Alum JC Niala features in new BBC Ideas Film

The astonishing story of India’s arrival into international cricket.

Everything I Learned About Rewilding, I Learned from Dolly Parton

Gerrard Winstanley and a small group of people went to St George’s Hill in Surrey in the spring of 1694 and began to dig.

Gerrard Winstanley and a small group of people went to St George’s Hill in Surrey in the spring of 1694 and began to dig.

There is an increasing assertion within the heritage sector that museums holding ethnographic collections should position themselves as spaces of care. Yet the concept of “care” in this context is amb...

High temperatures are leading farmers to cut out chemicals and intensive ploughing to improve soil quality so it retains water

Applications are now invited for the Society's annual Martin Lynn Scholarship in African history. The Scholarship supports graduate students undertake doctoral research in Africa during the academic y...

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uni...

On Thursday 16 April 2026, the Royal Historical Society joins with The National Archives, Institute ofHistorical Research and University of Sheffield Library to co-host the this year’s History and Arc...

Psychologists at Cardiff University and King’s College London compared children given dolls with those given video games

Recording of humpback whale from 1949 could also provide new understanding of how the huge animals communicate