Performing the Exotic and Lakota Resistance
Sabine Hanke examines how Lakota performers challenged and resisted the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
Home
The Case of the Missing Romani American History
How does one start a new field of history? Ann Ostendorf considers how we can solve the case of the missing field of Romani American history.
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
The Shape of Hunger
Chin Kar Yern explores how hawkers have shaped the landscape of hunger in Malaysia.
Parading Memories
How does the Irish community of Bristol use parades and processions to celebrate their history?
History Workshop Journal
Latest Issue
HWJ 99
Read the latest issue of History Workshop Journal – with articles from medieval lordship to trans feminism.
Read Article "HWJ 99"Latest Virtual Issue
The New Left
In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left
Read Article "The New Left"From Place to Place
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering' from place to place? This series explore itinerance in histories of space, movement and labour, and how historians might imagine news ways of researching itinerantly.
Performing the Exotic and Lakota Resistance
Sabine Hanke examines how Lakota performers challenged and resisted the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
The Shape of Hunger
Chin Kar Yern explores how hawkers have shaped the landscape of hunger in Malaysia.
The Swamp and the Gum Tree
Meg Parsons and Karen Fisher on how Pākehā settlers weaponised smell in the colonisation of Māori swamp-land.
History Workshop Podcast
Listen to our latest episodes on:
Soundcloud,
Apple Podcasts,
Stitcher or
Spotify
Can A Rock Band Make History?
A Glasgow rock band, The Tenementals, explore what it means to create radical history through music.
The 1984 Islington Nursery Strike
Why did 155 nursery workers employed by London's Islington Council go on strike in 1984 - and why has their story been forgotten?
Makeshift Utopias
How might playgrounds form part of a spatial justice movement?
Bonds of Mutuality in East Harlem
How have a small - and declining - group of nuns built grassroots power with immigrant families in East Harlem?
Britain’s ‘Bespoke’ Borders
Michaela Benson unpacks the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa, and how it has contributed to redrawing humanitarian protection and migration policy after Brexit.
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 Object: Printer’s Type from the Thames Foreshore
If you go down to the Thames today, you're sure of a big surprise - printer's type. Peter Wollweber unpacks its radical history.
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.