What can the famous ‘Nippy’ waitress, a fixture at Lyon’s Tea Shops across Britain, teach us about emotions at work?
History Workshop Online
Settler Histories and Sustainable Meats
How did a desire for meat in a climate that did not support cattle rearing allow settlers to expand their reach? Efrat Gilad explores the history of meat consumption and the expanded meat trade as larger numbers of European Jews arrived in British Mandate Palestine.
The Women Who Ended an Emperor
How can we understand women’s role in political violence and terrorism? James Crossland discusses the role of Russian women in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
“Bread in those days was like gold!” A survivor’s account of the Siege of Leningrad
A moving first-hand account of the Siege of Leningrad from a civilian who lived through it, transcribed and introduced by his great nephew, Mikael Kai Zakharov.
Labour and Love: A Herstory of Work and Childcare in the Industrial Revolution
How did working-class mothers during the Industrial Revolution combine waged labour with childcare? Melanie Reynolds explores little-known practices of women caring for their children in factories and mills
The Communist Party Historians’ Group and a Play about the English Revolution
The Historians Group of the Communist Party commissioned a play about the English Revolution in 1948. But how politically useful was this production?
A Gilded Crowbar for the Bailiff
Bart van der Steen discusses the role and importance of the crowbar in the act of squatting, in Amsterdam and beyond.
