Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
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inc GSTTransactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers and winners of RHS prizes. Volume 2 of the Seventh Series includes research articles on Europeans in fourteenth-century China; English social and political history; collecting and connoisseurship in China during the eighteenth century; the 1848 revolutions; Indian anti-colonialism; old age and rural life in late Imperial Russia; the photography of Lejaren à Hiller; cricket and literary culture in early twentieth-century Britain; the professionalization of the UK's museum sector; and transnational activism. The volume also includes The Common Room section, containing shorter articles on slavery, history teaching and censorship, and a series of review articles on subjects including the challenges facing independent scholars, the digitisation of historical sources, and the work of early-career researchers on Black British histories.
- Provides a collection of articles that represents the best current historical research by some of the world's leading historians
- Examines a variety of subjects across a range of historical, geographical and cultural contexts, from fourteenth-century China to Britain in the twentieth century
- Includes a Welcome from the Editor, The Common Room section, containing shorter pieces on historiography, methodology and new scholarship, and a series of review articles
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February 2025Paperback
9781009601269
512 pages
227 × 152 × 26 mm
0.73kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction:
- 1. Welcome Jan Machielsen
- Articles:
- 2. Yangzhou, 1342: Caterina Vilioni's Passport to the Afterlife Krisztina Ilko
- 3. Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560–1600 John Gallagher
- 4. Guwantu: The Yongzheng Emperor's (r. 1723–1735) 'Illustrated Inventory of Ancient Playthings' (1729) and Imperial Collecting in Eighteenth Century China Phillip Grimberg
- 5. Guwantu: The Yongzheng Emperor's (r. 1723–1735) 'Illustrated Inventory of Ancient Playthings' (1729) and Imperial Collecting in Eighteenth Century China – ADDENDUM Phillip Grimberg
- 6. Reading his Way to Royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, Side-Changing and Loyalty in England and Wales, 1639–66 Sarah Ward Clavier
- 7. The Foods of Love? Food Gifts, Courtship and Emotions in Long Eighteenth-Century England Sally Holloway
- 8. A Sense of a European Present and its Passing during the Revolutions of 1848 James Morris
- 9. Resisting Biographical Illusions: Pandurang Khankhoje, Indian Revolutionaries and the Anxiety to be Remembered Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
- 10. Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village Sarah Badcock
- 11. The India League and the Condition of India: Agnotological Imperialism, Colonial State Violence and the Making of Anticolonial Knowledge 1930–4 Abhimanyu Arni
- 12. 'Luxuries of the mind': Contextualising Art Photography, Eroticism and History of Medicine in the Social tableaux vivants of Lejaren à Hiller's Sutures in Ancient Surgery (1920s–1940s) J. T. H. Connor
- 13. Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Ollie Randall
- 14. 'Providing a Layman's Guide to the Scheme': Museum Computing, Professional Personas and Documentary Labour in the United Kingdom, 1967–1983 James Baker
- 15. Rethinking Transnational Activism through Regional Perspectives: Reflections, Literatures and Cases Thomas Davies, Daniel Laqua, Maria Framke, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Patricia Oliart, Kate Skinner, Pilar Requejo de Lamo, Robert Kramm, Charlotte Alston and Matthew Hurst
- 16. Decolonising the History of Internationalism: Transnational Activism across the South Su Lin Lewis
- The Common Room:
- 17. 'Slaves' and 'Slave Owners' or 'Enslaved People' and 'Enslavers'? James Robert Burns
- 18. Teaching Modern British Political History in a Politically Polarised and 'Post-Truth' Environment Richard Jobson
- 19. Censoring Our History Andrew Lownie
- Comment:
- 20. Naming and Shaming? Telling Bad Bridget® Stories Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick
- 21. 'Pity the poor independent scholar!': The Lament of a Latecomer Historian John Sanders
- 22. Material and Digital Archives: The Case of Wills Harry Smith and Emily Vine
- 23. Promoting Well-being through History Teaching David Stack
- 24. Emerging Scholars Researching Black British Histories (mid-Eighteenth to mid-Nineteenth Centuries) Kristy Warren, Annabelle Gilmore and Montaz Marché.
