The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to announce its lecturers and lecture programme for 2025. The Society will host seven main lectures in the coming year, including several co-presented with partners.
Details of the Society’s 2025 lecture programme are available here.
The Society begins 2025 with its annual lecture in global history, co-hosted with the German Historical Institute, London (GHIL). The event takes place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 21 January when Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU Munich) will present ‘Raise, Reuse, Recycle: Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’.
This is followed, at 6.30pm on Friday 7 February, with the first RHS Lecture of the year: ‘Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World’, with Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University).
These opening lectures take place at the GHIL and Mary Ward House, London, respectively, and online attendance is available for both. Booking is now open for these first two lectures via the links above.
New initiatives for the coming year include the RHS Anniversary Lecture, held in November, on or close to the anniversary of the Society’s foundation date (26 November 1868). Anniversary Lecturers are chosen by the Society’s President: the first lecturer in this new series is Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) who will be speak on ‘The Lived Experiences of Non-Elite Women in Early Modern Ireland’ on Friday 21 November 2025.
Other events in 2025 include the Society’s annual ‘History and Archives in Practice’ (HAP) day conference, organised jointly with The National Archives and Institute of Historical Research, University of London. This year’s event takes place at the IHR, on Wednesday 5 March, with the theme of ‘Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance’.
The programme, and booking details, for HAP25 will be released early in the new year. Further Society events will be announced from the start of 2025.
We look forward to welcoming you to one or more of the Society’s lectures in 2025, either in-person or online.
If you would like to revisit any of our lectures from 2024 — given by, among others, Clare Anderson, Levi Roach, Corinne Fowler, Julia Laite, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Janina Ramirez, and the Society’s President Lucy Noakes — please see our Events Archive which provides video and audio recordings. The Events Archive also includes recordings from the Society’s other training workshops and panel discussions held in 2024.
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