Capitalism Compressed
Hege Høyer Leivestad explores the ultimate itinerant object in histories of global capitalism: the shipping container.
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Hendry and The Scottish ‘Tinker Experiment’
Becky Taylor explores how ideas of sedentarism affected the lives of Gypsy/Traveller children and families in Scotland.
Colston’s Toppling Five Years On
Eleanor Callaghan examines how Bristol's local authorities and museum curators turned a controversial monument into an opportunity for inclusive public history.
The ‘Daisies’ of the Amandla Cultural Ensemble
How did South African women use culture to build an international anti-apartheid movement? Kebotlhale Motseothata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble
Is there really fashion in Jamaica?
Elli Young explores how archiving Jamaican fashion history challenges colonial narratives of the Caribbean.
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What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering' from place to place? This series explore itinerance in histories of space, movement and labour, and how historians might imagine news ways of researching itinerantly.
Capitalism Compressed
Hege Høyer Leivestad explores the ultimate itinerant object in histories of global capitalism: the shipping container.
Hendry and The Scottish ‘Tinker Experiment’
Becky Taylor explores how ideas of sedentarism affected the lives of Gypsy/Traveller children and families in Scotland.
Do you know this place used to be a camp?
How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight? Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how to adequately locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.
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The Socialist Anthropocene
What can the visual arts reveal about the historical relationship between socialism and the natural world?
War and the Mind
Is war innate to human psychology? An exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum explores.
From the archive
Celebrating women’s history month 2025
Playing the Game
Rosa Campbell on cis and trans women's struggles to play sport in the past and present.
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.
Anna May Wong and transnational Chinese resistance
Helena Lopes explores the role of multilingual women in transnational Chinese resistance through the B-movies of Anna May Wong.
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: Printer’s Type from the Thames Foreshore
If you go down to the Thames today, you're sure of a big surprise - printer's type. Peter Wollweber unpacks its radical history.
Radical Objects: Transregional Chinese-language Children’s Magazines
Allan Pang explores the diverse and conflicting depictions of Chinese and world history in transregional children's magazines.
Radical Objects: The Pot and Pan
Matthew Kerry explores how the humble pot and pan have become powerful tools for protestors.