
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.
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.
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
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.
Adrian Kwong traces the paradox of the 'model minority' narrative in postwar discourses of Chineseness in the global diaspora.
Esther McManus explores how comics can narrate multiple histories and foster 'temporal imprecision' in archival research.
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Read Article "HWJ 98"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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Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month
Ranging from 1970s New York to Ru Paul's Drag Race UK, this episode explores queer creativity and the importance of taking up space.
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…
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.
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.
If you go down to the Thames today, you're sure of a big surprise - printer's type. Peter Wollweber unpacks its radical history.
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.