Events

The Royal Historical Society runs a varied programme of events, including lectures panel discussions, conferences and training workshops. Below you’ll find details of our next events. We also make available video and audio recordings of many previous events. A selection of our events are reserved for Fellows and Members of the Society.

In addition, the Society provides a listing of history-focused events across the UK. Regular updates of new events are emailed to Fellows and Members of the Society.


Royal Historical Society Events Programme: 2024


Forthcoming Events, September and October 2024

 

6pm BST, Friday 13 September 2024, In Person and Online
‘Cannibals, Curiosities or Catholics? Indigenous peoples in early seventeenth-century France’
Speaker: Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock (University of Sheffield)
Booking for in person and online attendance for this lecture is now available.

 


6pm BST, Wednesday 18 September 2024, Online
‘Doing History in Public’: the Broadcast Media
With Andrew Smith (QMUL), Olwen Purdue (Queen’s Belfast) and Cait Beaumont (London South Bank).
Booking to attend this consultative conversation is now available. Conversations are reserved for Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society with experience of the subject area under discussion.

 


2pm BST, Wednesday 23 October 2024, Online
‘Histories of the British Political Left
Panel: Clare Griffiths (Cardiff, RHS Vice President), Laura Beers (American University), Andrew Thorpe (Leeds), Colm Murphy (QMUL), and Lyndsey Jenkins (Oxford)
Booking for online attendance for this event is now available.

 


Recent RHS Events: June to July 2024

These and previous RHS Lectures and events are available to watch or listen to again via the RHS Events Archive