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.
Upcoming Events
Friday 5 February 2021 at 6.00 pm
Dr Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire)
‘The Contested Right of Public Meeting in England from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts’
Virtual lecture – full details soon.
Event Podcast and Video Archive
Watch and listen to previous RHS Lectures and other Society events in our online archive of podcasts and video recordings.
Recent Additions to the Archive:
- Professor Linda Colley RHS Prothero Lecture: What Happens when a Written Constitution is Printed? A History Across Boundaries.” Virtual Lecture: watch the recording online here.
- Professor Margot Finn Presidential Address: “Material Turns in British History IV. Erasures: Empire in India, Cancel Cultures and the Country House” (27 November 2020). Virtual Lecture: watch the lecture recording online here.
- Professor Simon Ditchfield RHS Lecture: “Baroque around the clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history” Virtual Lecture: watch the lecture recording online here.
External Event Listings and Noticeboard
We also host listings for a wide range of external events and activities on behalf of the historical community. This includes 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.
Members and Fellows receive a weekly email digest informing them of new opportunities.
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.
Would you like to promote your history event or activity on the Royal Historical Society noticeboard? If so please complete our listing form below.
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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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2 December - 19 May 3:00 pm |
Culture, Things, and Empire |
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11 January - 14 June 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Gender, Subjectivity, and "Everyday Health" in the Post-1945 World |
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20 January - 14 April 2:30 pm |
Friends of The Women's Library talks 2021 |
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20 January - 17 March 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm |
Modern British History Workshop |
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25 January - 22 February 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm |
British Library South Asia Seminar Series |
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27 January 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
From Engagement to Retreat? Historians and Digital Preservation, 1968-2003 |
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27 January 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
On 'Auschwitz': reflecting on the meaning of absolute death |
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4 February 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Numerals and Their Alternatives in the Middle East and Europe: A Reckoning |
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11 February 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
Pictures of nursing: Nurses and nursing on postcards 1890-1910 |