Engaging with the ‘Un-Commemorated’ Past

by royalhistsoc | 27 Apr 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

  What does it mean to engage audiences with complex and traumatic histories of empire and war? And how might we engage with the ‘un-commemorated’, whose names have not appeared on the memorial landscape? Dr Diya Gupta (Royal Historical Society) and Dr Anna...

‘Quando Era Jovem…’ – Towards an Intergenerational, Oral History of Youth in Maputo, Mozambique

by royalhistsoc | 21 Apr 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

    How does an oral historian, working in Mozambique, respond to the lockdowns and travel restrictions of recent years? Johanna Wetzel is a PhD student researching the history of youth — ser jovem or juventude — in Maputo, with particular...

On ‘PASSING’: Shifting histories OF THE ANGLO-INDIAN COMMUNITY

by royalhistsoc | 04 Apr 2022 | Writing Race Two

In the next in our ‘Writing Race’ series, Vishwajeet Deshmukh considers the history of racial ‘passing’ within India’s Anglo-Indian community. Mixed-race descendants of European fathers and Indian mothers, members of the Anglo-Indian...

Objects of Sovereignty: Thinking through Restitution

by royalhistsoc | 21 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

There are currently many thousands of artefacts held in UK museums and other public collections. Devolving Restitution is a series of six workshops to explore the histories of African artefacts in local museums and heritage institutions, and to discuss their...

Charting Time and Visualising Race in Europe’s Enlightenment

by royalhistsoc | 09 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

Welcome to the first in a new series of posts in the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Writing Race’ series. To begin Series Two, Professor Bruce Buchan considers the prominence of race in Enlightenment thought, with reference to the work of the Scottish...

Introducing ‘Writing Race’, Series Two

by royalhistsoc | 08 Feb 2022 | Writing Race Two

In this post Dr Diya Gupta introduces Series Two of ‘Writing Race’, the Society’s collection of essays on race and its relationship to history. ‘Writing Race’ began on the Society’s blog, Historical Transactions, in March 2021. As commissioning...