John Marnell on MaThoko’s old post box, which played an important role as a key communication node for the nascent LGBT movement in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.
Radical Objects
Radical Objects: A Father’s Diary from the End of the War
HWJ editor Jane Caplan looks back to 1945 to examine a very personal family object from the year of her birth, a year marked by changing politics in Britain as the Second World War came to an end.
Radical Recipes: Women, Work and Cornish Pasties
Sarah Hiorns explains the forgotten histories behind her family’s written, typed, and laminated recipe for Cornish pasties.
Radical Objects: A Photo of Hiro Sumpter
Ulrike Wöhr Greenham unpacks this photo of Hiro Sumpter, and what it reveals about the politics of race and ethnicity at the Royal Air Force Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire, UK.
Radical Objects: The Palestinian Tapestry: A People’s History
The Palestinian History Tapestry aims to tell and preserve the story of the Palestinian people, their livelihoods and traditions, and their struggle under colonial rule and Israeli occupation.
Radical Objects: The Bearded Man and the Bomb
Elena Carter, a project archivist at the Wellcome Library, reflects on her work on the Medact Archive, a collection of materials relating to anti-nuclear campaigning by medical practitioners.
Radical Objects: The London Policeman Songsheet
The London Policeman songsheet, the Miner’s Strike and the Battle of Orgreave by Catherine Robins from the Working Class Movement Library
