This two-day event will bring together academic historians working on family histories and family historians to explore the role of family stories for histories of communities, nations and the world.
Tag: Raphael Samuel History Centre
Public History Workshop: Walking as Radical Historical Practice
How can walking productively inform the work of historical scholarship?
Solitudes, Past and Present – a public seminar series
Solitude is both timeless and historical, a human universal that is understood and experienced differently over time. These seminar meetings examine the changing contours of solitude from antiquity to the present.
Family History Workshop Launch: Victoria Haskins, ‘Family Histories and the Memories of Nations’ – 2 November, Birkbeck
Launch event for the new Family History Workshop, a new initiative by the Raphael Samuel History Centre: Victoria Haskins, ‘Stories my great-grandmother didn’t tell me, Or, family histories and the memories of nations’.
Education Activism Ethics: histories, strategies, economies
Education Activism Ethics explores ways of doing history which move beyond the confines of the academy and engage wider public audiences, and the challenges such approaches entail both in practical and theoretical terms.
Radical Heritage, Art & Culture: The Work of a Thousand Different Hands
How can radical histories be shared with people from all walks of life, and how can they be made more accessible and both involve and reach radical communities?
Can History be Radical?
The Radical Histories / Histories of Radicalism conference asks ‘where’ and ‘why’ and ‘how’ radical history can take place in neo-liberal times?
