What models of love and support get lost if we cling to a linear model of family life? Leighan Renaud calls for a model of genealogical enquiry rooted in a decolonised, expansive and 'matrifocal' understanding of the Caribbean family.
How can different types of historian work together? Laura King argues that collaboration with family historians has the potential to galvanise academic research.
In the second article of our feature on the radical potential of family history, family historian Mark Crail reflects on the power of collaboration in the history of working-class movements.
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.
Historian Karen Harvey on the hidden symbolism of rabbits and women's bodies in The Favourite, and the real-life case of eighteenth-century mother Mary Toft.
A moving first-hand account of the Siege of Leningrad from a civilian who lived through it, transcribed and introduced by his great nephew, Mikael Kai Zakharov.
