During the Kenya Emergency, photography became a vital tool for psychological warfare. Lauren Brown explores how the colonial state used violent images to demonise African insurgents.
What are borderlands and how do they shape questions of identity and belonging? Annika Bärwald explores the history of Hamburg's port and the people who passed through it.
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.
Why was a twentieth-century doctor deeply involved in the radical birth control movement so interested in an eighteenth-century reproductive scandal? Haohao Zhang explores.
This collaborative conversation, facilitated by Kate Dossett and Simon Popple, reflects on the role of emotions in archives and what institutions can do to support wellbeing in engaged research.
Today's 'sleepmaxxers' are part of a long and rich historical tradition dating back hundreds of years. Sasha Handley and Holly Fletcher discuss the importance of sleeping well in early modern England.
What can a Kazakh anti-nuclear movement reveal about forms of peace and internationalism forged from both above and below? Kamila Smagulova on the Nevada-Semipalatinsk campaign.
What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan on the Women's Christian College in colonial India.
What can we learn about queer lives and queer history from the call logs of the UK's first LGBTQ+ helpline? Tash Walker and Adam Zmith on their award-winning podcast The Log Books.
How did a group of authors, artists musicians and aristocrats in Edwardian Chelsea use the structures of marriage, class and empire to subvert the heterosexual norm and form a network of queer non-monogamy?
How can we end ageism? By understanding how the Victorians invented it. Helen Kingstone examines the work of nineteenth-century Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant.
What should we make of the gendered cultural legacies of revolutionary women? Clara Vlessing considers the lives and afterlives of anarchists Emma Goldman and Louise Michel.
