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AIDS and the Politics of Grief

By Marybeth Hamilton February 13, 2021 History Workshop Podcast 0 comments

What lessons does the history of AIDS activism hold as we navigate the COVID pandemic? Matt Cook and Debra Levine join Marybeth Hamilton in discussion for the History Workshop podcast.

Birmingham Revolutions: Protest in the Museum

By Emma McMullen March 3, 2020 Features, Local History 0 comments

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery holds hand-painted banners from the first political union in Britain founded in the 1820s, a plaque made from plaster scraped from the walls of Wormwood Scrubs by a First World War conscientious objector and over 100 badges collected by a local supporter of the miners’ strikes to name a few items, and this exhibition is presenting this hidden collection to the public in many cases for the first time.

Walking as radical history on the East End Women’s Museum Trail

By Charlotte Tomlinson January 20, 2020 Historians' Watch, History at Large 0 comments

What does the heritage trail format offer to the communication of radical histories? Charlotte Tomlinson introduces the East End Women’s Museum’s (EEWM) Brilliant Women of Whitechapel, Bow and Barking Heritage Trail, which explores stories of ‘ordinary yet extraordinary’ women who have lived in East London.

Gay Health Action and the fight against AIDS in 1980s Ireland

By James Grannell July 24, 2019 Histories of the Present 1 comment

James Grannell explores the important role that Gay Health Action played in demystifying information about HIV and AIDS prevention in 1980s Ireland. GHA’s matter-of-fact publications sought to ‘meet people where they were’.

Remembering Red Clydeside: whose memory is it anyway?

By Ewan Gibbs and Henry Bell June 19, 2019 Histories of the Present 0 comments

On Sunday 5th May 2019, Glasgow’s annual May Day demonstration marked the final and largest centenary event commemorating the events of 1919. Commemoration of the Battle of George Square has interested diverse groups of researchers, activists and institutions. Its politics are negotiated between conflicting claims grounded in assertions of authenticity, familial connection and intellectual authority. Respect for tradition meets the desire to create a ‘usable past’ fit for the second decade of the 21st century. How do these conflicting ideologies wrestle to find meaning and relevance in the city’s radical past?