RHS Events Programme, 2021

Friday 5 February 2021 at 6.00 pm

Dr Katrina Navickas
‘The Contested Right of Public Meeting in England from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts’
Virtual lecture


Friday 7 May 2021 at 6.00 pm

Professor Catherine Holmes
‘The Making and Breaking of Kinetic Empire: Mobility, Communication and Political Change in the Eastern Mediterranean, c.950-1100 C.E.’  
Virtual lecture


Friday 2 July 2021 at 6.00 pm

The Prothero Lecture: Professor Robert Frost
‘The Roads Not Taken: Liberty, Sovereignty and the Idea of the Republic in Poland-Lithuania and the British Isles, 1550-1660’
Virtual lecture


Wednesday 21 July 2021 at 2.00 pm

RHS Online Workshop for Early Career Historians

‘Getting Published: a Guide to First Articles and Journal Publishing’
Virtual training event


Friday 23 July 2021 at 5.00 pm

Royal Historical Society Awards, 2021

Ceremony for Publication, Fellowship and Teaching Awards — with the IHR
Virtual awards ceremony


Friday 17 September 2021, 10.00 am to 13.30 pm

The Gerald Aylmer Seminar in conjunction with the IHR and TNA

‘New Ways to Work: Future Directions in Archival and Historical Practice’
Virtual conference


Friday 24 September 2021 at 5.30 pm

Dr Jonathan Saha
‘Accumulations and Cascades: On the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism’
Virtual lecture


Tuesday 2 November 2021 at 6.00 pm

The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of History:
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova

‘Portraits, Biographies and Public History’
In association with Gresham College, London. At the Museum of London


Friday 26 November 2021 at 6.00 pm

RHS Presidential Address: Professor Emma Griffin
‘Writing about Life Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain’
Virtual lecture preceded by the Society’s AGM


Tuesday 7 December 2021 at 2.00 pm

RHS Online Workshop for Early Career Historians

‘Creating Public History: a Guide to Co-production and Community Engagement Projects’
Virtual training event