How might a verbose Victorian Parliamentary Report provide a source of radical rural Scottish history? Andy Drummond explores the unlikely story of the 1884 Napier Report.
Tag: Rural History
Radical Object: Potato Planter at Frating Hall Farm
How did Russian anarchism, Teesside socialism and Jewish phenomenology find a home in rural Essex? Ken Worpole delves into the fragile archive of an influential pacifist settlement at Frating Hall farm.
Vagrancy Acts
How can the lives of those historically labelled as vagrants be humanised? Nick Crowson explores creative and archival methods for moving past a fixed point of prosecution, and towards visibility across time and place.
A celebration of the life and works of Professor Alun Howkins (1947-2018)
A one-day conference at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, Saturday 7th December 2019
Alun Howkins: the Land and its Rebels
The radical historian Alun Howkins was a founder editor of History Workshop, a singer and historian of folk music, and a chronicler of the land and its people. Becky Taylor explores his work and his legacy.
