follows:

Early Career Article Prize

• William Jones, “You are going to be my Bettman”: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps’, published in The Journal of Holocaust Research (2024)
• Michaela Kalcher, ‘The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024)

The Society’s Early Career Article Prize is awarded for an article published in 2024 by an early career historian who is either studying for a doctorate or is within three years of completing a PhD at a university in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Both winners receive a prize of £250.

First Book Prize

• Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)

The Society’s First Book Prize is awarded for a first history monograph, published in 2024, written by a PhD graduate of a university in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Both winners receive a prize of £1,000.

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This year’s prizes invited eligible authors to submit an article or monograph for consideration. More than 65 titles were submitted for each category.

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In their citation for Michaela Kalcher’s article, ‘The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine’, this year’s judges praised:

A beautifully written, psychologically rich analysis of trauma, identity, and diary writing. Combining microhistory with theoretical depth, this compelling article will likely become a key part of the historiography of the French Revolution on account of its provocations and highly intelligent construction.

Commenting on William Jones’s article, ‘“You are going to be my Bettman”’, the judges commended:

A groundbreaking and sensitive study of sexual violence during the Holocaust. This is an article that balances theoretical nuance with survivor testimony, offering a new conceptual framework that is both meaningful and analytically sharp. In the extensive historiography of the Holocaust, William Jones has something new and important to say.

In their citation for Laura Flannigan’s monograph, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, the judges congratulated:

An impressive, conceptually adept and ambitiously argued book. This is a study grounded in extraordinarily deep archival research on a previously neglected judicial court that was established in the late fifteenth century. The rich quantitative data yields intriguing vignettes that give wonderful colour to institutional history. Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth is clearly written and structured, as well as being cleverly and convincingly argued.

In their citation for Jules Skotnes-Brown’s book, Segregated Species, the panel praised: 

A fascinating, original, highly engaging, conceptually smart and extremely well-written interdisciplinary study that combines the history of science with its much wider social, political and racial context. This rich book is impressively researched, nimble in its analysis, successfully experimental at times in its approach and superbly written.

Full citations for our two early career article prizes are available here; those for the winners of this year’s book prize are available here.

Our congratulations to the four winners in 2025, and the twelve additional authors whose work was shortlisted for this year’s early career article and first book prizes.

 

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IMAGE: left to right: William Ross Jones, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Laura Flannigan, Lucy Noakes (President of the Royal Historical Society), and Michaela Kalcher, 2 July 2025

 

On 2 July, we were delighted to host Professor Peter Gatrell FBA to deliver this year’s Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture: ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’.

Peter’s lecture — held at Mary Ward House, London, and online — drew on his recent research in the archives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. The archive contains the letters and petitions that refugees sent to the UNHCR in the post-1945 era, and provides the historian with rare insights of how refugees presented their situation and the responses they received. The numerous case files preserved by the UNHCR disclose the hopes, aspirations and rights claims of displaced people from many different parts of the world, whether or not they were recognised under international refugee law.

As Peter argued in this lecture, to consider refugees’ encounters with refugee-creating, refugee-hosting, and refugee-deterring states – and with the organisations charged with their protection and assistance – offers new approaches to refugee history and the writing of refugees into modern global history.

Our great thanks to Peter for his lecture and to all those who attended in person and online. A video and audio recording of the 2025 RHS Prothero Lecture will be available shortly.

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Peter Gatrell FBA is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include: The Unsettling of Europe: the Great Migration, 1945 to the Present (2019) and the co-authored Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom (2025), which draws on the rich resources of the UNHCR archives to present the personal experiences of mass displacement.

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Established in 1969, Royal Historical Society’s Prothero Lecture – which is named for the historian and former RHS President, George W. Prothero (1848-1924) – has been given annually since that date. Those invited to give the lecture are leading historians whose research has shaped how we think about the past. 

Prothero lecturers over the past five decades include, among many others, Samuel H. Beer, Joanna Bourke, Linda Colley, Stefan Collini, Natalie Zemon Davis, Olwen Hufton, Sujit Sivasundaram, Quentin Skinner, Brenda E. Stevenson, and Keith Thomas. Many of these lectures, subsequently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, have been opportunities for leading scholars to reflect on their work and careers in the round.

 

In August, the Society publishes the next title in its New Historical Perspective book series: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey.

A study of reservoir planning and construction, Waterscapes is an important and novel contribution to environmental and urban history, and histories of the English and Welsh countryside.

 

 

The building of reservoirs in England and Wales was key to urban growth across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with the management of waterworks projects closely tied to the social and economic fortunes of rural areas, as well as the treatment of urban populations.

Drawing on methods from environmental history, cultural history and historical geography, this book explores the multiple and long-term impacts of reservoir construction and management in rural England and Wales. It examines how reservoirs transformed the rural environment, the management of the urban-rural hinterland, the development of cultural landscapes, the expansion of novel leisure activities, and the social impact on local communities.

Incorporating case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir, among others, Waterscapes‘ comparative approach highlights commonalities and differences in waterworks management across the country. It transforms our understanding of the national water industry, contemporary attitudes to the environment, and the identities – civic, gender and professional – that were intertwined with these waterscapes.

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NHP titles, published and forthcoming, in 2025

 

• Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle. The Shadow of a Young Woman, by Rachel E. Johnson (March 2025)
• Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, by Hannah Jeans (April 2025)
• Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, by Gareth Roddy (October 2025)
• Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes (November 2025)

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Andrew McTominey’s Waterscapes is the 23rd title in the Society’s New Historical Perspective book series for early career historians. As for all titles in the series, Waterscapes is published Open Access online, and free to access by all, as well as in paperback print.

 

Nominations are now invited from Fellows of the Royal Historical Society to stand for election to the Society’s governing Council. The Society seeks to elect three new Council members (trustees) in 2025, to replace serving Council members. Newly elected Councillors will take up their roles from December 2025.

Closing date for nominations: Monday 11 August 2025.

The work of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) is governed by its Council, which comprises ‘Officers’ (Trustees with a specific remit) and ‘Councillors’ (Trustees without portfolio).

Trustees of the Society play a vital role in working on behalf of our fellows, members and the greater historian community in establishing our mission, vision and strategy, as well as considering crucial governance matters that ensure the ongoing sustainability of our charitable work.

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The newly-elected Councillors will perform a full and active role in the Society’s governance and its work to champion and support historians of all kinds, the historical profession, and the practice of history.

This is an important time for the Society as it looks to launch its new three-year strategy, 2026-28, under the leadership of its President, Professor Lucy Noakes, and supported by the Society’s professional office based at University College London.

In accordance with By-law XXIV, Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are invited to nominate current Fellows, willing to serve as Councillors for a term of four years that commences in December 2025.

Please see the Society’s website for the institutional affiliations and subject expertise of current Members of Council.

The Society desires that the membership of its Council be fully representative of the community of historians in the United Kingdom.

Nominations must be supported by one Proposer and four Seconders, who are current Ordinary, Retired or Emeritus Fellows of the Society. 

The call for nominations runs to Monday 11 August with voting due to open in the week commencing 18 August. Voting by Fellows will close in the week commencing 22 September, with results announced in October.

For more on the role of an RHS Councillor, and how to submit a nomination, please see here.

Submission of nominations is via the Society’s online applications platform, here.

 

This year the Society publishes three new volumes in its Camden series of scholarly editions of primary sources. The first two volumes are published in June and August and available online and in print from Cambridge University Press.

NEW, VOLUME 69: The Papers of Admiral George Grey, edited by Michael Taylor (June 2025)

The Papers of Admiral George Grey presents the memoir, journal, and correspondence of George Grey, son of the Whig prime minister Earl Grey.

The volume documents the Grey family’s experience of the Whig ministry of 1830–1834, and George Grey’s own naval career which took him from the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence, to a decisive survey of the Falkland Islands, and then to the capital cities of South America during their pivotal early decades of independence

In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the political, diplomatic, naval, and imperial histories of the early and mid-nineteenth century.

The Papers of Admiral George Grey is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (from June 2025). Due to a subvention from the Society, this volume will be available fully open access.

 

FORTHCOMING, VOLUME 70: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler (August 2025)

This volume presents the surviving holograph correspondence of Margaret Tudor, queen of Scots (1489–1541) as a stand-alone edition for the first time.

The 111 holograph letters (written in Margaret’s own hand) and 4 ‘hybrid’ letters (written by a scribe, with a postscript or subsection by Margaret herself) 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 the challenges she faced in negotiating her dual identity as queen of Scots and an English princess, and her important role in Anglo-Scots politics and diplomacy in the early sixteenth century.

The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), is published online and in print by Cambridge University Press (from August 2025).

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The third and final Camden volume published in 2025 — A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung — is published in November.

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Recent volumes in the Camden series

Recent volumes in the series include:

The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640-1649, edited by Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and Ann Hughes (November 2024).

• Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure amongst the opposition to Charles I, a religious radical and intellectual who emerged as a successful popular leader in the early months of the English Civil War. This volume publishes the richly detailed household accounts kept for Brooke and his widow, Katherine, on an annual basis between 1640 and 1649.

Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908–1912. An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford, edited by David Hayton (July 2024).

• Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin, wrote regularly to his family in Australia from 1908 until he left university in 1912. Leeper’s letters, in Balliol College archives and the State Library of Victoria, record his experiences at Balliol, among a ‘golden generation’ decimated by the First World War, and on his extensive travels in Europe. They provide a vivid picture of a continent on the eve of war, written by someone whose background afforded a degree of objectivity.

The Last Days of English Tangier. The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–1683, edited by John Childs (November 2023).

• Governor Percy Kirke’s Out-Letter Book, here transcribed verbatim and annotated, covers the terminal decline of English Tangier, ending just before the arrival of Lord Dartmouth’s expedition charged with demolishing the town and evacuating all personnel. In 152 official letters, Kirke’s correspondence traces the decay of both the town’s military fabric and the soldiers’ morale and effectiveness, and the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory modus vivendi with the leaders of the besieging Moroccan armed forces.

La Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre, and Other Works by Jehan Creton, edited and translated by Lorna A. Finlay (June 2023).

• Jehan Creton accompanied Richard II on his expedition to Ireland in 1399 and witnessed his capture by Henry Lancaster, who usurped the throne to reign as Henry IV. Creton’s account is of crucial importance for historians of the period, as he contradicts the official version of events in the Parliamentary Roll. This a completely new translation of the work, correcting the previous edition dating from 1824. This new Camden edition also includes Creton’s other known writings, the two epistles and four ballades.

Introductions to these and other recent Camden volumes are available from their editors via the Society’s blog.

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About the Camden series

The Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is one of the most prestigious and important collections of primary source material relating to British History, including the British empire and Britons’ influence overseas.

The Society (and its predecessor, the Camden Society) has since 1838 published scholarly editions of sources—making important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. Each volume is edited by specialist historians who provide an expert introduction and commentary.

The complete Camden Series now comprises over 385 volumes of primary source material, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain. The full series is available via Cambridge Journals Online, providing an extraordinarily rich conspectus of source material for British history as well as insights into the development of historical scholarship in the English speaking world.

Full online access to all Camden Series titles is available to all Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society as part of the Society’s Member Benefits.

The Camden Series is edited by Dr Richard Gaunt (University of Nottingham) and Professor Siobhan Talbott (Keele University).

Richard is Associate Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, with expertise in the political and electoral history of late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. Siobhan is Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, with research expertise in the economic and social history of Britain and the Atlantic World. Both have extensive experience of preparing and publishing scholarly editions of primary texts.

Richard and Siobhan welcome submissions for future Camden volumes. If you have a proposal for a Camden Society volume, please complete and submit the Camden Series Proposal Form and send your completed proposal to the Editors: camden.editors@royalhistsoc.org.

 

 

 

 

 

The latest volume of the Society’s Camden series makes available The Papers of Admiral George Grey. Edited by Michael Taylor, this new volume brings together the memoir, journal, and correspondence of the naval officer George Grey (1809-1891), son of the Whig prime minister Earl Grey.

The volume documents the Grey family’s experience of the Whig ministry of 1830–1834, and George Grey’s own naval career which took him from the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence, to a decisive survey of the Falkland Islands, and then to the capital cities of South America during their pivotal early decades of independence.

In doing so, Michael’s volume sheds new light on the political, diplomatic, naval, and imperial histories of the early and mid-nineteenth century. To accompany publication, Michael has also written on George Grey and his work to collect the papers for the Society’s blog.

The full text of The Papers of Admiral George Grey is now available Open Access via Cambridge University Press, following a subvention by the Royal Historical Society.

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The Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is one of the most prestigious and important collections of primary source material relating to British history, including the British empire and Britons’ influence overseas.

The Series makes important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. Each volume is edited by a specialist historian who provides an expert introduction and commentary. The complete Camden Series now comprises over 380 volumes of primary source material, published by Cambridge University Press, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain.

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In 2025, the Society will publish three new Camden volumes.

Forthcoming titles are: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler, which will appear in August 2025 and A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung (November).

 

Eight monographs and eight journal articles have been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Historical Society First Book and Early Career Article prizes.

The shortlists follow an open call for eligible books and articles, published in 2024. Two winners will be announced, in July, for each prize.

Winners of the First Book Prize will each receive £1000 while those for the Early Career Article prize receive £250. Our congratulations to all sixteen authors whose work has been shortlisted in 2025.

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The eight monographs shortlisted for the First Book Prize are:

• Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press)
• Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press)
• Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press)
• The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan)
• Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press)
• Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press)
• Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)

Further details of each monograph are available here.

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The eight journal articles shortlisted for the Early Career Article Prize are:

• Beth Bhargava, ‘The National Front and Environmental Politics, 1967–90’, Modern British History
• James Burns, ‘The Bandit, the Holy Man, and the Slave in the Early Medieval West’, Journal of Late Antiquity
• Katherine Burns, ‘‘She died from grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements’, Slavery & Abolition
• Aisha Djelid, “The master whished to reproduce”: Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808–1861′, American Nineteenth Century History
• William Jones, “You are going to be my Bettman”: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipel in Nazi Concentration Camps’, The Journal of Holocaust Research
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