Our report on race and ethnicity in UK History has generated significant media coverage and a very positive reaction across the Higher Education sector. You can find some of the coverage below:
- Times Higher Education: “Royal Historical Society report warns dynamism of discipline risks being stifled by lack of diversity” (October 2018).
- The Observer: David Olusoga, “We risk losing slices of our past if we don’t root out racism from our universities” (October 2018).
- The Independent: “1 in 3 university historians from ethnic minorities faces discrimination” (October 2018)
- WonkHE: Jonathan Saha, “Why is History in the UK so white?” (October 2018).
- The Times: “History is too white, claim academics” (October 2018).
- The Times: Michael Burleigh, “Undergraduate History teaching is pale and stale” (October 2018).
- Sadiah Qureshi, “Short Cuts“, London Review of Books 40:22, p.32 (November 2018).
- History@Manchester, “UoM Modern British Historians Respond to the RHS Race Report” (February 2019).
- Meleisa Ono-George, ‘Beyond Diversity: anti-racist pedagogy in British History Departments’, Women’s History Review, 28: 3, pp. 500-507 (March 2019).
- Nadine White, “Britain Now Has Its First Ever Black British History Postgrad Courses. What Took So Long?”, Huffington Post, (March 2019).
- Margot Finn, “Decolonising History? Reflections on the Royal Historical Society’s 2018 Report”, in The white elephant in the room: ideas for reducing racial inequalities in higher education, HEPI Report 120, edited by Hugo Dale-Rivas, pp. 29-34 (September 2019).
- Meleisa Ono-George, “Power in the Telling”: Community-Engaged Histories of Black Britain”, History Workshop (November 2019).