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.
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
How did ordinary people in 2000 make sense of oil, floods, and climate change?
David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore the link between fuel protests and flood waters.
How did making banners help women to express themselves and support one another at Greenham Common Peace Camp? Maisie Jepson explores this creative process and explains why motherhood was such a prominent theme.
Eleanor Callaghan examines how Bristol's local authorities and museum curators turned a controversial monument into an opportunity for inclusive public history.
Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech follows a well-trodden path for Labour leaders. Kieran Connell examines how far-right rhetoric on immigration has been mainstreamed in British politics.
How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a
new History Workshop series on Indigenous historical methods.
In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective that arose in its aftermath.
Lucy Noakes on how the crisis in UK higher education is impacting history and historians, and how the Royal Historical Society can advocate for our discipline.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike (1984-85). Laura King traces a story of solidarity and friendship in the archives of art collective Jubilee Arts, and the archives of her family.
