We are pleased to announce that the Society’s next three public events take place at locations across the UK.
Booking is now open for in-person attendance at our forthcoming lectures:
‘The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England’, with Professor Sasha Handley (University of Manchester) on Friday 1 May. Sasha’s lecture is part of the Society’s visit to the University of Warwick.
Booking for in-person and online attendance is now available.
‘Black/Beautiful: Meanings of Blackness in a Biblical Verse’, with Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL) at 6pm on Wednesday 13 May. Miri’s lecture is part of the Society’s visit to historians at Aberystwyth University and the National Library of Wales. Booking for in-person attendance is now available.
Lectures are open to all and we welcome especially Fellows and Members of the Society from the region. Both events will be followed by a reception and chance to meet the Society’s President, Professor Lucy Noakes, and members of the RHS Council.
On 16 April, the Society will be in Sheffield for its annual day conference, ‘History and Archives in Practice’, which is co-hosted with The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research. HAP26 is organised with a fourth partner, the University Sheffield Library.
HAP26 takes as its theme ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’. This event is now fully booked.
Events at Warwick, Aberystwyth and Sheffield are part of the Society’s programme — as set out in its Strategy, 2026-28 — to ‘extend the activities the Society hosts beyond its London base, to ensure we better reflect and engage with the Society’s UK and international membership.’
Later this year, Society lectures will take place in Glasgow and Bristol. Recent events (2025-26) include public lectures in Penryn, Cornwall, Aberdeen, Ipswich and Sheffield.
IMAGE HEADER: Aberystwyth from Constitution Hill, postcard, c. 1910