On Writing a Historiography of Western Sport in Colonial India

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jun 2023 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions, Writing Race Two

  In ‘The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India’, Subhadipa Dutta offers a historiographical review of the history of Western sport in colonial India. Here Subhadipa explains how she came to her subject as a PhD researcher, and how...

Windrush 75: UK History-related events in June 2023

by royalhistsoc | 07 Jun 2023 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  22 June 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in Essex. The ship brought to Britain just over 800 passengers who had left the West Indies, the great majority of whom sought to settle and begin new lives in the...

Social History From the Global South: New Voices from Southern Africa. Reflections on British Academy Funded Writing Workshop, University of the Free State, South Africa.

by royalhistsoc | 28 Mar 2023 | General, Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  In February 2023, the University of the Free State, South Africa, hosted the workshop ‘Social History from the Global South: New Voice from Southern Africa’, funded by the British Academy.  This workshop was organised to address the issue of...

‘Historical Research in the Digital Age’, Part 5: ‘Digitising History from a Global Perspective; and what this tells us about access and inequality’

by royalhistsoc | 22 Feb 2023 | General, Guest Posts, Historical Research in the Digital Age, Writing Race Two

  In this post we continue our series — ‘Historical Research in the Digital Age’ — which explores historians’ use and understanding of the digital tools and sources that shape modern research culture. The series explores the impact and implications of digital...

Teaching the early modern Islamic World

by royalhistsoc | 22 Dec 2022 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog, Writing Race Two

  In July 2022, Peter Good received one of two Jinty Nelson Teaching Awards given annually by the Royal Historical Society. In this post, for the Society’s ‘Teaching Portal’, Peter reflects on his classroom practice, and how he seeks to...

Black at Sussex

by royalhistsoc | 26 Nov 2022 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  This latest post of our ‘Writing Race’ Series introduces ‘Black at Sussex’ a five-year project which reflects on the history of the Black experience at Sussex University since its foundation in 1961. The project, which launched this...