Andrew Whitehead on the reappearance – and disappearance – of old shop signs
Recent Articles
Review of books published by Five Leaves related to the Battle of Cable Street, by Martin Spafford
Should history take a good look at geography and geology, where out-of-school learning and field trips are considered an essential part of the school and university curriculum?
Editors' Blog
A Tale of Two Shop Signs
Andrew Whitehead on the reappearance – and disappearance – of old shop signs
Karachi Literature Festival
Yasmin Khan reports from the 2012 Karachi Literature Festival
History Fieldwork – Do Our Students Get Out Enough?
Should history take a good look at geography and geology, where out-of-school learning and field trips are considered an essential part of the school and university curriculum?
The Nation, Our Libraries and Archives – and the Cuts
Discussion of a History Workshop Journal feature on ‘Coalition Cuts’, threats to archives and their repositories, urging academics, in particular, to champion libraries and archives within their own institutions
Centre – Periphery: We Are All Khaled Said
This article explores the beginnings and similarities of the UK, Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian popular protests and occupations.
From the Great Eastern to Terminal 5: (Mis)remembering Industrial Deaths
Editor’s blog about memories of deaths associated with massive construction projects and structures
An Indian in Bloomsbury
India’s hugely influential progressive writers’ movement dates its inception to a meeting in the basement of the Nanking restaurant in Denmark Street – even then London’s ‘Tin Pan Alley’ – in 1934. Sajjad Zaheer was among those present. He was a student from an elite Muslim family in Lucknow, who had won a reputation as [...]
Radical Impact?
British academic historians are now painfully familiar with the imperative to research our own impact. Our funding is to be dependent, in part, on the measurable impact of our researches in the domain outside the academy. For radical history this raises an interesting potential. Might the drive to narrate impact give us another story?
Eat Your Greens!
More information about the Raphael Samuel History Centre discussions, which look at contemporary issues of food by bringing policy makers and policy users into discussions with historians.
History to be Axed at London Metropolitan University
Reactions to news that history and other arts and humanities subjects are to be axed at the London Metropolitan University (formerly the University of North London and Polytechnic of North London), after having been taught there for over 50 years.
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