Race Update 3 – Advance HE Positive Action Checklist

by shahmimaakhtar | 18 Feb 2020 | Race Update

Advance HE (formally Equality Challenge Unit) published an End of project report in January 2020. The report reflects on a 2016-2018, Advance HE project that invited institutions in England, Wales or Northern Ireland to explore creative approaches to tackling...

Race Update 2 – Higher Education Race Action Group

by shahmimaakhtar | 05 Feb 2020 | Race Update

This ‘Race Update’ introduces resources that have been circulated by the Higher Education Race Action Group (HERAG) and other bodies that could be used in a range of settings such as staff and student induction, training sessions delivered in schools or teaching....

Looking Back, Looking Forward – 2020 at the RHS

by | 22 Jan 2020 | RHS Work

With 2019 well behind us, what are some of the Royal Historical Society’s main priorities for 2020? Events! As ever we have a full programme of lectures and symposia. For our first lecture of the year, on Friday 7 February, we welcome Dr Andrew Arsan (University...

Black British History: A New IHR Seminar Series

by shahmimaakhtar | 20 Jan 2020 | Race Update

Join us for the first IHR Black British History Seminar on Thursday 23rd January at LSBU. The series: ‘Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates’ encompasses Black British History in all its forms. It takes research from those within and beyond the...

Race Update 1 – Highlights from 2019 Reports

by shahmimaakhtar | 16 Jan 2020 | Race Update

Welcome to the first post of the new RHS Race Update blog series! In this new series, Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Past & Present Fellow for the Royal Historical Society’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History initiative will post on subjects related to race, ethnicity...