Rediscovering Hitavadi: A Forgotten Chapter in Telugu Print Culture

by royalhistsoc | 12 Mar 2025 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions, Writing Race Two

    In this post Chakali Chandra Sekhar introduces his new article,  ‘Rediscovering Hitavadi: A Forgotten Pioneer of Telugu Vernacular Print and Missionary Journalism’, recently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Hitavadi was the...

Rethinking Transnational Activism – and Rethinking Article-Writing for History Journals

by royalhistsoc | 12 Dec 2024 | RHS Publications, Transactions

    This post outlines the genesis of ‘Rethinking Transnational Activism through Regional Perspectives: Reflections, Literatures and Cases’, an article in the 2024 volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. As a coming together of scholars in...

Literary Cricket, Intellectual Culture and Edwardian In-Groups

by royalhistsoc | 09 Sep 2024 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

    How can studies of group activities inform our understanding of historical figures? In this post, Ollie Randall introduces his new article,’Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’, published this month in...

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...