Radical Object: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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An Archive of Solidarity
What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.
Radical Object: The Radar Key
The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
Afro-Asian Rhythms
How did global connections shape the sounds of the 1950s and 1960s in the decolonising world? Su Lin Lewis and Ben GJ Thomas explore the relationship between music and internationalism in post-colonial Southeast Asia.
Whose House and Whose Tools?
In the early nineteenth century, the British Empire attempted to reform the institution of slavery. Sascha Auerbach explores how enslaved people used this new political landscape to advocate for legal rights.
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HWJ 100
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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.
YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE
Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
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.
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Radical Feminism and the Politics of Orgasm
How did a radical feminist study of the politics of orgasm become a global best-seller - and then disappear? Rosa Campbell explores the life and legacy of the renegade sexologist Shere Hite.
Queering the Medieval Past
What can we learn by turning a queer lens onto the study of medieval art? Three art historians discuss Spectrum of Desire, an exhibition at New York's Cloisters.
Family, Childhood & Life Course
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: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
Radical Object: The Radar Key
The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
Radical Object: A Song Born of Women’s Protest
How did a protest by a group of women from a Christian anarchist movement inspire a 1960s American folk song? Victoria Peretitskaya explores the origins of the song, the protest and its feminist legacy.