Alice Billington explores a historical culture of secrecy that still informs ideas about menstruation today
Tag: gender
Where’s the power in a union and why is it important?
How are decisions made in a union? Jack Saunders looks at workplace organisation in the NHS and the motor industry in the post-war period, and offers lessons for the present day.
Radical Books: ‘Brighton Trans*formed’ (2014), E. J. Scott, Maeve Devine et al
Matt Cook, History Workshop Journal editor and professor of modern history at Birkbeck, on a moving collection of oral histories gathered from people living in the city of Brighton and Hove, who identify in various ways as trans.
Virtual Special Issue: South Asia
A special, free-access compilation of articles on South Asian history from History Workshop Journal
The Pacifist Handkerchief
The pacifist handkerchief invites reflections on contested memories in modern Japanese history.
What is the history of sexuality?
‘What is the History of Sexuality?’ at Birkbeck brought together doctoral students from across the world, and was an opportunity for their innovative research to be critiqued and developed through discussion with scholars in the field.
History Workshop Journal Virtual Special Issue: Early Modern Gender Histories
This, the first in a series of virtual special issues, makes freely available some of the outstanding work on women and gender in the period c.1500-1700 published by History Workshop Journal over the nearly forty years of our history.
