The Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize 2025 recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of history monographs published in 2024. This year's shortlist of eight titles is now available and follows an open call for early career historians to submit a first sole-authored monograph, published last year, for consideration. Two final winners of the 2025 prize will be chosen, with the announcement to take place in July. Also now available: the shortlist of the Society's Early Career Article Prize, 2025, for an article written by an early career historian within three years of completion of a PhD.

The Royal Historical Society's Early Career Article Prize 2025 recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of journal articles published in 2024. This year's shortlist of eight articles is now available and follows an open call for early career historians to submit a article or book chapter, published last year, for consideration. Two final winners of the 2025 prize will be chosen, with the announcement to take place in July. Also, available this week: the shortlist of the Society's First Book Prize, 2025, for a first scholarly monograph written by an early career historian.

In April 2025, the Society's President Lucy Noakes published the following article in History Workshop. The article is part of an occasional HW series exploring the scale, form and implications of cuts to history departments and courses in UK higher education. In her contribution, Lucy provided a perspective from the Royal Historical Society, drawing on recent surveys of RHS members on the impact of cuts for staff and students, and the wider community. We are very grateful to History Workshop for the opportunity to reproduce Lucy's article in full on the RHS site