Waiting to die? Old age in the late Imperial Russian village

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2023 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

  What was daily life like for old people in Russian villages at the turn of the twentieth century? In this post, Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham) considers the lives of non-able elderly people in late Imperial Russia; drawing on accounts of real lives...

STATUES, SURREALISM AND PUBLIC SPACE

by royalhistsoc | 29 Aug 2023 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  The purpose of statues in public spaces has recently become a matter of controversy. In this post, Pippa Catterall considers how and when a statue may be read as appropriately situated in public space, and when and how it is not. This ‘rightmindedness of...

Gendering Violence in the Past

by royalhistsoc | 07 Aug 2023 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

  In her new article, now published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Dr Victoria Leonard analyses the letters of St Augustine of Hippo, and demonstrates how their ‘silences’ convey the erasure of gendered violence and queer sexuality...

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...

Jehan Creton’s ‘Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre’

by royalhistsoc | 07 Jun 2023 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

  The latest volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is published in June: La Prinse et Mort du Roy Richart d’Angleterre, and Other Works by Jehan Creton, translated and edited by Lorna A. Finlay. In this post Lorna introduces the texts...

Anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt

by royalhistsoc | 13 Apr 2023 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

  To coincide with the release of his new book Anti-Communism in Britain During the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt, Dr Matthew Gerth considers the anti-communist credentials of the post-war British prime minister, Clement Attlee. Matthew’s book,...