New events will be added to this programme as the year progresses; please check back for updates which will also be announced via social media.
Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 5.30 pm
Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU Munich)
‘Raise, Reuse, Recycle: Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’
Joint RHS-GHIL Lecture, at the German Historical Institute London and Online
Friday 7 February 2025 at 6.30 pm
Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University)
‘Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World’
RHS Lecture, Mary Ward House, London, and Online
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
‘Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance’, History and Archives in Practice, 2025
Annual event in association with The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research
Friday 2 May 2025 at 6.30 pm
Mark Stoyle (University of Southampton)
‘Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West’
RHS Lecture, Mary Ward House, London, and Online
Wednesday 2 July 2025 at 6.30 pm
The RHS Prothero Lecture: Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)
‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’
At Mary Ward House, London, and Online
followed by the Society’s Summer Party, 2025
Friday 12 September 2025 at 6.30 pm
Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford)
‘‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial way of Warfare’
RHS Lecture, at Mary Ward House, London, and Online
Tuesday 4 November 2025 at 5.30 pm
The RHS Public History Lecture: Daniel Finkelstein
‘The Trial of David Cohen. Family Friend. Jewish Leader. Nazi Collaborator?’
In association with Gresham College, London
Friday 21 November 2025 at 6.00pm
RHS Anniversary Lecture: Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
‘The Lived Experiences of Non-Elite Women in Early Modern Ireland’
Preceded by the Society’s Anniversary Meeting (AGM)
Mary Ward House, London, and Online