Cannon Fodder: The Criminal Justice System as a Vehicle for Sacrifice
How have militaries depended on the concept of human sacrifice? Alexandra Cox explores how convicts became cannon fodder.
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Illustrating Wages for Housework
Alexandra Motiu explores the crossovers between the Wages for Housework movement and the contemporary art economy through illustration.
Taking over the Asylum
40 years since it was founded, Hel Spandler looks back on the origins of Asylum, the radical mental health magazine.
Antisemitism, Racism and Anti-Racism
How did anti-antisemitism come to be separated from anti-racism? David Feldman explores the history of these concepts.
Disabled People’s Activism in Victorian Britain
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.
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HWJ 97
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Refugees
This Virtual Special Issue curates History Workshop’s contribution to refugee studies - with a new introduction and 20 articles, free access for six months.
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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.
Disabled People’s Activism in Victorian Britain
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.
Forming the Chinese Deaf Community
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.
The Myth of Marginality
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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Pioneering Transgender History
How did transgender history find a foothold in the academy - and what is its future?
An Indian Historian’s Ordinary Life
The novelist Amitava Kumar on historical fiction, history from below, and the role of the writer as witness.
From the archive
Insights into today’s world from our archives.
Archives, Archiving, and Decolonisation
What can two different stories of postcolonial archival practices tell us about memory, history-making, and decolonisation?
Vesta Tilley: Victorian Britain’s Most Famous Drag King
How can we understand historical figures as products of their time? Kerry Lindeque examines the contradictory radicalism of Britain's most famous drag king
Betterment or Backlash? Racism in UK University History Departments
What has changed - for better and for worse - since the publication of the RHS 2018 report on racial inequalities in UK university History departments?
Radical Objects
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.
Radical Objects: Transregional Chinese-language Children’s Magazines
Allan Pang explores the diverse and conflicting depictions of Chinese and world history in transregional children's magazines.
Radical Objects: The Pot and Pan
Matthew Kerry explores how the humble pot and pan have become powerful tools for protestors.
Radical Object: The Dress of a Leeds Suffragette
What can the dress of a suffragette tell us about radical feminist politics and fashion during the early twentieth century? Sophia Lambert explores.