Histories of the Present

Since it began in the 1960s, the History Workshop movement has sought to make history relevant to contemporary politics. We continue this project through these Histories of the Present.

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The Other Iron Ladies

Steven Fielding

The film The Iron Lady has again focused attention on Margaret Thatcher and her leadership of an otherwise male-dominated Conservative Party. Steven Fielding, Nottingham University, assesses how other cultural representations of Tory women…

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Breaking the Silence

Merylin Moos

The shared experiences of people born to refugee parents from Nazism, the 'second generation', as seen through a series of interviews by the author, Merilyn Moos, with children of parents who fled from Germany, Austria, Hungary,…

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Radical Impact?

Laura Gowing

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…

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