This virtual special issue of History Workshop Journal tells the histories of states in their interlocking national, international, local, and archival dimensions, and as political and legal contestations of sovereign power.
Tag: Suffrage
A Game of One’s Own: Women’s Football in Victorian Britain
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Tim Tate explores early attempts to establish women’s football as an international sport.
We Choose Who Lives Forever: A Monument to Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering advocate for human rights and philosopher. Why isn’t she better remembered?
Radical Books: ‘An Agreement of the People’ (1647)
Debated in the 1647 Putney Debates, in the wake of the first English Civil War, the ‘Agreement of the People’ proposed radical democratic, legal and religious reforms; most significantly a written constitution between the people and their representatives.
Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary
The discovery of 60 volumes of diaries belonging to suffrage society activist Kate Parry Frye, has allowed author Elizabeth Crawford to shine new light on the work of New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage during the period 1911 to 1915