The Partition of British India: 75 Years On

by | 05 Nov 2022 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  On 1 November, the Society hosted its annual Public History Lecture, in association with Gresham College. We were delighted to welcome the BBC journalist and broadcaster, Kavita Puri, to give this year’s lecture on the subject of ‘The Partition of...

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

by | 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...

Can we unlearn imperialism in photographic research?

by | 11 Oct 2021 | Writing Race

How should historians engage with the source materials that record and communicate empire from the perspective of imperial rule? Are there ways of working with sources that enable researchers to free themselves from the intellectual constraints imposed by historical...

Why Public History matters for a multi-ethnic Britain

by | 26 Apr 2021 | Writing Race

How might we address limitations in the teaching of empire, and how do we raise awareness of marginalised individuals omitted from prevailing narratives? In this third post for our new ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Serena Cheyenne — a recent MA...

Seeking Thomas Howard in Rotherham: local groundings for a global life

by | 13 May 2019 | Guest Posts

In the last weekend of April, as part of the program for Professor Elena Smilianskaia, a visiting fellow at the University of Exeter, Dr Julia Leikin, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, organized a trip to the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, to find out more...