History Workshop editors share their reflections on the radical books and films which have compelled them, fascinated them, and moved them throughout 2025.
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
When archaeology served empire, what did it see? Benjamin Thomas White explores the history of aerial archaeology and its relationship with colonial surveillance.
How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a
new History Workshop series on Indigenous historical methods.
Our understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States. Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the significance of inventing Japanese Braille.
What happens when we challenge the Eurocentric narrative that has dominated Chinese Deaf history? Shu Wan explores the early history of the Deaf community in China.
Galle Face Green is one of the most important public spaces in Colombo. Lara Wijesuriya traces how the public and the state have shaped Galle Face Green since independence.
We are seeking to appoint one editorial fellow in 2024 - with specialism in histories of Africa, South-East Asia or the Middle East, including diasporic perspectives.
In postcolonial Malaysia, what does it mean to reconstruct histories through streetscapes? Marie Ngiam considers the complex racial politics at play in the decolonisation of Malaysia's urban landscape.
