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Precarious Professionals: Gender, identities and social change in modern Britain

Precarious Professionals: Gender, identities and social change in modern Britain

by royalhistsoc | 21 Oct 2021 | General, New Historical Perspectives, RHS Publications

In this post, Dr Heidi Egginton and Dr Zoë Thomas introduce their new, edited collection: Precarious Professionals: Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain — the latest title in the RHS’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book...
‘The women had saved the situation’: Indian women’s work in war and famine

‘The women had saved the situation’: Indian women’s work in war and famine

by royalhistsoc | 04 May 2021 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

The work undertaken by lower caste Indian women during the Second World War is both surprising and shocking. For the latest post in the ‘Writing Race’ blog series, Urvi Khaitan — a current PhD researcher — reveals how tens of thousands of women worked above and below...

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