Radical Feminism and the Politics of Orgasm
How did a radical feminist study of the politics of orgasm become a global best-seller - and then disappear? Rosa Campbell explores the life and legacy of the renegade sexologist Shere Hite.
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Colonial Kenya and the Politics of Visibility
During the Kenya Emergency, photography became a vital tool for psychological warfare. Lauren Brown explores how the colonial state used violent images to demonise African insurgents.
A Tale of Two Signals
Lucy Jameson explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.
Being Black in the Borderlands
What are borderlands and how do they shape questions of identity and belonging? Annika Bärwald explores the history of Hamburg's port and the people who passed through it.
Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive
What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.
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Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
Performing the Exotic and Lakota Resistance
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Radical Feminism and the Politics of Orgasm
How did a radical feminist study of the politics of orgasm become a global best-seller - and then disappear? Rosa Campbell explores the life and legacy of the renegade sexologist Shere Hite.
Queering the Medieval Past
What can we learn by turning a queer lens onto the study of medieval art? Three art historians discuss Spectrum of Desire, an exhibition at New York's Cloisters.
Family, Childhood & Life Course
Makeshift Utopias
How might playgrounds form part of a spatial justice movement?
Bonds of Mutuality in East Harlem
How have a small - and declining - group of nuns built grassroots power with immigrant families in East Harlem?
Britain’s ‘Bespoke’ Borders
Michaela Benson unpacks the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa, and how it has contributed to redrawing humanitarian protection and migration policy after Brexit.
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: A Song Born of Women’s Protest
How did a protest by a group of women from a Christian anarchist movement inspire a 1960s American folk song? Victoria Peretitskaya explores the origins of the song, the protest and its feminist legacy.
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.
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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.