How do century-old debates about the "servant problem" reverberate through today's political struggles around migration, labour, exploitation, and race? Maia Silber explores.
Why in 1970s Scandinavia did feminists run a campaign against Sweden joining the European Economic Community, later called the EU? Hannah Yoken explores.
How does age shape the experience of refugeedom and migration? How have power structures used age, a supposedly objective measurement of worthiness and vulnerability, to grant some lives more legitimacy than others? Antoine Burgard…
The modern asylum process imposes upon refugees a requirement to recount their experiences to officials to determine their eligibility. Peter Gatrell considers what is at stake in analysing the surviving archival record.
Family history is in robust health, after years in the scholarly wilderness. Sophie Scott-Brown looks at new horizons for this rich seam of history, colliding private with public and biology with culture in provocative ways
What might be the links - real and metaphorical - between Anne Frank's story of exile and persecution and the work of C.S Lewis? Margaret Reynolds explores.
History Workshop Journal (HWJ) and History Workshop Online (HWO) are seeking to appoint two early career historians as Editorial Fellows in the academic year 2021-22. Closing date 2 August.
The NHS has long relied on immigrant personnel, and restrictions to migration have an impact on its staffing. In the third piece for the Moving People feature, Anna Caceres writes about the fallacy of the 'good' migrant narrative.
This is the first piece in a series titled Moving People. In exploring how people on the move are labelled, remembered, and constrained, it offers new understandings of the experiences (and inconsistencies) underpinning issues of…
It is often in the silence, in the space left by what is not said, that we see the true shape of British anti-blackness, argues Anna Caceres in her analysis of the discourse around the NHS and migrant workers.
The international community is facing numerous migration crises, much like those that drove the development of international refugee rights and protections in the twentieth century. But instead of embracing and strengthening legal…
Tensions about the rights of native and foreign-born workers in Britain, and attempts to deal with them, are not new but have been the subject of public debate for centuries. Even during the later Middle Ages, the influx of alien workers…
Call for Papers: Environmental History Workshop 2019 on 'Flows' will take place at Northumbria University on 13 September 2019. Deadline for paper proposals 18 March.
The Stansted 15, peaceful protesters who grounded a deportation charter flight have been convicted of terror-related charges. This disproportionate response by the British state must be situated within a wave of criminalisation and…
In an exploration of Patty Ortiz's art with DACA migrants to the US, Irina Popescu argues that performance art can encourage empathy and political responsibility.
While drawing direct parallels to the modern day might be misleading, present-day Germany’s migration debates shares strong underlying themes with the fall of East Germany. The impact of push and pull factors, as well as the role that…
Citizenship 'stripping' laws have expanded the idea of a failed citizen, a boundary shaped by racialised and Islamophobic 'moral panic'. May Robson examines what it means to be an illegal immigrant in Britain.
As far right populism resurges in Europe, Neil Gregor reflects on what the British public could learn from an exhibition on right wing extremism in Germany since 1945
Eva Johanna Holmberg - a historian who studies travellers crossing borders in the seventeenth century - on being threatened with deportation as a European academic in the UK in 2017
How are museums responding to the refugee crisis in Europe? Bryan Sitch on Manchester Museum's acquisition & display of a refugee's life jacket from the Greek island of Lesvos.
Julia McClure reviews Jerry Brotton's new book This Orient Isle, Elizabethan England and the Islamic World showing how connections between Elizabethan England and the Islamic world were inscribed in English cultures and fashions.
More about ‘On the Move’, a Raphael Samuel History Centre initiative on youth and migration, hosted by the History Department at University College London and funded by an Innovation Seed Fund for outreach.
