Race Update 1 – Highlights from 2019 Reports

by | 16 Jan 2020 | Race Update

Welcome to the first post of the new RHS Race Update blog series! In this new series, Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Past & Present Fellow for the Royal Historical Society’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History initiative will post on subjects related to race, ethnicity...

Roadmap for Change Update: The RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report one year on.

by | 11 Dec 2019 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Publications, RHS Work

If you have been following the RHS, you will know that we have been involved in pressing to make History a more equal, inclusive and welcoming space. Our 2018 Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report committed the RHS to reporting on its progress a year on, and today we...

The RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report: One Year On

by | 18 Oct 2019 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

It has been a year since the publication of the RHS’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change (2018). In this post, Shahmima Akhtar, our Past and Present Fellow, reflects on the work that has been done in this area, and our...

A Cultural History of Irish Identity on Display

by | 31 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Shahmima Akhtar joined the Royal Historical Society in July 2019 as Past and Present Fellow: Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History. Over the next two years Shahmima will work with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute for Historical Research to advance...

RHS Race Report

by | 17 Oct 2018 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Publications, RHS Work

Royal Historical Society report highlights need for greater diversity in UK History A new report published today (18 October 2018) by the Royal Historical Society (RHS) highlights racial and ethnic inequalities in the teaching and practice of History in the UK. It...

Race, Ethnicity & Equality Group

by | 22 Jan 2018 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Building on our work on gender equality for historians in UK Higher Education, the RHS has established a Race, Ethnicity & Equality (REE) Working Group to examine the challenges facing black and minority ethnic historians in UK HE. Below, Dr Sadiah Qureshi (Senior...