Kieran Connell takes us through his personal journey on what brought him to researching Handsworth, an inner city locality in Birmingham, and what it might tell us about multiculturalism in modern Britain.
Tag: education
Family historians, collaboration and a new history from below methodology – or, sharing history over a cup of tea
How can different types of historian work together? Laura King argues that collaboration with family historians has the potential to galvanise academic research.
How do Family Historians Work with Memory?
Not just nostalgia: family historians are at the forefront of challenges to traditional histories that are ‘gendered, classed, raced and heteronormative’, argues public historian Tanya Evans.
Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019 Programme
A packed programme for Spring 2019 with the Psychoanalysis and History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research.
Remembering 1968: The Campus of the Anti-University of London
Oisín Wall on the Anti-University at 49 Rivington Street for our Remembering 1968 feature.
Remembering 1968: The Hackney Centerprise Co-operative
An oral history of the Centreprise co-operative has captured the feelings, emotions, experiences and dilemmas of the people who created this social experiment
Picket Line Perspectives: Historians on the Pensions Strike
On day five of a fourteen day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, four historians share reflections from the picket lines on solidarity, precarity, and the marketisation of education.
