Provisional Semantics: Studying Colonial Indian Photographs at the Imperial War Museums

by | 18 Aug 2022 | General, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race Two

  In this latest post for the RHS ‘Writing Race’ series, Helen Mavin, Head of Photographs for the Imperial War Museums, discusses the challenges of creating national museum, gallery, and archive collections. In her role as Co-Investigator for the...

Engaging with the ‘Un-Commemorated’ Past

by | 27 Apr 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

  What does it mean to engage audiences with complex and traumatic histories of empire and war? And how might we engage with the ‘un-commemorated’, whose names have not appeared on the memorial landscape? Dr Diya Gupta (Royal Historical Society) and Dr Anna...

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 Historically-white Sororities and Fraternities are racially problematic in US universities

by | 28 Jul 2021 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

‘Greek Life’ is a distinctive part of the social and cultural experience of universities in the United States, and has faced recent scrutiny for acts of racism, sexism and homophobia. Yet, as Taulby Edmondson points out, the existence of longstanding Black...

Cannabis, Race, and Mental Illness in Britain, 1980-1993

by | 04 Jul 2021 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

Were late-twentieth century British psychiatrists racist? Or psychiatry as a discipline? Or were they both products of the wider society they were situated within? For the ninth post in the RHS’s ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Jamie Banks investigates “cannabis...