The Society's autumn lecture programme offers lectures by six leading historians working in British, European and world history. The autumn lecture programme begins on Friday 25 September and runs to ...

On Friday 25 September the Society hosted the latest lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University) who spoke on: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of...

Memory, Nostalgia, and Democratic Resilience in Contemporary Britain

Exclusive: Friends of the Earth finds greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

Teaching the First World War for the Twenty-First Century – Pedagogies in Dialogue; Guest editors: Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan R. Grayzel and Catriona Pennell. Volume 17, Issue 1-2 of First World War Studies

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

Editorial: Writers do not only document the horror of conflict; they speak to a future that must exist beyond it

At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a ...

Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation

Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...

Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s

At national parks, visitors will be confronted with changes enacted after Trump’s order to remove or replace narratives that “disparage” Americans.

Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR

Exclusive: Time travel movie Rose of Nevada heralded as significant moment for Cornish film-making as it gets first UK screening in Newlyn

‘US soldiers would look for “suspected terrorists” in Iraqi homes and usually find nothing. This could be my grandma’s living room – it shows that insane violence can continue amid normal life’

As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead

War anniversaries are important milestones that enable certain understandings of the violent past to be naturalized in the present. This article is the first qualitative analysis of British press c...

Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures