Podcasts

Listen to leading scholars, activists and writers talk about the practice of history and reflect on the social forces that are changing our world.

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Bad Gays

Rosa Campbell, Ben Miller & Huw Lemmey

What can the stories of complicated, even evil, gay lives tell us about queer history? Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey discuss.

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Spies For Peace

Nic Ralph & Sam Carroll

Sixty years after breaking into a government bunker to expose secret state planning for nuclear conflict, Nic Ralph speaks for the first time about an extraordinary piece of direct action that genuinely worked.

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Intimacy and Economic Life

Julie Hardwick, Marybeth Hamilton, Kate Gibson, Sarah Roddy, Orsi Husz, Andrew Popp & Alexia Yates

What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and describe the economic past?

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Useful Knowledge

Marybeth Hamilton, Jonny Matfin, Ciarán O'Donohue & Joanna Bourke

How has the concept of "useful knowledge" shaped the 200-year history of Birkbeck College London - and of adult education more generally?

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Ridley Road

May Robson

In this episode of the History Workshop Podcast, we hear an oral history of Ridley Road Market, in east London.

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