Of, or For Mary Wollstonecraft?

By Vic Clarke November 16, 2020 Historians' Watch, Histories of the Present 3 comments

Is Maggi Hambling’s ‘A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft’ attuned to the intellectual accomplishments of the woman it was created for, or to the particular struggles of women in the present? Vic Clarke investigates.

Henry Dundas: Naming Empire and Genocide

By Melanie J. Newton November 11, 2020 Historians' Watch 2 comments

How do we name empire and genocide, the structural violence embedded in our built environments, and why does it matter? Melanie J. Newton unpicks the contested legacy of Henry Dundas, eighteenth-century imperialist & “Uncrowned King of Scotland”

Radical Object: The Photos of an East London Suffragette

By Jane McChrystal November 9, 2020 Radical Objects 1 comment

Jane McChrystal surveys Norah Smyth’s engrossing photographs: a powerful record of women’s Suffrage activism, campaigning and social justice in East London.

Radical Books: What is the Sound of Revolution?

By Rosa Campbell and Taushif Kara November 5, 2020 Radical Books 0 comments

A new book on Kate Millett’s 1979 trip to Iran raises questions about voices unheard or marginalized in the writing of history. Rosa Campbell and Taushif Kara explore.

The Faces of Trump’s America

By Jane Caplan November 2, 2020 Histories of the Present 1 comment

What does it mean to write a history of the lived experience of injustice and suffering in Trump’s America? Jane Caplan examines a life caught in the interstices of Trump’s Covid-19 strategy and his attacks on healthcare and public institutions.

Amy Coney Barrett, Enoch Powell and IVF politics

By Laura Beers October 30, 2020 Historians' Watch, Histories of the Present 0 comments

When it comes to IVF politics, have the British been too quick to paint Americans as occupying the anti-scientific fringe? Laura Beers responds after the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court.

The Fifth Pan-African Congress, 1945: A Landmark Moment in British Radical History

By Theo Williams October 26, 2020 Historians' Watch 0 comments

In October 1945, delegates from across the world gathered in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, half a mile south of St Peter’s Field, to take part in the Fifth Pan-African Congress.