The Royal Historical Society runs a varied programme of events throughout the year, including our own prestigious lectures, and twice-yearly symposia hosted by history departments around Britain.
The full programme for 2020 is available here. Please keep checking for updates as we move some of our events online.
Next Events
Friday 18 September
Professor Simon Ditchfield
“Baroque around the clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history”
RHS Virtual Lecture – Online via Zoom. Registration Required.
Event Podcast and Video Archive
The media archive enables you to access podcasts and videos of our lectures and other Society events.
External Events
We also host listings for a wide range of external events and activities on behalf of the historical community including conferences, symposia, seminars, and lectures, as well as Calls for Papers, and Prize deadlines. Submit your notice using the link below or use the page menu to search and browse the wide range of upcoming events and other notices of interest to historians.
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Please note: listing on this noticeboard is not an indication of the Royal Historical Society’s support for an event, and we remind organisers of the recommendations in our 2018 reports on Race, Ethnicity and Equality and Gender Equality: events in the discipline should be diverse and inclusive.
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16 September - 17 March 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Gresham College Lecture Series: Great Tudor and Stuart Houses |
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28 September - 29 September 9:45 am - 3:45 pm |
The RAF in a World Transformed, 1945–49 |
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12 October 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
Jack's Story: Reflections of an Ex-POW on becoming a mental nurse |
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16 October All day |
IHR Partnership Seminars - deadline 16 October 2020 |
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16 October 10:00 am |
Downing Street to Your Street - deadline 30 September 2020 |
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21 October 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm |
The Fire Courts: Successfully Delivering Justice in a Time of Plague and Fire |
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22 October 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm |
Teaching Histories of Race in America to UK Undergraduates: A Review Panel Discussion |
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24 October 11:00 am - 4:00 pm |
The Anglo-Sikh Wars |
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7 November 10:00 am - 6:00 pm |
Remembering the Parish |
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14 November 10:00 am - 5:00 pm |
The Bubble and the Bubble Act |