Three of our past and present editors reflect on the ways in which History Workshop Journal has influenced and inspired their practice during their time on the History Workshop collective.
From histories of the French Revolution, to policing in Early Modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight HWJ as a valuable resource across many different classrooms.
History Workshop editors share their reflections on the radical books and films which have compelled them, fascinated them, and moved them throughout 2025.
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin? Natali Moreira investigates this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal.
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.
How did ordinary people in 2000 make sense of oil, floods, and climate change?
David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore the link between fuel protests and flood waters.
When archaeology served empire, what did it see? Benjamin Thomas White explores the history of aerial archaeology and its relationship with colonial surveillance.
