You Cannot Stop a River
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.
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Victorian Women’s Tattoos
From initials to butterflies, Nastasha Sartore explores Victorian women's tattoo choices.
Scriptwriting as Historical Research
How can scriptwriting be used to understand early modern legal power? Lucy Clarke uses practice-as-research to explore how arrests performed power.
History Workshop: A South African Movement
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.
Words Are Like Weapons
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.
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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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In Search of Waguih Ghali
Exploring the enigma that was the Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali, author of the classic postcolonial novel Beer in the Snooker Club.
The Siege of Sidney Street
How did a 1911 East End police shootout affect the history of anarchism in London and beyond?
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: Charity Shop Painting
A small charity shop painting illuminates Australia's history of settler colonialism.