A Guide to Action
What can we learn from the lives and legacies of Black radical women? Tionne Alliyah Parris considers how the transnational activism of Claudia Jones, Vicki Garvin and Louise Thompson Patterson offers us a guide to action now.
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‘Freelance’ Underground Operatives: Forgotten Liberators in South Africa
What role did 'freelance' underground operatives play in defeating apartheid in South Africa? Tshepo Moloi on a mother and daughter who crossed borders and languages
Women in the British Union of Fascists
Why are women drawn to fascist ideologies and movements? The timely rediscovery of Martin Durham's talk - given to History Workshop in 1983, looking back to the 1930s - speaks to pressing questions today.
Xenophobia, Anti-Communism and the Making of Contemporary Chineseness
Adrian Kwong traces the paradox of the 'model minority' narrative in postwar discourses of Chineseness in the global diaspora.
Temporal Imprecision
Esther McManus explores how comics can narrate multiple histories and foster 'temporal imprecision' in archival research.
History Workshop Journal
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HWJ 98
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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
Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month
Queer Joy: Taking Up Space
Ranging from 1970s New York to Ru Paul's Drag Race UK, this episode explores queer creativity and the importance of taking up space.
The Slippery History of the Dental Dam
As an object, the dental dam awkwardly straddles the history of AIDS activism and queer sexuality, acting as an assertion that sex doesn’t require the presence of a penis to be real sex, while acknowledging simultaneously that such sex…
“Registers of eunuchs” in colonial India
Jessica Hinchy writes on how colonial officials sought to eliminate and 'fix' the gender identity of 'Hijras', who are often termed 'transgender', and the contemporary resonance of this process.
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.