Charting Time and Visualising Race in Europe’s Enlightenment

by royalhistsoc | 09 Feb 2022 | General, Writing Race Two

Welcome to the first in a new series of posts in the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Writing Race’ series. To begin Series Two, Professor Bruce Buchan considers the prominence of race in Enlightenment thought, with reference to the work of the Scottish...

Introducing ‘Writing Race’, Series Two

by royalhistsoc | 08 Feb 2022 | Writing Race Two

In this post Dr Diya Gupta introduces Series Two of ‘Writing Race’, the Society’s collection of essays on race and its relationship to history. ‘Writing Race’ began on the Society’s blog, Historical Transactions, in March 2021. As commissioning...

Can we unlearn imperialism in photographic research?

by royalhistsoc | 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...

‘Positive Action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour

by royalhistsoc | 04 Oct 2021 | Writing Race

In August of this year, the Royal Historical Society organised its first ‘positive action’ workshop for early-career historians of colour. The initiative was led by the Society’s Race, Ethnicity and Equality Working Group which was responsible for the...

‘I open up my mouth and I just sing’: Studying Black health and the humanities

by royalhistsoc | 05 Sep 2021 | General, Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

In the eleventh post for our ‘Writing Race’ series, Dr Amber Lascelles introduces the Black Health and the Humanities project at the University of Bristol. The project sits at the intersection of Black humanities and medical humanities, and brings together...