What can a gallery comments book tell us about the role radical photography can play in social change? Ruby Rees-Sheridan discusses the Half Moon Photography Workshop Comments Book as a radical object.
Tag: cultural history
Tina and Bobby: Celebrity, Swinging London and the 1966 World Cup Final
In the last instalment in our History Workshop World Cup series, John Hughson explores England’s World Cup in the context of the “Swinging Sixties”, and the untold stories of the women around the England team.
Navigating the Catalan Crisis: Independence in Context
As the Catalan question becomes one of the most salient contemporary issues in Europe, Andrew Dowling argues that the call for independence is remarkably new, but can only be understood in the context of centuries of dispute between Catalonia and Spain
Goldsmiths Queer History Inaugural Lecture by Professor Alison Oram – 2 November
‘Outing Octavia: Transforming Queer Heritage in Britain’: Goldsmiths Queer History Inaugural Lecture by Professor Alison Oram, 6pm, 2 November 2017, Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths.
Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2017 with Peter Burke – 13 December, QMUL
Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, will deliver the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2017, speaking on ‘Two Diasporas: the place of exiles in the history of knowledge’.
