Raphael Samuel History Centre

Read about the focus and aims of the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

Meet the team behind the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

Take a look at upcoming and past events hosted by the Centre.

These annual memorial lectures and held in honour of the late Raphael Samuel.

Together with The Kensington Narrators, the Centre delivered a Heritage Lottery Funded project to create an archive of the community’s arts response to the Grenfell Tower Fire.

This research project sought to bring together global, national and local historical perspectives, and to place trafficking in the context of migration, labour, and gender.

This collaboration between Birkbeck and Leeds Beckett University researched histories of sexual identities and communities in Leeds, Plymouth, Brighton and Manchester since c.1965

A festival exploring radical approaches to the past, and histories of radical action and thought.

Take a look at previous festivals run between the Centre and various heritage and archive organisations.

Find out about this AHRC-funded network that brings together historians.

The Centre works with a network of heritage and archive organisations to run regular Public History Festivals.

History Acts is an organisation that aims to develop links between historians and activists.

RSHC runs workshops and events in association with the Historians Collaborate Network.

Histories of racism, racialization and resistance.

An interdisciplinary research project exploring the multi-relational character of Jewish immigrant culture in London through new sources.

Take a look at the events held as part of the Conversations and Disputations seminar series.

The seminar series explores historical perspectives on themes such as queer(ing) history, sexual reform and identity-based movements, and representations of sexuality.