Virtual Special Issue: Revolutions

By Rebecca Spang November 27, 2019 Virtual Special Issue 0 comments

“Radicals have planned them and protagonists have nearly always tried to steer them, but real revolutions nonetheless involve a considerable element of surprise.” Rebecca Spang introduces the new Virtual Special Issue of HWJ, on revolutions.

“Bread in those days was like gold!” A survivor’s account of the Siege of Leningrad

By Mikael Kai Zakharov November 28, 2018 History Workshop Online 0 comments

A moving first-hand account of the Siege of Leningrad from a civilian who lived through it, transcribed and introduced by his great nephew, Mikael Kai Zakharov.

Testing Secret Agents: A Century of Human Experimentation at Porton Down

By Ulf Schmidt and David Peace September 26, 2018 Historians' Watch, Histories of the Present 0 comments

In the context of the ongoing fallout of the Salisbury nerve attack, Ulf Schmidt & David Peace explore the troubling history of the British state’s relationship with chemical weapons and secret science.

Apathy, hooliganism, and bleak provincial towns: Russia 2018 and England 1966

By Tosh Warwick June 8, 2018 Histories of the Present, History Workshop World Cup 0 comments

In the first of our History Workshop World Cup series, Tosh Warwick compares the build-up to Russia 2018 with England’s own hosting of the games in 1966.

Radical Books: Alexander Radishchev, ‘Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow’ (1790)

By Jennifer Keating February 2, 2018 Radical Books 0 comments

The ‘most notorious book in Russian history’: Jennifer Keating on Alexander Radishchev’s radical critique of autocracy, banned by Catherine the Great over a century before the Russian Revolution.

Autocracy in America won’t come with jackboots

By Stephen Heathorn February 3, 2017 Historians' Watch, Histories of the Present 0 comments

Stephen Heathorn explores what the rise of the far right, authoritarianism and fascism looks like in the 21st century, as opposed to the 1930s.

Radical Objects: Greetings & Goodwill Messages from Anglo-Jewry to Soviet Jewry

By Administrator August 25, 2012 Radical Objects 2 comments

A book published in 1944 with the aim to solicit donations to the Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia, and to place on record the admiration of the authors for the heroic efforts of the Soviet forces in the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe