Between 1930 and 1931, forty-seven people died on a remote fishing station in the Indian Ocean. Andy Drummond examines what their lives and deaths reveal about capitalism and accountability in France's colonial empire.
Why was a Māori sweet potato introduced to Nigeria - and what can it tell us about the nature of colonial rule? James Akpu explores the global history of the kūmara.
How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
Read the latest issue of History Workshop Journal - celebrating the journal's 100th issue on its 50th anniversary.
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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"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.
Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
Sabine Hanke examines how Lakota performers challenged and resisted the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
Chin Kar Yern explores how hawkers have shaped the landscape of hunger in Malaysia.
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Family, Childhood & Life Course
How might playgrounds form part of a spatial justice movement?
How have a small - and declining - group of nuns built grassroots power with immigrant families in East Harlem?
Michaela Benson unpacks the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa, and how it has contributed to redrawing humanitarian protection and migration policy after Brexit.
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.
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.
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.
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.