New Historical Perspectives

New Historical Perspectives (NHP) is the Society’s book series for early career scholars (within ten years of their doctorate), commissioned and edited by the Royal Historical Society, in association with University of London Press and the Institute of Historical Research.

What’s distinctive about New Historical Perspectives?

The NHP series provides extensive support and feedback for authors, many of whom are writing their first monograph having recently completed a History PhD.

Each author in the series receives substantial reports from peer reviewers and series editors; is assigned a contact and ‘mentor’ from the editorial board; and takes part in an Author Workshop to discuss a near complete book with invited specialists. Author Workshops are opportunities to discuss and develop a manuscript with expert readers before submission to the publisher.

Second, all NHP titles are published as free Open Access (OA) editions, eBooks, and in hard and paperback formats by University of London Press. Digital editions of each book increase discoverability and readership. The cost of publishing NHP volumes as Open Access is covered by the series partners, not the author or an author’s academic institution.

New and forthcoming titles in the series

Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750-2020 (November 2023), edited by Hannah Parker and Josh Doble constitutes a timely intervention into contemporary debates on emotions, gender, race and power. This collection considers how emotional expectations are established as gendered, racialised and class-based notions.

The volume explores the ways these expectations have been generated, stratified and maintained by institutions, societies, media and those with access to power.

Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010, by Jon Winder (published in July 2024) is the first empirically grounded historical account of the modern playground, drawing on the archival materials of social reformers, park superintendents, equipment manufacturers and architects in Britain and beyond to chart the playground’s journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity.

Children’s playgrounds are commonly understood as the obvious place for children to play: safe, natural and out of the way. But these expectations hide a convoluted and overlooked history of children’s place in public space

Mapping the State. English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act, by Martin Spychal (September 2024), rethinks the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform and the reconstruction of England’s electoral map by the 1831–32 boundary commission underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation.

Drawing from a significant new archival discovery—the working papers of the boundary commission—Mapping the State reassesses why and how the 1832 Reform Act passed, and its significance to the expansion of the modern British state (Published online and in print, Summer 2024).

Recent titles in the Series

Charlotte Berry, The Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430-1540 (February 2022)
Sarah Fox, Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England (April 2022)
Leo Shipp, The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813 (September 2022)
Stephen Mullen, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838 (November 2022)
Matthew Gerth, Anti-Communism in Britain During the Cold War. A Very British Witch Hunt (April 2023)

Edited collections in the Series

In addition to monographs, the series also publishes edited collections. NHP collections are collaborations between historians: edited and including chapters by early career scholars, along with essays from more senior historians.

Antonia Fitzpatrick and John Sabapathy eds., Individuals, Institutions and Medieval Scholasticism (May 2020)
Fiona McCall ed., Church and People in Interregnum Britain (August 2021)
Heidi Egginton and Zoe Thomas eds., Precarious Professionals. Gender, Identity and Social Change in Modern Britain (September 2021)
Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Lyndsey Jenkins eds., The Politics of Women’s Suffrage. Local, National and international Perspectives (November 2021)
Peter Collinge and Louise Falcini eds., Providing for the Poor. The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834 (August 2022)

New Historical Perspectives began publishing in late 2019 and a full listing of titles in the series is available from the University of London Press and via JSTOR Open Access Books.

Submitting a proposal

The Series Editors and Editorial Board welcome proposals for new NHP titles via the NHP book proposal form. Proposals may include full-size monographs and edited collections of up to 100,000 words. The NHP series also publishes shorter monographs (50-60,000 words) where this is an appropriate length for a topic. Completed proposal forms should be submitted to the University of London Press Publisher, Dr Emma Gallon: emma.gallon@sas.ac.uk.

Many NHP authors are publishing their first book, and editorial mentoring and Author Workshops are designed to help with the transition from PhD to monograph. Equally, the Series Editors welcome proposals for second books from authors within 10 years of completing their doctorates.

Enquiries about the series

For general enquiries, please email Dr Emma Gallon, Publisher, at University of London Press: emma.gallon@sas.ac.uk.

If you wish to contact the Series’ co-editors directly, please email Professor Elizabeth Hurren (eh140@leicester.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Longair (slongair@lincoln.ac.uk).

New members of the RHS Council, from November 2023

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the appointment and election of four new members to its governing Council. All four will take up their posts following the Society’s AGM held on 24 November 2023. Their appointments follow open calls, earlier this year, for the new post of Vice President and that of Treasurer; and the recent election of two new Councillors from the Society’s Fellowship.

As Treasurer, Dr John Law will replace Professor Jon Stobart, who steps down in November after his four-year term. As Councillors Professor Mark Knights and Professor Iftikhar Malik replace Professor Barbara Bombi and Professor Thomas Otte who also end their four-year terms in November. From November, Barbara Bombi takes on the post of RHS Secretary for Research and Chair of its Research Policy Committee, replacing Professor Jonathan Morris who steps down after five years in this role.

Professor Clare Griffiths (Cardiff University), Vice President of the Royal Historical Society

Clare Griffiths is Head of History and Professor of Modern History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. Prior to taking up her current position in Cardiff, she taught at the University of Sheffield, Wadham College, Oxford, and the University of Reading, and she has held visiting fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Museum of English Rural Life.

Clare’s research focuses on the political and cultural history of Britain in the twentieth century, with a particular interest in the history of the countryside, agriculture and landscape. She is the author of Labour and the Countryside: the Politics of Rural Britain, 1918-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Class, Cultures and Politics (OUP 2011). Her published articles and essays include work on political debates in Britain during the Second World War, the commemoration and historical memory of early nineteenth-century radicalism, and many aspects of British farming and rural life. She has also written extensively for the Times Literary Supplement, particularly on visual art.

Clare was a member of the Society’s Council from 2018 to 2021, during which time she served on, and subsequently chaired the Research Support Committee.

Dr Michael John Law, Treasurer of the Royal Historical Society

John Law was, until his retirement, a Research Fellow in History at the University of Westminster. He joined the academic world later than is usual, completing his PhD when he was 54 years old. John’s work considers the experience of modernity in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of several academic books. His latest, A World Away, was published by McGill Queen’s University Press in 2022, and examines the impact of holiday package tours on the people of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. John was a council member and trustee at the University of Sussex from 2011 to 2017.

Prior to academia, John was a partner at PwC and an executive at IBM. In these roles, he provided consulting advice to the world’s largest financial institutions. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Professor Mark Knights (University of Warwick), RHS Councillor

Mark Knights is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on early modern political culture in Britain and its empire, and on the history of corruption.

Mark’s most recent publication is Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire 1600-1850 (OUP 2021). He is currently working on a cultural biography of a seventeenth-century merchant philosopher; a book charting the history of corruption in Britain and its empire from the 1620s to the 2020s; and the Oxford Handbook of the History of Corruption.

Mark is a member of the editorial boards of Boydell and Brewer’s ‘Eighteenth Century Studies’ series and of the journal Parliamentary History. He has held numerous posts in his department and University.

Professor Iftikhar H. Malik (Bath Spa University), RHS Councillor

Iftikhar H. Malik is Professor-Emeritus at Bath Spa University, where he taught history for 27 years, following his five-year fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Presently, a member the Common Room at Wolfson College in Oxford, his Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World: British Scholars, Sojourners and the Sleuths with Routledge came out in June 2021.

In November 2022, his The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian (Oxford University Press, 2020), received the UBL Award for the best non-fiction work in English in Pakistan.

Iftikhar’s other studies include Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11 (Anthem, 2016 & 2017); Crescent between Cross and Star: Muslims and the West after 9/11, (OUP, 2006); and Islam and Modernity: Muslims in Western Europe and the United States (Pluto, 2003).

Gladstone Book Prize

Mirror of Portraits of All Sovereigns in the World (Sejō kakkoku shaga teiō kagami), 1879, Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain

The Gladstone Book Prize was launched in 1998 following a founding donation from the Gladstone Memorial Trust on the centenary of William Gladstone’s death. The prize offers an annual award of £1,000 for a work of history on a topic not primarily related to British history that is the author’s first sole book publication. In 2015, the Linbury Trust made a generous donation of £12,500 in support of the Gladstone Prize.

Applications for the 2024 Gladstone Prize, from publishers, have now closed (31 December 2023). Please see below on the timetable for the 2024 Gladstone Prize and that for 2025 for which applications are invited from September 2024.

Gladstone Prize Winner, 2023

Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Keating whose book On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia (OUP, 2022) was announced as the 2023 winner on 6 July.

Judges’ citation:

Jennifer Keating’s On Arid Ground is a path-breaking study of the way empire and environment interacted in Central Asia through the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This book innovates on a number of fronts, not least by showing the importance of ecology and environment in forcing the Russian Empire to adapt its long-term geopolitical strategy. It significantly changes the way we think of Russian Empire-building and outlines a fascinating picture of land reclamation, settlement and commodity development, while often putting to the fore actors beyond the human, from sandstorms to termites.

Inspiring and important, it will be influential for historians working on other imperial contexts, and above all for our thinking about environment and human social and political organisation today.

Timetable for the Gladstone Prize, 2024

Submissions for the 2023 Prize open: 1 September 2023
Closing date for entries for the 2023 Prize: 31 December 2023
Shortlist for the 2023 Prize announced: May / June 2024
Winner of the 2023 Prize announced: July 2024

All enquiries about the Prize should be addressed to the RHS. Please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org.

Gladstone Book Prize, 2025

Submissions for the 2025 Prize, from publishers, will be accepted from 1 September 2024 prior to the closing date of 31 December 2024. Further details of the 2025 Gladstone Prize will be announced in due course. To be eligible for consideration for the prize, the nominated title must:

be its author’s first solely written history book;
be on any historical subject that is not primarily related to British or Irish history;
be an original and scholarly work of historical research by an author who received their doctoral degree from a British or Irish university;
have been published in English during the calendar year 2024 (for the 2025 award).

Only printed and e-books bearing a 2024 copyright date are eligible for consideration in the current round. Books issued by publishers in the final weeks of 2024, which bear a copyright date of 2025, will be eligible for nomination in the 2025 awards.

Books nominated for the Gladstone Prize may include those which focus on Atlantic World, British Imperial, and trans-national contexts for British and Irish history. However, books focused on all other aspects of British and Irish history should be entered for the Society’s Whitfield Book Prize. The Chair of the Gladstone Prize Committee will make the final decision as to the eligibility of each submitted volume. The Chairs of the Gladstone Prize Committee and the Whitfield Prize Committee will together decide which competition is most appropriate for any books falling between the criteria for each prize.

Submitting to the Gladstone Book Prize, 2025

Publishers are invited to nominate books. (Please note: authors cannot submit their own work.) However, we also ask that colleagues encourage early career historians, across the HE sector, to propose their work for submission by a publisher. This is especially encouraged for early career historians from under-represented groups.
The RHS welcomes eligible submissions from the widest possible range of publishers: this includes university presses, commercial publishers of all scales, and non-UK publishers when publishing the first scholarly work by a historian with a doctorate from a UK or Irish university
A maximum of 4 books may be submitted by any publisher. In selecting your nominations, publishers are asked to follow the Society’s recommendations in our 2018 reports on Race, Ethnicity & Equality and Gender Equality: books submitted should reflect the diversity of those working in the discipline and of their chosen areas of research.
To complete the submission per title, publishers are required submit one copy (non-returnable) of the eligible book by 31 December 2024. Books should be sent to the: Membership and Office Administrator, Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Should the book be short-listed, two further copies will be required.
Publishers are asked to ensure submissions comply with the eligibility requirements. Any questions may be sent to: administration@royalhistsoc.org, marked Gladstone Prize

A list of previous winners of the Gladstone Book Prize (1997-2023) is available here.

RHS History Today Prize Past Winners

2000
First prize Lucy Marten-Holden (University of East Anglia), ’A study into the siting and landscape context of early Norman castles in Suffolk’
Second prize Alison Rosenblitt (Wadham College, Oxford), ’Symmetry and asymmetry in Anglo-Saxon Art’
Third prize Jennifer Brook (University of Newcastle), ‘”I forgive you in advance”: Pasternak and the publication of Dr Zhivago’.

2001
First prize Jeanette Lucraft (University of Huddersfield), ‘Missing From History: A reinstatement of Katherine Swynford’s Identity’
Second prize Michael Finn (University of Liverpool), ‘Mythology of war: civilian perceptions of war in Liverpool,1914-1938′
Third prize Timothy Leon Grady (University of Keele), ‘Academic Anti-Semitism: the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen and the Jews 1929-1938’

2002
First Prize Paul Shirley (University College London), ‘Tek Force wid Force!’ Marronage, Resistance and Freedom Struggles in the Experience of North American Emigré Blacks in the Bahamas, 1783-1789’
Second Prize Antony Craig Lockley (University of Manchester), ’Propaganda and Intervention at Archangel, 1918-1919’
Third Prize Anna Chapman (University of East Anglia), ’Piety, Patronage and Politics: An Exploration of Fact and Fiction in the Early Legend of St. Edmund’

2003
Joint First Prize Sami Abouzahr (University College London), ‘The European Recovery Program, and American PolicyTowards Indochina, 1947-1950’ and Charmian Brownrigg (University of Central Lancashire), ’The Merchant Mariners of North Lancashire and Cumberland in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century’.
Special Mention Andrew Syk (University of Derby), ’The 46th Division on the Western Front’

2004
First Prize Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge), ‘Shukri Ghanem and the Ottoman Empire 1908-1914′
Highly Commended Thomas Neuhaus (University of Essex), ’’Sing me a swing song and let me dance’: The Swing Youth and cultural dissent in the Third Reich’
Proxime Accessit Sebastian Walsh (University of Durham), ‘Most trusty and beloved’: Friendship, trust and experience in the exercise of informal power within the early Elizabethan polity – the case of Sir NicholasThrockmorton’

2005
First Prize Anna Mason (Wadham College, Oxford), ‘The English Reformation and the Visual Arts reconsidered’
Highly Commended Matthew Greenhall (University of Durham), ‘From Cattle to Claret: Scottish economic influence in northeast England, 1660-1750’

2006
First Prize Edward Swift (University of Durham), ‘Furnishing God’s Holy House: John Cosin and Laudian Church Interiors in Durham’
Proxime accessit Matthew Neal (University of Cambridge), ‘The Fall of Walpole’ and James Williamson (UCL), ‘To what extent, if at all, did the Marshall Plan impose limits upon Post War Labour Government’s policies of nationalization and creation of a welfare state?’

2007
First Prize Morgan Daniels (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Scarcely seen or felt’. British Government andthe 1960s satire boom’
Highly Commended Liz Homans (University of Wales, Bangor), ‘The abolition of capital punishment in the 1960s’ and Dmitri Lietvin (Selwyn College, Cambridge), ‘The philosophy of John Sergeant and the response toEnglish Deism, 1690-1700’

2008
First Prize Catherine L. Martin (University of Greenwich), ‘The People’s Demobilization: a case study in politics,propaganda and popular will in 1945’
Highly Commended Katherine McMullen (University of Oxford), ‘Pulpit and Press: attributions of blame for prostitutionin the 1670s and 1680s’ and Robbie Maxwell (University of Edinburgh), ‘Analyse and assess the impact of George S Benson’s‘ Americanism’ between 1941 and 1964, particularly through the films of the National EducationProgram’

2009
First Prize Eleanor Betts (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Who Will Help? The Impact of the 1866 CholeraEpidemic on the Children of East London
Highly Commended Charles Cornish-Dale (University of Exeter), ‘Land, Power, Politics and Patronage: A Case Study of Orcof Abbotsbury’

2010
First Prize Alexander Baggallay (University of Edinburgh), ‘Myths of Mau Mau Expanded: The role of rehabilitation in detention camps during the state of emergency in Kenya, 1954-1960’
Highly Commended David Kenrick (University of Liverpool), ‘Identity and the Politics of Survival: White Rhodesia, 1965-1980’

2011
Richard Lowe-Lauri (University of Durham), ‘The decline of the Stamford bull-running, c. 1788-1840’

2012
Frederick Smith (University of Warwick), ‘’Discerning cheese from Chalke’: Louvainist Propagandaand recusant identity in 1560s England”

2013
Anna Field (Cardiff University), ‘Masculinity and Myth: the Highway-woman in Early Modern England, 1681-1800’

2014
Rebecca Pyne-Edwards Banks (University of Derby) ‘Cutting Through the Gordian Knot: The British Military Service Tribunals During the Great War’.

2015
Cora Salkovskis (University of Oxford) ‘Psychiatric photography and control in the ‘benevolent asylum’ of Holloway: the construction of image, identity and narrative in photographs of female patients in the late nineteenth-century asylum‘.

2016
Emma Marshall (University of Durham) ‘Women’s Domestic Medical Practice: Recipe Writing and Knowledge Networks in 17th Century England’.

2017
Abigail Greenall (University of Manchester) ‘Magical Materials and Emotion in the Early Modern East Anglian Household’.

2019
Ella Sbaraini (University of Cambridge) ‘In Praise of Older Women’.

Royal Historical Society Prize Winners, 2023

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its Gladstone and Whitfield book prizes, and the Alexander article prize, for 2023.

RHS Gladstone Prize, 2023

Awarded to a first book in the field of European or World History.

Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia

(Oxford University Press)

Judges’ citation

Jennifer Keating’s On Arid Ground is a path-breaking study of the way empire and environment interacted in Central Asia through the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This book innovates on a number of fronts, not least by showing the importance of ecology and environment in forcing the Russian Empire to adapt its long-term geopolitical strategy. It significantly changes the way we think of Russian Empire-building and outlines a fascinating picture of land reclamation, settlement and commodity development, while often putting to the fore actors beyond the human, from sandstorms to termites.

Inspiring and important, it will be influential for historians working on other imperial contexts, and above all for our thinking about environment and human social and political organisation today.

RHS Whitfield Prize, 2023

Awarded to a first book in the field of British or Irish History.

Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds. Trauma, Testimony & the Irish Civil War

(Irish Academic Press)

Judges’ citation

Síobhra Aiken’s Spiritual Wounds offers a fascinating approach to understanding testimonies of the Irish Civil War, revealing through a range of sources what has remained ‘hidden in plain sight’. It challenges the prevailing idea of an enduring silence about the conflict which has sought to forget in order to repair rather than to remember in order to bear witness and grieve.

Through works of autobiography, memoir and fiction in a variety of forms, Aiken explores the manner in which the terrible experiences of war were placed into the public domain by pro- and anti-Treaty men and women, and thus became part of the cultural milieu in the decades that followed.

The book shows how the code of silence around the Irish Civil War was culturally constructed, and it adopts and historicises the framework of ‘trauma’ for its study, offering a model for others to follow. Aiken’s afterword presents fascinating comments on the researcher’s own subjectivity, and the challenges of writing about topics which ‘defy straightforward empathic identification’. It is a powerful contribution to our understanding of the legacy of war, and of historical practice and the role of the historian.

RHS Alexander Prize 2023, joint winners

Awarded for an article by an early career historian writing, or within two years of completing, a History PhD.

**Jake Dyble, ‘General Average, Human Jettison, and the Status of Slaves in Early Modern Europe’, Historical Journal, 65 (2022), 1197-1220**

Judges’ citation

Jake Dyble tackles a major question regarding the history of the Transatlantic slave trade: how different was this trade to earlier types of enslavement? This is not only a problem for historians but a key issue in modern political debates—particularly with regard to restorative justice.

Dyble uses an ingenious method to uncover a clear answer to the conundrum. He uses legal cases regarding the jettison of cargo, including living animals or people, to determine that there was a significant shift in attitude towards the enslaved. The panel were impressed with the use of legal history but also the way in which the author was able to make a difficult technical topic comprehensible to non-specialists.

**Roseanna Webster, ‘Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain’, Past & Present (October 2022)**

Judges’ citation

Roseanna Webster’s work on Francoist Spain is a classic account of history from below. She focuses on female activists in new housing estates whose concerns were to gain the necessities of life, such as a regular supply of running water. Webster’s use of oral histories shows how the role of activist jarred with traditional gender roles, and how this caused the women themselves some unease.

Webster’s unusual choice of subject matter and her careful handling of her source material has produced a nuanced account of life under Franco, which focuses not on soldiers or dissidents but on ordinary women and their ambivalence about their new roles.

RHS Presidential Lecture — ‘European Exploration, Empires, and the Making of the Modern World’

‘European Exploration, Empires, and the Making of the Modern World’

Emma Griffin

RHS 2023 Presidential Lecture

held on 24 November 2023

at Mary Ward House, London, and online

Abstract

The British industrial revolution has long, and rightly, been regarded as a turning point in world history, and the question of why it all began in Britain has produced a large and lively literature.

In the past twenty years, our understanding has been considerably enhanced by the repositioning of events in eighteenth-century Britain within global history frameworks. Yet this has resulted in some unwieldy comparisons between Britain, a small island, on the one hand; and very large, continental land masses – India, China, and North America – on the other.

In this lecture, Emma Griffin suggests a far more meaningful comparative approach may be developed by turning to some of Britain’s nearest neighbours in continental Europe. By looking at European nations, similar in size, existing outside Britain’s empire, and indeed in some instances with imperial holdings and ambitions of their own, it is possible to shed new light on the complex and contested relationship between empire and industrialisation, and offer new answers as to why Britain industrialised first.

Emma Griffin is President of the Royal Historical Society, and Professor of British History and Head of School at Queen Mary University of London.

Listen to the Lecture:

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RHS Annual Newsletter, 2023

Our latest print Newsletter (November 2023) is available by clicking ‘Open’ or clicking on the cover. Copies of the November 2023 Newsletter may also be downloaded as a pdf. For the best experience, please view pdf downloads in Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 5 or above.

Copies of RHS Newsletters, 2010-2022

Published since 2010, copies of previous RHS Newsletters are available here.

Other ways to keep in touch

The Society also sends out a weekly News Circular to all Fellows and Members (this example dated 23 November 2023) informing them of current and forthcoming news and events, which are also featured on this website. You can also follow updates via RHS News and social media @RoyalHistSoc.

Publication of Trustees’ Annual Report and RHS Annual Newsletter

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the availability of its 2023 Annual Newsletter and the Trustees Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements, covering the activities of the Society between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023. Both were published in the week of the Society’s AGM, held at Mary Ward House, London, on Friday 24 November.

The Trustees Annual Report provides a review of the activities of the Society in its most recent full financial year, together with plans for future work by the Society, and the financial statements to 30 June 2023.

Print copies of the Society’s Annual Newsletter (dated November 2023) have now been sent to all Fellows and Members of the Society in the UK and overseas.

This year’s Newsletter includes the annual President’s Letter; articles on RHS Education and Research Policy from the Society’s newly appointed Secretaries for Education and Research Policy, Adam Budd and Barbara Bombi; a guide to the Society’s new Members Directory which will launch in early 2024; introductions to the research of this year’s RHS Centenary and Marshall Fellows; and a reflection on the work of our friend and colleague, the historian Arthur Burns (1963-2023).

Other ways to keep in touch: in addition to the Trustees Annual Report and Annual Newsletter, the Society sends out a weekly News Circular to all Fellows and Members (this example dated 23 November 2023) informing them of current and forthcoming news and events, which are also featured on this website. You can also follow updates via RHS News, social media @RoyalHistSoc, and the blog, Historical Transactions.

RHS Events Programme, 2021

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