How did South African women use culture to build an international anti-apartheid movement? Kebotlhale Motseothata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble
Donald Trump's January 20th Executive Order is a harmful attack on queer and transgender healthcare education, but it will be resisted. Lucy Kelly turns to the legacy of queer activists and allies in the struggle for AIDS education in the…
Since the 1960s, the fascist persona in Japan has shifted towards the feminine. Zachary Fairbrother traces the emergence of a fascist femininity in Japanese pop-culture.
Was the emergence of punk simply a cultural response to the economic uncertainties of 1970s Britain? Matthew Worley suggests a more complex origin story.
Ayahs and Amahs were empire's care-workers, raising the children of colonial families. Julia Laite on a new online exhibition that foregrounds their stories.
This collaboration between History Workshop and illustration students used visual methods to make history accessible, democratic and engaging to the public.
Did medieval states engage in any sort of surveillance of populations based on the collection of their personal data? Trevor Dean and Patricia Skinner ask what we can learn from lists and facial descriptions of police in Italian cities.
How can we creatively utilize historical research to bring the past to life? Josh Allen discusses the importance of using archival sources, oral histories and material culture in a creative fashion to bring myth, metaphor and anecdote back…
What can a gallery comments book tell us about the role radical photography can play in social change? Ruby Rees-Sheridan discusses the Half Moon Photography Workshop Comments Book as a radical object.
What meanings can be attached to divisive symbols, and with what consequences? Isabel Gilbert explores the history of the Confederate flag and its reception, from the Civil War to the Dukes of Hazzard and, eventually, the Capitol Riots.
Long-unpublished photographs taken by journalist Alan Winnington in South Korea are now providing crucial evidence for the 1950 Daejeon Massacre. David Miller explores
Walter Sickert's portrait of Charles Bradlaugh, atheist, republican, and birth control pioneer, weaves together disparate threads of late nineteenth century British radical history. Robert Forder explores.
Can personal photographs become a means to conduct oral histories? Josh Allen explores how the Living Memory Project's methods expand the power of the photograph as a source.
Is Maggi Hambling's 'A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft' attuned to the intellectual accomplishments of the woman it was created for, or to the particular struggles of women in the present? Vic Clarke investigates.
Jane McChrystal surveys Norah Smyth's engrossing photographs: a powerful record of women's Suffrage activism, campaigning and social justice in East London.
