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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
ISSN: 0080-4401

EISSN: 1474-0648

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ISSN: 0080-4401 (Print), 1474-0648 (Online)
Editors: Professor Andrew Spicer Oxford Brookes University, UK and Professor Richard Toye University of Exeter, UK
Editorial board

The Royal Historical Society has published the highest quality scholarship in history for over 150 years. A subscription includes a substantial annual volume of the Society’s Transactions, which presents wide-ranging reports from the front lines of historical research by both senior and younger scholars, and two volumes from the Camden Fifth Series, which makes available to a wider audience valuable primary sources that have hitherto been available only in manuscript form.

Article
OLD WORDS AND THE NEW WORLD: LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE FRANCISCANS IN NEW SPAIN, 1536–1601 * The Whitfield Prize Winner
Aysha Pollnitz
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 27
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440117000068

450 Years since The Dutch Revolt
05 September 2018, royalhistsoc
Prof Judith Pollmann reflects on the 80-year 'Dutch Revolt'.

New Camden Volume on Henry Piers
28 August 2018, royalhistsoc
Brian Mac Cuarta SJ discussed his exciting new volume in our Camden Series.

Camden Collection
15 August 2018, royalhistsoc
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press are making a selection of ten volumes from the Camden Series freely...

Radical physics: Science, socialism and the paranormal
26 September 2018
26 September - 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm The British Academy 10-11 Carlton House Terrace London

The Byzantine Commonwealth 50 Years On
27 September 2018
27 September - 28 September - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Worcester College Oxford Oxford

Historical Association Bath Branch Lecture Programme 2018 - 2019
27 September 2018
27 September - 25 April - 7:30 pm The Quaker Meeting House York Street Bath

Why Revisit the Early Modern Canon?
16 August 2018, Lisa Shapiro
The thing about canons is that they seem sacred. Challenging them, even revisiting them, can seem heretical. Facing these facts is the first step in addressing...

Cambridge University Press to publish Renaissance Quarterly for the Renaissance Society of America
16 August 2018, Colin S. Macdonald
Cambridge University Press is partnering with the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) to publish Renaissance Quarterly, the leading American journal of Renaissance...

The Tudor banquet: digital text mining reveals new information
14 August 2018, Louise Stewart
This blog accomapnies Louise Stewart’s Historical Journal article ‘Social Status and Classicism in the Visual and Material Culture of the Sweet Today, the term ‘banquet’ is commonly used to refer to any lavish feast. However, in the Tudor and Stuart period the word had a different, and very specific meaning, referring to a separate meal which consisted solely of sweet foods. In September 1591, for example, Queen Elizabeth I visited the Earl of Hertford at his estate at Elvetham. The lavish entertainments provided for the queen during her four day stay included water pageants, fireworks, feasts and a glittering ‘banquet’. A printed account of the entertainment makes it clear that this banquet was no ordinary meal. It was served in the garden after supper, ‘all in glass and silver’ and accompanied by a spectacular fireworks display. The queen was presented with a thousand sweet dishes including sculptural sugar work representing her arms, castles and forts, human figures and mythical and exotic animals as well as preserved fruits and other confections. This elaborate spectacle was typical of the sweet banquet.…...