As its people flee Ukraine following Russia's invasion, Jo Laycock offers a historical framework through which to understand displacements from and in Ukraine. Can exploring longer trajectories of displacement help refugees make sense of…
This piece is part of HWO's feature on ‘Apocalypse Then and Now’. The feature brings together radical reflections and historic perspectives on catastrophe and calamity. How have crises (both real and imagined), and responses to them,…
Book your tickets now for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture. This year, Yasmin Khan speaks on 'Women On The Frontline Of Empire': a feminist history of the Second World War - 7 March 2019 at Queen Mary University of London
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.
The publication of a telling literary depiction of the most bitter period in Kashmir's insurgency twenty years ago prompts Andrew Whitehead to consider the value to historians of fictional accounts of conflict.