In the eighteenth century, landlords in the Scottish Highlands began to exert greater control over what their tenants planted and how they planted it. Cat Scothorne shows how these 'reforms' actually disrupted resilient ecological…
Throughout modern history, overseas students have neither been entirely rejected nor genuinely accepted. Nilakshi Das examines this discourse as it shifted over time.
Joseph Abraham explores how colonial anxieties about Black African men shape debates on migration and security to this day.
What entitles a life to a place in the annals of feminist history? Marybeth Hamilton explores the marginalisation of writer and drifter, Valerie Solanas.
Hannah Skoda shows the historically persistent connection between abuse of animals and abuse of intimate partners. Through the ages, abusers have often expressed nostalgia for the 'good old days' of severe patriarchy.
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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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.
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.