The SHS is delighted to re-open the Public History Prize, established in 2019 as a mark of gratitude to our outgoing chair Professor Pamela Cox. The prize is open to postgraduate or postdoctoral historians within a year of their viva. Applicants are required to demonstrate excellence in taking their research beyond the academy over the … Continued
Malcolm Chase speaks at a Kennington Chartist Project public meeting, 28 April 2018. Photo: Stefan Szczelkun The Social History Society are proud to be supporting the Society for the Study of Labour History’s Chartism Day, which returns in March 2022 after an enforced absence of two years. This year’s event is to be a memorial … Continued
We held our last annual conference online over two weeks in summer 2021. The conference centred on our eight thematic research strands, which range across time and space. It also featured a plenary panel on ‘Women and Work’ featuring contributions from Emma Griffin, Helen McCarthy and Jane Whittle. We recorded a selection of the presentations, … Continued
After two years of successful online events, we are delighted to be returning to Lancaster University for our first in person conference since the start of the pandemic. The conference will take place from 6-8 July 2022. The conference will be shorter than in pre-pandemic times and we are encouraging participants to attend the whole … Continued
The Social History Society is dismayed at the current plans for radical restructuring at Goldsmiths, University of London, which has put academics and administrative staff in the departments of English & Creative Writing and History at risk of compulsory redundancy. The History department at Goldsmiths is a dynamic and thriving centre of social history. Its … Continued
The Social History Society is proud to announce that the Joint BME Events and Activities scheme has re-opened for applications.
Our Book Prize has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2018. The prize recognises innovative scholarship in our discipline and the past winners are Sasha Handley, Hannah Barker, Khaled Fahmy and Lucy Bland. We are delighted to announce that the Social History Society Book Prize is now open for the fifth year. … Continued
We are delighted that Professor Catherine Hall has been awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Medal and Prize for 2021. Professor Hall is a long-time friend and Honorary Vice President of the Social History Society, whose work in the fields of class, gender and postcolonial history will be well known to members. The Leverhulme Medal and Prize … Continued
The Social History Society has regular prizes for its postgraduate members. In pre-COVID times, these take the form of prizes for the best paper and poster presented at our annual conference. This year, we re-opened our Postgraduate Exchange Prize, inviting blog submissions relating to our conference plenary on ‘Women and Work’. The entries were judged … Continued
The Social History Society’s Book Prize recognises innovative scholarship the fields of social and cultural history. Each autumn we look for the best original work of historical research published by an established author in the preceding calendar year. This year’s prize recognises books published in 2019. Our judging committee was chaired by Professor Pat Thane … Continued
