Our thanks to Professor Yasmin Khan who, on Friday 12 September, gave the next in the Society’s 2025 series of public lectures, held in person at Mary Ward House London and online.
Yasmin’s lecture, entitled ‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’, considered how extensively British military history has relied on non-British people over the past two centuries. This was a global phenomenon and Yasmin provided examples of combatant and non-combatant involvement in conflict regions locations from North Africa to the islands of the Pacific and jungles of East Asia.
Yasmin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford where she teaches Global and Imperial history. Her publications include The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Yale, 2007) and The Raj at War (Bodley Head, 2015).
Video and audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly on the Society’s website.
Forthcoming lectures
The Society’s next public lectures, for which booking is now available, take place as part of forthcoming RHS visits to historians across the UK:
5.30pm Wednesday 17 September at the University of Aberdeen, with guest lecturer Professor Matthew J. Smith (UCL): ‘Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories’.
5.30pm Wednesday 22 October at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich, with guest lecturer Professor Tim Grady (Chester): ‘Unravelling the Tapestry of Death: Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars’.
Our next London lecture is the Society’s annual Public History Lecture in association with Gresham College London. This year’s lecture, ‘Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man who Murdered my Grandmother’, will be given by Daniel Finkelstein at Gresham College at 6pm on Tuesday 4 November. Booking to attend online is now open; in-person booking will open on 5 October.
For audio and video recordings of previous Royal Historical Society lectures and events, please see the Events Archive page.
HEADER IMAGE: Edward Stanford. ‘The British Empire at War’ (1916), public domain, University of Illinois Library