What is History For? 2: activism and historical imagination

by royalhistsoc | 27 Jun 2022 | General, What is History For?, Writing Race Two

    In this second post in the ‘What is History For?’ series, Tionne Parris considers the examples set by mid-20th-century Black radical women in their struggle for change. How might historical study of their engagement with, and framing of,...

The ‘Endz’ of Black British History: Recovering the Unrecoverable

by royalhistsoc | 04 Jun 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

  In the latest post in our ‘Writing Race, 2’ series, Warren A. Stanislaus considers the potentiality of Black British History: one more porous and expansive than is currently imagined. In doing so, Warren engages with extra-territorial zones that...

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...