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...

Meet the RHS Council – Rebekah Lee

by Katherine Foxhall | 26 Jan 2021 | RHS Work

For a new blog series to start 2021, we asked some of the new RHS councillors and office holders to introduce themselves… Dr Rebekah Lee is a Senior Lecturer at the History Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests concern the social...

Ethics in the Classroom Setting

by royalhistsoc | 07 Dec 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Teachers

History is about opinion, judgement and (often) getting beyond monolithic assumptions about ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.  At the same time, the classroom should be a safe and ethical place for the exchange of views and a space that is marked by respect, sensitivity and...

Teaching Black and South Asian British Histories

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In the current political juncture, we are witnessing wide-ranging calls to decolonise the curriculum. Many are now campaigning to ensure that history teaching within the UK incorporates histories of British imperialism and, more specifically, Black British History....

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...