Online Resources: Modern Britain (1900-present)

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Archigram Archival Project  http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through an online database of the architectural group Archigram (1961-1974), who were “amongst the most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural...

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...

Expertise Unbound? The state and its use of specialists in times of crisis

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jun 2020 | Guest Posts, RHS Publications

In this post, published simultaneously with the IHR, Christopher Phillips, whose book Civilian Specialists at War has just been published in our New Historical Perspectives open access book series, draws comparisons between specialist involvement in the current...

Beyond this Day – 6 May 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Attack on “Warlike” Pathans.

by | 06 May 2019 | Guest Posts

Monday, 6 May 2019 marks a hundred years since the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Afghan War (6 May – 8 August 1919). In the first of a new series of posts examining the histories beyond significant dates, Kate Imy (Assistant Professor of History, University of...

The Emperor, His Castle and Modern Japan.

by | 30 Apr 2019 | Guest Posts

On May 1, 2019, Prince Naruhito (b. 1960) becomes the emperor of Japan following the abdication of his father, emperor Akihito (b. 1933), after a thirty-year reign. The enthronement ceremonies will take place in the Imperial Palace, a vast former castle complex that...