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Privatization and the Moral Origins of the Modern State

By Administrator July 20, 2015 Historians' Watch, Histories of the Present 0 comments

Ann Summers writes a powerful short essay on the moral origins and functions of the modern state, and the need for historians to defend them.

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When does the call for ‘speaking out’ against

When does the call for ‘speaking out’ against sexual violence begin to silence victim-survivors?

Reflecting on the #MeToo moment, Allison McKibban argues that mainstream Western movements against sexual violence are laced with colonial violence.

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Marlene Dietrich's sultry sexuality is the best-re

Marlene Dietrich's sultry sexuality is the best-remembered part of the 1930 film The Blue Angel, yet embedded in the film and its afterlife is a radical history of antifascist resistance.

Marybeth Hamilton explores in the latest piece for the Radical Objects series.

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What can 'The London Women's Handbook' reveal abou

What can 'The London Women's Handbook' reveal about the Greater London Council and radical feminist organising?

Lucy Brownson explores this fascinating radical object from 1986.

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📸 by the author of The London Women’s Handbook, 1986. This is the copy donated to the Glasgow Women’s Library in August 2021.

#womenshistory #feminist #feministhistory #queerhistory

Exploring the historical antecedents to present da

Exploring the historical antecedents to present day questions of race, citizenship and immigration restrictions in the UK,
Sarah Cosemans ties together Enoch Powell's neoliberal ideology and nostalgia for empire in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Where does Putin’s propaganda come from? Why do

Where does Putin’s propaganda come from? Why do so many Russians believe this “reactionary ideological brew”?

Historian Hubertus Jahn @cambridgeuniversity traces its ideological roots in Soviet traditions, the USSR’s collapse and imperialist historical narratives.

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#russia #warinukraine #ukraine #russianhistory #ussr #invasion #propaganda #putin #vladamirputin #imperialism #soviet #soviethistory #coldwar #coldwarhistory

How does age shape the experience of refugees and

How does age shape the experience of refugees and migrants?

How have those in power used age to grant some lives more legitimacy than others?

Historian Antoine Burgard explores in this piece.

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#refugeehistory #refugee #refugees #migration #migrants #migrantstories #immigration #ww2 #ww2history #jewishhistory #migrationisbeautiful #migrationislife #age #aging #childhood #children #historyofchildhood

In 1947 women in Abeokuta, Nigeria staged an influ

In 1947 women in Abeokuta, Nigeria staged an influential anti-colonial revolt.

How did these women understand time, and why does it matter?

Journalist Immaculata Abba explores in this piece. [link in bio]

#nigerianhistory #nigeria #women #womenshistory #africanhistory #africa #tax #economichistory #labourhistory #money #wealth #work #working #workingwomen

What does it mean to engage students with difficul

What does it mean to engage students with difficult, traumatic, messy and complex histories of the British empire and the two world wars? How can we engage with the ‘un-commemorated’, whose names have not appeared on the memorial landscape? Anna Maguire and Diya Gupta reflect on their experiences teaching histories of the 'un-commemorated' in empire and war.

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How has Wedgwood's anti-slavery medallion been rei

How has Wedgwood's anti-slavery medallion been reinterpreted over 200 years later?

@thelondonbrick discusses researching the medallion’s historic radical power and re-making it into an empowering object for the 21st century.

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#blackhistory #historyofslavery

Medallion, by William Hackwood and the Josiah Wedgwood Factory, about 1787, England. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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