Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 2

This volume is a collection of articles representing the best current historical research by some of the world's leading historians.

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles representing the best current historical research by some of the world's leading historians. This volume features articles on a range of topics, including China, English history, and transnational activism, and addresses issues of historical methodology and practice.Transactions 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.