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

by royalhistsoc | 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...

The ‘Endz’ of Black British History: Recovering the Unrecoverable

by royalhistsoc | 04 Jun 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

  In the latest post in our ‘Writing Race, 2’ series, Warren A. Stanislaus considers the potentiality of Black British History: one more porous and expansive than is currently imagined. In doing so, Warren engages with extra-territorial zones that...

Engaging with the ‘Un-Commemorated’ Past

by royalhistsoc | 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...

On ‘PASSING’: Shifting histories OF THE ANGLO-INDIAN COMMUNITY

by royalhistsoc | 04 Apr 2022 | Writing Race Two

In the next in our ‘Writing Race’ series, Vishwajeet Deshmukh considers the history of racial ‘passing’ within India’s Anglo-Indian community. Mixed-race descendants of European fathers and Indian mothers, members of the Anglo-Indian...

Objects of Sovereignty: Thinking through Restitution

by royalhistsoc | 21 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

There are currently many thousands of artefacts held in UK museums and other public collections. Devolving Restitution is a series of six workshops to explore the histories of African artefacts in local museums and heritage institutions, and to discuss their...