Precarious Professionals: Gender, identities and social change in modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 21 Oct 2021 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

In this post, Dr Heidi Egginton and Dr Zoë Thomas introduce their new, edited collection: Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain — the latest title in the RHS’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book...

Can we unlearn imperialism in photographic research?

by royalhistsoc | 11 Oct 2021 | Writing Race

How should historians engage with the source materials that record and communicate empire from the perspective of imperial rule? Are there ways of working with sources that enable researchers to free themselves from the intellectual constraints imposed by historical...

‘Positive Action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour

by royalhistsoc | 04 Oct 2021 | Writing Race

In August of this year, the Royal Historical Society organised its first ‘positive action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour. The initiative was led by the Society’s Race, Ethnicity and Equality Working Group which was responsible for the...

Facing current challenges can be a vital part of our curriculum

by royalhistsoc | 27 Sep 2021 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

At a time of already great disruption, historians at Aston University this year faced the threat of departmental closure and redundancy. Public and private support for Aston historians led to the programme’s survival, though colleagues at Aston and historians...

‘I open up my mouth and I just sing’: Studying Black health and the humanities

by royalhistsoc | 05 Sep 2021 | General, Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

In the eleventh post for our ‘Writing Race’ series, Dr Amber Lascelles introduces the Black Health and the Humanities project at the University of Bristol. The project sits at the intersection of Black humanities and medical humanities, and brings together...