The History Workshop in Johannesburg emerged from intersecting impulses that coursed through the academy and society in South Africa and globally in the 1970s and 1980s. Noor Nieftagodien on its history and present.
How have harmful words been used to stigmatise those directly affected by Ireland's institutional history? This piece reflects on the power of language in relation to Irish mother and baby homes.
How have militaries depended on the concept of human sacrifice? Alexandra Cox explores how convicts became cannon fodder.
Alexandra Motiu explores the crossovers between the Wages for Housework movement and the contemporary art economy through illustration.
40 years since it was founded, Hel Spandler looks back on the origins of Asylum, the radical mental health magazine.
Read the latest issue – a special feature on Sri Lanka + articles on food markets & the adventure playground movement.
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This Virtual Special Issue curates History Workshop’s contribution to refugee studies - with a new introduction and 20 articles, free access for six months.
Read Article "Refugees"How can we reimagine disability as more than just a medical identity? This series explores disabled people’s history in relation to social, political, cultural, and economic agency.
Long before the modern disabled people's movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. David Turner reflects on the development of disabled people's activism in Victorian Britain.
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.
How did people with learning disabilities live before the asylum? Simon Jarrett interrogates the assumption that this community has always been hidden from mainstream society.
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Insights into today’s world from our archives.
What can two different stories of postcolonial archival practices tell us about memory, history-making, and decolonisation?
How can we understand historical figures as products of their time? Kerry Lindeque examines the contradictory radicalism of Britain's most famous drag king
What has changed - for better and for worse - since the publication of the RHS 2018 report on racial inequalities in UK university History departments?
Whether letters, food or ephemera, material objects have acted as radical agents in history. Here, historians, archivists and activists unpack stories of solidarity and everyday lives.
Allan Pang explores the diverse and conflicting depictions of Chinese and world history in transregional children's magazines.
Matthew Kerry explores how the humble pot and pan have become powerful tools for protestors.
What can the dress of a suffragette tell us about radical feminist politics and fashion during the early twentieth century? Sophia Lambert explores.