by royalhistsoc | 29 Mar 2021 | Writing Race
How can researchers work sensitively with recent oral histories, particularly when the interviews they are using are not their own? In this post for our new Writing Race blog series, Jessica White reflects on some of the ethical questions she has encountered as a...
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...
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....
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...
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...