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In Which They Also Served: Tracing British Sailors of Colour in the Second World War Royal Navy

In Which They Also Served: Tracing British Sailors of Colour in the Second World War Royal Navy

by royalhistsoc | 08 Mar 2021 | Writing Race

Much is still unknown about the experiences of Britons of colour in the wartime British armed services, or of those who wanted to enlist but were unable to put on uniform because of racial discrimination. This is particularly true of the Royal Navy.  In the first post...
RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Roadmap for Change II

RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Roadmap for Change II

by royalhistsoc | 25 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Publications, RHS Work

Header Image: The sculpture “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)” by British artist Marc Quinn stands on the plinth in Bristol where the statue of the seventeenth-century merchant and slave-trader Edward Colston had been since 1895. The statue of Colston was...
Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two

Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two

by royalhistsoc | 18 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...

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