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...

Futures for the History Journal

by royalhistsoc | 12 Dec 2022 | General, Online Events, Transactions

    ABOUT THIS EVENT Journals have long been, and remain, central to the communication of historical research. As a publishing form, History journals have proved remarkably durable, with developments typically taking place within an established framework of...

150 years of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1872-2022)

by royalhistsoc | 17 Nov 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

  November 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, our academic journal. A century and a half on, the 2022 volume of Transactions — published this month — also sees significant changes to the content,...

A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History

by royalhistsoc | 22 Jun 2022 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications, Transactions

    In their new article, now published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Stuart McManus and Michael T. Tworek offer a new approach to early modern global history. What they dub ‘(dis)entangled history’ is a way to combine the...

Parades and Power in Early Modern Japan

by royalhistsoc | 11 May 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

    In her new article for Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Rebekah Clements explores the complexities of political sovereignty in early modern Japan through the practice of ‘alternate attendance’. The requirement for...

Conversion and the Purposes of Mission in Protestant History

by royalhistsoc | 30 Mar 2022 | General, RHS Publications, Transactions

    If you were a missionary, what constitutes a genuine ‘conversion’? How can you be confident that the people you seek to convert are not deceiving you, or themselves? In this post Professor Alec Ryrie and Dr David Trim introduce ‘Four...