Whether archival documents, pieces of material culture or ephemera, the historical object is at the heart of the historian’s work. Here, historians, archivists and activists unpack the stories of these very Radical Objects.
Radical Objects: MaThoko’s Post Box & the Birth of the Black LGBT Movement in South Africa
John Marnell on MaThoko’s old post box, which played an important role as a key communication node for the nascent LGBT movement in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s
Radical Objects: A Father’s Diary from the End of the War
In our first Radical Object for the year, HWJ editor Jane Caplan looks back seventy years to 1945, exploring a very personal family object from the year of her birth, a year marked by changing politics in Britain as the Second World War came to an end
Radical Recipes: Women, Work and Cornish Pasties
Sarah Hiorns explains the forgotten histories behind her family’s written, typed, and laminated pasty recipe
Radical Objects: A Photo of Hiro Sumpter
Greenham and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity: A Photo of Hiro Sumpter by Ulrike Wöhr
Radical Objects: The Palestinian Tapestry: A People’s History
The Palestinian History Tapestry aims to tell and preserve the story of the Palestinian people, their livelihoods and traditions, and their struggle under colonial rule and Israeli occupation
Radical Objects: The Bearded Man and the Bomb
This month in Radical Objects, HWO talked to Elena Carter, a project archivist at the Wellcome Library about her work on the Medact Archive, a collection of materials relating to anti-nuclear campaigning by medical practitioners.
Radical Objects: The London Policeman Songsheet
The London Policeman songsheet, the Miner’s Strike and the Battle of Orgreave by Catherine Robins from the Working Class Movement Library
Radical Objects: The Common Man’s Gandhi Cap
The Indian election has seen a re-invention of the country’s most politically iconic headwear.
Radical Objects: The Black Fist Afro Comb
Sally-Ann Ashton on the evocative symbol of the black fist Afro comb
Radical Objects: April Ashley’s Birth Certificate & Birthday Card
The birth certificate and birthday card of transgender activist, actress and fashion model, April Ashley, whose life is celebrated in an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool until 21 September 2014
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