Staging Arrests as Historical Method
What did it mean to arrest someone in early modern England? Lucy Clarke explores through practice-as-research.
What did it mean to arrest someone in early modern England? Lucy Clarke explores through practice-as-research.
Whether loved or loathed, school meals have been a fixture of British childhood for generations. Heather Ellis and Isabelle Carter discuss what the history of school meals can tell us about broader social and cultural change.
What do anticolonial archives tell us about efforts to decolonise the university today? Malek Abdelkhalek reflects on anti-racism and solidarity in and beyond the classroom.
As 2024 draws to a close, the History Workshop editors choose a new selection of Radical Reads - all of which have inspired, emboldened and comforted us during another tumultuous year.
The ICU was a union-cum-protest movement in the north-west of South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Laurence Stewart explores its messages and methods and their relevance today.
Read the latest issue – a special feature on Sri Lanka + articles on food markets & the adventure playground movement.
Read Article "HWJ 97"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.
A small charity shop painting illuminates Australia's history of settler colonialism.