The Horse Tamer of Grosvenor Square ’68
What is the story behind a single photograph of the 1968 "Battle of Grosvenor Square"?
Home
Trekking with the Revolution: Birgitta Dahl in Guinea-Bissau
What might the trip of Birgitta Dahl to the meet Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC liberation movement reveal about the motivations of transnational solidarity in the era of decolonisation?
Feminism and the Global Justice Movement
How did feminist activists from the US and the Global South influence the Global Justice Movement?
On Black Cultural Memory
In the years since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Emma-Lee Amponsah reflects on the shared global experience of Black Cultural Memory.
Solidarities Across Borders
This article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series on Solidarities Across Borders.
History Workshop Journal
Latest Issue
HWJ 95
Read the latest issue of History Workshop Journal. With a feature on Remembering the Radical Seventies.
Read Article "HWJ 95"Latest Virtual Issue
Refugees
This Virtual Special Issue curates History Workshop’s contribution to refugee studies - with a new introduction and 20 articles, free access for six months.
Read Article "Refugees"Global Feminisms
This series explores how global events, ideas and tactics have impacted feminism, and vice versa. How have feminists worked across differences – for example, of race, nation, politics – more and less successfully?
Feminism and the Global Justice Movement
How did feminist activists from the US and the Global South influence the Global Justice Movement?
May Ayim’s Cosmopolitanism from Below in Europe
May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s. But how did her work across borders exemplify cosmopolitanism from below? Tiffany N. Florvil explores the life and networks of a visionary.
South Asian Women Reimagine Public Space
How do historical dreams of streets that are safe, joyful, fun and without violence impact on today's movement to reclaim space by South Asian women?
History Workshop Podcast
Listen to our latest episodes on:
Soundcloud,
Apple Podcasts,
Stitcher or
Spotify
The Horse Tamer of Grosvenor Square ’68
What is the story behind a single photograph of the 1968 "Battle of Grosvenor Square"?
Dig Where You Stand
What can we learn from a 45-year-old Swedish manifesto that helped inspire the movement for workers' history?
From the archive
Insights into today’s world via a deep dive into our archives.
A War on History? Patriotism and Propaganda in Contemporary Russia
How can we understand the true forces behind Russia’s expansionist aspirations today? Hubertus Jahn traces the long ideological roots of Putin's propaganda.
Abortion Before Roe
How did US women have abortions when it was illegal? Rosa Campbell explores an archive of US women's testimonies of abortions across borders, in Japan, Puerto Rico and Mexico, with resonances for today.
Colonial Fantasies of the Offshore
What do colonial histories of movement across the ocean tell us about present day proposals to send asylum seekers to offshore sites?
Radical Objects
Whether letters, food or ephemera, material objects have acted as radical agents in history. Here, historians, archivists and activists unpack stories of solidarity and everyday lives.
Radical Object: The Dress of a Leeds Suffragette
What can the dress of a suffragette tell us about radical feminist politics and fashion during the early twentieth century? Sophia Lambert explores.
Radical Objects: Che Guevara’s Africa Notebook
Previously untranslated Che Guevara notebook sheds fresh light on the Cuban-African relation and the life of the famed revolutionary.
Sharpening Skills
What can tools - for cutting, sharpening or carrying - tell us about the nature of work in the past? Paul Warde on how the skills that tools embodied can nuance narratives of modernity and productivity.