What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.
How was the eighteenth-century pursuit of knowledge intertwined with enslavement and empire? Lucy Moynihan on the history of literary institutions in the British colonial world.
This Virtual Special Issue curates History Workshop’s contribution to refugee studies - with a new introduction and 20 articles, free access for six months.
Why in 1970s Scandinavia did feminists run a campaign against Sweden joining the European Economic Community, later called the EU? Hannah Yoken explores.
In 1995, 8000 US feminists went to Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Lisa Levenstein finds that this conference had huge impact on grassroots feminism in the US for years to come.
How has the recent passing of the historian Bernard Bailyn become a new weapon for conservatives attacking critically engaged approaches to history? Asheesh Siddique explores.
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.
A special free-access issue bringing together twenty-four essays published as part of the “Historic Passions” occasional feature in History Workshop Journal.
Fascism is not just the big bang of mass rallies and extreme violence; it is also the creeping fog that incrementally occupies power while obscuring its motives.
Six commentators reflect on the scope, the limits, and the implications of Mazower's argument in his recent book Governing the World, a sweeping and provocative account of the expansive vision of global political cooperation
