Video and audio recordings of Professor Yasmin Khan’s recent RHS Lecture — ‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’ — are now available.
Yasmin’s lecture, given on 12 September 2025, 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).
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Further content in the Society’s Events Archive
Recordings of other Society lectures and events are also available to watch or listen to again. Recordings include recent lectures by, among other speakers:
- Peter Gatrell on ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’ (RHS Prothero Lecture, July 2025)
- Mark Stoyle on ‘Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West’ (RHS Lecture, May 2025)
- Natasha Hodgson on ‘Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World’ (RHS Lecture, February 2025)
- Lucy Noakes on ‘War and Peace: Mass Observation, Memory and the Ends of the Second World War in Britain’ (RHS President’s Address, November 2024)
- Janina Ramirez on ‘Why Writing Women Back into History Matters’ (RHS Public History Lecture, November 2024)
Many more lectures, and other events, are available from the Society’s Events Archive.
Forthcoming Society lectures, October to December 2025
October to December 2025 sees the following Society lectures, taking place in venues across the UK and online:
- Tim Grady on ‘Unravelling the Tapestry of Death: Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars’, part of the Society’s visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Wednesday 22 October
- Daniel Finkelstein on ‘Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother’, this year’s Public History Lecture with Gresham College, Tuesday 4 November
- Jane Ohlmeyer on ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’, this year’s RHS Anniversary Lecture, on Friday 21 November
- Heather Ellis on ‘Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain’, part of the Society’s joint visit to historians at the Institute of Education and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Wednesday 10 December.
Further details and booking for each of these lectures is now available from the Events page of the Society’s website.