How are decisions made in a union? Jack Saunders looks at workplace organisation in the NHS and the motor industry in the post-war period, and offers lessons for the present day.
Tag: gender
Radical Books: ‘Brighton Trans*formed’ (2014), E. J. Scott, Maeve Devine et al
Matt Cook, History Workshop Journal editor and professor of modern history at Birkbeck, on a moving collection of oral histories gathered from people living in the city of Brighton and Hove, who identify in various ways as trans.
Virtual Special Issue: South Asia
A special, free-access compilation of articles on South Asian history from History Workshop Journal
The Pacifist Handkerchief
The pacifist handkerchief invites reflections on contested memories in modern Japanese history.
What is the history of sexuality?
‘What is the History of Sexuality?’ at Birkbeck brought together doctoral students from across the world, and was an opportunity for their innovative research to be critiqued and developed through discussion with scholars in the field.
History Workshop Journal Virtual Special Issue: Early Modern Gender Histories
This, the first in a series of virtual special issues, makes freely available some of the outstanding work on women and gender in the period c.1500-1700 published by History Workshop Journal over the nearly forty years of our history.
Searching for Histories of Black Women’s Service across the Seas in the Second World War
The histories of Black and minority ethnic women who served with the Allied Forces during the Second World War by Dr Jo Stanley
Radical Impact?
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 history this raises an interesting potential. Might the drive to narrate impact give us another story?
International Women’s Day: A Centenary to Celebrate
On its centenary, Jinty Nelson reflects on the genesis and achievements of International Women’s Day – and the ground still to cover.
