Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 2

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 a 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.