With Eurovision 2024 facing renewed calls for boycott, Catherine Baker reflects on the 'radical' history of the song contest - and the alternatives that might shape its future.
How were solidarities negotiated in the making of a global human rights movement? The experience of Mongo Beti in Amnesty International reveals some of the barriers in play.
What might the trip of Birgitta Dahl to the meet Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC liberation movement reveal about the motivations of transnational solidarity in the era of decolonisation?
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.
May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s. But how did her work across borders exemplify cosmopolitanism from below? Tiffany N. Florvil explores the life and networks of a visionary.
Crimea is at the centre of the current Russo-Ukrainian war, but with its two-thousand-year history, ownership is complicated. Christian Raffensperger explores.
What can early twentieth-century debates about renewables tell us about energy policy today? Tobias Silseth argues that a focus on 'efficiency' and 'acceleration' has often led to an expansion of fossil-fuel use.
How can early modern histories of sexual violence in war challenge persistent ideas that such crimes are inevitable and justice out of reach? Tom Hamilton explores
Julie Hardwick, Marybeth Hamilton, Kate Gibson, Sarah Roddy, Orsi Husz, Andrew Popp & Alexia Yates
What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and describe the economic past?
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.
A simple prosthetic hand demonstrates care for the physically impaired in early medieval Europe, but does it also say something about the political nature of that care?
Wikipedia: a digital wasteland of opinionated cesspits or a glorious repository of knowledge? Andy Drummond explores how one Wikipedia article turned into Central European battlefield.
How did young couples negotiate sexual activity and its reproductive consequences in Old Regime France? Julie Hardwick discusses the real and perceived risks and uncertainties of courtship, arguing that communities ultimately sought to…
Marlene Dietrich's sultry sexuality is the best-remembered part of the 1930 film The Blue Angel, yet embedded in the film and its afterlife is a radical history of antifascist resistance. Marybeth Hamilton explores.
How can we understand the true forces behind Russia’s expansionist aspirations today? Hubertus Jahn traces the long ideological roots of Putin's propaganda.
