As students occupy and vice-chancellors U-turn during a 14-day strike across UK universities against cuts to pensions, 6 lecturers, professors, and undergraduates share strike stories of exploitation, marketisation, and mobilisation.
Tag: radical history
Episode 3: History Acts – Housing in Crisis
In this episode, activists and historians discuss the UK housing crisis in contemporary and historical perspective.
Radical Objects: The Peasants’ Revolt Badge
Stephen Williams recounts the 1981 Peasants’ Revolt on Blackheath in South London, galvanising the left’s resistance to a Tory majority and commemorating the 1381 march.
The Eclectic Hall, Headquarters of Soho Radicalism
This article by Sarah Wise in the most recent issue of History Workshop Journal is freely available only for the month of April, 2017.
Virtual Special Issue: South Asia
A special, free-access compilation of articles on South Asian history from History Workshop Journal
Episode 2: Alison Light on life with Raphael Samuel – A Memoir of a Marriage
In Episode 2 of the History Workshop Podcast, Historian Alison Light offers a unique perspective on the memoir and biography, and the art of writing about lived experiences.
Attacking Art: Militant Suffragism in Birmingham
The disruption of a traditionally middle-class patriarchal space and the outrage provoked by attacks on artworks confirmed to suffragettes that the public and the press cared more for valuable objects than for women undergoing forcible feeding.
