Mad Lives and Feminist History
What entitles a life to a place in the annals of feminist history? Marybeth Hamilton explores the marginalisation of writer and drifter, Valerie Solanas.
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Nostalgic Patriarchies
Hannah Skoda shows the historically persistent connection between abuse of animals and abuse of intimate partners. Through the ages, abusers have often expressed nostalgia for the 'good old days' of severe patriarchy.
Solitude Has Many Faces
Solitude remains one of the most puzzling eternals of the human condition. Barbara Taylor discusses what the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe reveals about its many forms.
The Origins of Culture Wars
How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth century Germany? Robert D. Priest explores.
Teaching and Learning Global History Between Beirut and Cambridge
Aayushi Gupta, Hadil Ibrahim Maddah & Ghiwa Naem reflect on the experience of teaching and learning global history in a time of conflict.
History Workshop Journal
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HWJ 100
Read the latest issue of History Workshop Journal - celebrating the journal's 100th issue on its 50th anniversary.
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The New Left
In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left
Read Article "The New Left"From Place to Place
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.
YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE
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
Sabine Hanke examines how Lakota performers challenged and resisted the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
The Shape of Hunger
Chin Kar Yern explores how hawkers have shaped the landscape of hunger in Malaysia.
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Working Collectively Then and Now
How did History Workshop Journal's editorial collective sustain its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks discuss.
Reimagining Trades Union History
What does a new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history reveal about the tumultuous story of workers organising for change?
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: 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.