Denis Delay: Docker, Trade Unionist and Writer
The story of archiving the papers of Trade Unionist Dennis Delay, by Sam Patterson
Battling Impunity in the Indonesian Elections
Dr Vannessa Hearman on the democratic transition and human rights abuses in Indonesia
New Centre for Modern British Studies
In March 2014 a group of historians at the University of Birmingham launched a new Centre for Modern British Studies: MBS@Birmingham
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
Desert Island Histories: James Vernon
Desert Island Histories from James Vernon
Radical Objects: The Common Man’s Gandhi Cap
The current Indian election has seen a re-invention of the country’s most politically iconic headwear. The old Gandhi cap, a symbol of India’s non-violent pursuit of self-reliance and independence, has been revived – not, as Andrew Whitehead explains, by the Congress party with which Gandhi was once associated but by a new, insurgent political party
‘Freedom’ 1886-2014: An Obituary
A subscriber to Freedom for more than fifty years, David Goodway laments the end of one of the world’s oldest left-wing papers
Desert Island Histories: Sheena Evans
Desert Islands Histories from Sheena Evans
Gendered Clothing Legislation & Trans Experience in Guyana
Diana Paton and Gemma Romain on the rejection of the appeal by four Guyanese trans persons who had been convicted of wearing female clothing in a public place by the Supreme Court of Guyana
Archiving and Commemorating Japan’s Triple Disaster
How can historians respond to national disasters? To mark the third anniversary of the 3.11 disaster in Japan, History Workshop Online asked Nick Kapur and John Morris to write about two projects that they have been centrally involved in.
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