History Workshop Journal (HWJ) and History Workshop Online (HWO) are seeking to appoint two early career historians as Editorial Fellows in the academic year 2021-22. Closing date 2 August.
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A Family History Workshop event: Telling Small Stories, Telling Big Stories
This two-day event will bring together academic historians working on family histories and family historians to explore the role of family stories for histories of communities, nations and the world.
Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2021
This year’s Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture will take place online on Wednesday 16 June. Hazel Carby will speak on ‘Imperial Sexual Economies’.
EVENT: LGBTIQ+ resilience: activism & mutual aid in the pandemic
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LGBTIQ+ resilience: Activism & mutual aid in the pandemic
‘Building Welfare States’: Report on an Online Conference
Amidst the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic it seems that virtual conferences are here to stay. In the first half of this post, PhD student Ed DeVane reflects on the experience of ‘doing’ an online event. The second half of this blog serves as a report on the proceedings of the ‘Building Welfare States’ conference, hosted (online) by Warwick University, 23rd – 25th September 2020.
Covid-19 in Historical Perspective: An ‘in Conversation’ Series
A series of ‘in conversation’ events exploring the many historical perspectives through which we can view, and better understand, the current coronavirus pandemic.
The National Charter Association and its legacy, 180 years on
In July 1840 a convention of twenty-three delegates met at the Griffin Inn, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester. Elected by Chartist bodies from across Britain, their purpose was to put together a plan for reorganising the movement following a year of repression, in which much of their leadership had been imprisoned, transported, or forced into exile. On July 20 the delegates agreed a plan for a permanent organisation of all the Chartist groups across the country within ‘one Society to be Called “The National Charter Association of Great Britain”’. With this they made history: the formation of the first working-class, mass-member political party in the world.
