In the years since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Emma-Lee Amponsah reflects on the shared global experience of Black Cultural Memory.
Footballers' Wives and Girlfriends exploded into British pop culture at the turn of the millennium, but what does the WAG tell us about feminism, football and pre-credit crunch Britain? Grace Whorrall-Campbell explores.
As repressive legislation to restrict protest is passed in India and Britain, how can we understand its historical roots and how can this inform activism today?
How can we understand the current wave of strikes as part of a longer struggle around the value of care work? Emily Baughan reflects from the picket line.
This Virtual Special Issue curates History Workshop’s contribution to refugee studies - with a new introduction and 20 articles, free access for six months.
This collaboration between History Workshop and illustration students used visual methods to make history accessible, democratic and engaging to the public.
How might we understand the origins and the impact of current controversies raging in Britain over changing interpretations of British colonial history? Corinne Fowler has close personal experience of those controversies.
Rebecca Turkington explores how the #MeToo movement in China today is made possible through rich histories of Chinese feminists organising inside, alongside and beyond the state.
How does in-access to archives provide opportunities to ask alternative questions about the past? Elisabeth Leake reflects on how personal and professional circumstances ultimately shape the histories we produce.
When does the call for ‘speaking out’ against sexual violence begin to silence victim-survivors? Through reflecting on the #MeToo moment, Allison McKibban argues mainstream Western movements against sexual violence are often insidiously…
How can we understand the true forces behind Russia’s expansionist aspirations today? Hubertus Jahn traces the long ideological roots of Putin's propaganda.
In this piece, Angela Flynn and Mehreen Saigol explore how an oral history project with Syrian refugees can offer a path to a more inclusive society. Prioritising the voices of the Syrian diaspora in the UK, the Syrian Voices project…
In this piece, Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz reflects on the Spanish Indignados movement as a moment of political learning, global solidarity and intellectual discovery.
An open letter from more than sixty scholars in defence of Black British History at Goldsmiths and beyond. Proposed cuts at Goldsmiths threaten the survival of field essential to understand the nation and the world’s past and present.
There is an urgent need for programmes that train people to research Queer History and Black British History. The first masters' programmes in these areas, at Goldsmiths, now face an existential threat due to the College's redundancy…
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…
What does being on the picket line tell us about the office, as a site and symbol of institutional power? How does the camaraderie of the picket contrast to the hierarchies of institutional space? Jonathan Saha on the UCU strike
