The Radical Potential of Teach Outs

By Katherine Weikert March 12, 2020 Histories of the Present 1 comment

Teach outs help us remember what a university could be: Katherine Weikert on the value of teach outs in strike action.

Strike Syllabus

By Rachel Moss and Peter Jones March 4, 2020 Features, Radical Books 1 comment

History Workshop’s crowd-sourced Strike Syllabus offers texts to inspire and galvanise, to stir righteous anger or provide necessary solace.

Banner Tales: material culture and the making of solidarity

By David Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher July 1, 2019 Histories of the Present 1 comment

Banner Tales is a collaboration between geographers and Glasgow Museums staff. The project has encouraged reflection on the relationship between material cultures and the makings of solidarity.

Radical Objects: Casts of Joseph Arch’s Hands

By Administrator July 4, 2013 Radical Objects 3 comments

An exploration of the plaster casts of the first labouring man to enter Parliament, and founder of the National Agricultural Labourer’s Union, Joseph Arch, written by Karen Sayer

Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford

By Hilda Kean October 4, 2012 Features 2 comments

While some valuable material is now saved from acts of philistinism the destruction of Ruskin’s past has not yet finished.