Desert Island Histories: Eli Zaretsky
Eli Zaretsky’s Desert Island Histories
Little Germany, Stratford 1914
As the centenary approaches of the outbreak of the First World War, Simon Buck of Eastside Community Heritage invites support for a local initiative in London’s East End to remember the treatment meted out to the tens of thousands of German nationals living in Britain at that time
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
Roundtable: Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen
Deborah Cohen’s relentlessly compelling book Family Secrets unravels a complex and tangled history of how privacy, secrecy, and shame colluded and collided in the making of modern British family life
Educating the Nation(s): History, Identity and Citizenship after Devolution
Report & audio from this one-day conference which examined issues of history, identity and citizenship across an increasingly divergent, multi-national UK state
The Thatcher-Botha Papers
Martin Plaut on the newly-released documents at the National Archive at Kew that reveal that Mrs Thatcher did not waver in her opposition to South Africa’s white supremacist leader P.W Botha’s racial policies
Radical Objects: Photo of Mewa Singh’s Funeral Procession 1915
Melanie Hardbattle on a discovery from the history of Asian immigration into Canada, made in the Special Collections and Rare Books department at Simon Fraser University Library
Theatre Review: ‘Drawing the Line’
Howard Brenton’s new play examines the last act of British rule in India, the dissection of the country in 1947 to create the independent nations of India and Pakistan
‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson
A previously unpublished paper written by E P Thompson in 1987, and presented at the History and Society Program of the University of Minnesota during the 1987-1988 academic year.
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