History of History Workshop

EVENT: Radical History in a Digital Era

Administrator 26 May 20232 June 2023

Join us on Wednesday 14th June to celebrate thirteen years of History Workshop online and discuss the practice and politics of public history.

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Doing Public History with History Workshop

Administrator 25 January 202325 January 2023

Our contributors reflect on their experiences of working with History Workshop, and the importance of doing public history in a digital era.

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Thirteen years of History Workshop

Andrew Whitehead, Mark Pendleton, Barbara Taylor, Justin Bengry & Hannah Elias 24 January 202324 January 2023

How has History Workshop become a pioneering space for the practice of radical digital history? Editors from across its history reflect.

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Radical History in a Digital Era

Rosa Campbell, Rebecca Mason, Marybeth Hamilton, Elly Robson, Sorcha Thomson & Hannah Cusworth 23 January 202323 January 2023

As History Workshop launches a new website, its editors reflect on the practice and politics of radical history in a digital era.

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Taking Photos of the First Women’s Liberation Conference

Chandan Fraser 13 October 20215 November 2022

What was it like to take photos at Britain's first Women's Liberation conference? Chandan Fraser shares her memories and pictures with us.

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Among the tombs of the dead: Assessing the queer legacy of Alan Bray

Tim Reinke-Williams 11 May 202012 January 2023

"I think I was seeking among the tombs of the dead those lost friends; I would not let them go: and with the guiding hand of scholarship and the eye of a historian, against all expectations I found such friendship there in those monuments"…

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Beyond ‘Misbehaviour’: Sally Alexander in Conversation

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore 11 March 20207 January 2023

As the film 'Misbehaviour' launches this week, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore speaks to women's liberationist and flour-bomber of the Miss World contest, Sally Alexander (played by Kiera Knightly), about history, psychoanalysis and collectivity.

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Alun Howkins: the Land and its Rebels

Becky Taylor 13 June 201921 January 2023

The radical historian Alun Howkins was a founder editor of History Workshop, a singer and historian of folk music, and a chronicler of the land and its people. Becky Taylor explores his work and his legacy.

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Raphael Samuel’s Writings for HWJ: A Bibliography

Administrator 23 March 201617 August 2017

Complete list of Raph Samuel's contributions to History Workshop Journal. Free text links available from 3 May 2016.

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History of History Workshop

Barbara Taylor 22 November 201215 December 2022

History Workshop Online launches an online exhibition of material from the archives of the History Workshop movement, held at Bishopsgate Institute in London, with this introduction by Barbara Taylor.

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An Introduction & Index to the Material

Luke Parks & Anna Davin 5 November 201222 January 2023

An introduction to the History Workshops, which were annual forums held between 1967 and 1994 devoted to the study and development of the ‘history from below.’

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The History Workshop Archives

Luke Parks 5 November 201220 January 2023

Information about the archive collections containing records of the History Workshop movement, held in the library of Bishopsgate Institute in London.

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History Workshop Pamphlets

Luke Parks 4 November 201215 December 2022

History Workshop published a series of 13 pamphlets between 1970 and 1974, written by students at Ruskin College. A number of these started as papers delivered to History Workshops in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are now available…

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History Workshop 1

Luke Parks 7 October 20127 September 2022

Information from the first History Workshop, organised by Raphael Samuel, which took place at Ruskin College on 4th March 1967, entitled 'A Day with the Chartists.'

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History Workshop 2

Luke Parks 7 October 20127 September 2022

History Workshop 2 on 'Education and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century England' took place at Ruskin College on 4 November 1967.

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