This week the Society’s President, Professor Lucy Noakes, along with Councillors Dr Cath Feely and Dr Melissa Calaresu, visited historians at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter, at Penryn.

The visit included meetings with historians working in the department and wider university, students and researchers, university managers, community history groups and partners with whom the department works, and members of the Society resident in west Cornwall.

The visit included a public event, on 21 May, ‘Cultural Memory and the Two World Wars’, with Lucy and Catriona Pennell, Professor of Modern History and Memory Studies in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall, at the University of Exeter, Penryn. Our thanks to Catriona as the visit’s host and all who attended the discussion sessions and public event.

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You can read more about the Society’s recent two-day visit to staff and students at the University Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall (HaSS Cornwall) here: ‘Royal Historical Society praise for University’s Cornwall historians’ (published by the University of Exeter).

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UK visits to historians are a regular feature of the Society’s annual event’s programme. Forthcoming visits are to the University of Aberdeen (17 and 18 September) and the University of Suffolk at Ipswich (21 October), to meet with academic historians, students, public history groups, and Society members from the area.

We are delighted to announce that the guest lecture at Aberdeen (Wednesday 17 September) will be given by Professor Matthew J. Smith (UCL and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery). Further details of these forthcoming visits will be released shortly.