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Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary

The discovery of 60 volumes of diaries belonging to suffrage society activist Kate Parry Frye, has allowed author Elizabeth Crawford to shine new...

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Reinventing the Academic Journal: The ‘Digital Turn’, Open Access, & Peer Review

Tim Hitchcock and Jason M. Kelly discuss the transformations of the ‘digital turn’ to academic publishing practises and ways of defining an...

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Review: Women and Social Movements International, 1840 to the Present

Sinead McEneaney reviews the Women and Social Movements International reference database, published by Alexander Street Press, which contains 60,000...

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Trabajadores: Spanish Civil War Archives Online

Liz Wood, Assistant Archivist at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, writes about the Centre's recent digitisation project for primary...

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An Inadvertent Revolutionary? Developing Law, Crime and History as an Open Access Journal

Dr Kim Stevenson on being an inadvertent revolutionary with first hand experience of Open Access publishing...

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The discovery of 60 volumes of diaries belonging to suffrage society activist Kate Parry Frye, has allowed author Elizabeth Crawford to shine new light on the work of New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage during the period 1911 to 1915


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Tim Hitchcock and Jason M. Kelly discuss the transformations of the ‘digital turn’ to academic publishing practises and ways of defining an academic community


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Sinead McEneaney reviews the Women and Social Movements International reference database, published by Alexander Street Press, which contains 60,000 documents relating to women in social movements in the United States


Editors' Blog

History Workshop Journal Vol.75 Issue 1 Spring 2013

By admin - April 1, 2013 (0 Comments)

Table of Contents of the latest issue of the History Workshop Journal, Volume 75, Issue 1, Spring 2013

Open Access: History Workshop Journal’s Response

By admin - December 14, 2012 (0 Comments)

The History Workshop Journal collective has agreed to support the following statement on position in relation to open access in response to the Finch Report, along with the editors of many other UK-based history journals.

Come on Ruskin: Do the Right Thing

By Toby Butler - November 5, 2012 (8 Comments)

HWO Editor Toby Butler, a former student of Ruskin College, shares his reaction to the destruction of Ruskin’s student records

Archives: A House on Fire?

By Anne - October 17, 2012 (3 Comments)

Anne Summers writes about 2012′s shutdowns, sales and destruction of archival resources in Britain, a year that has exceeded any pessimist’s wildest imaginings…

Memories of Eric Hobsbawm

By admin - October 11, 2012 (0 Comments)

A tribute to Eric Hobsbawn, by David Feldman, of Birkbeck College, London