Podcasts

Useful Knowledge

Marybeth Hamilton, Jonny Matfin, Ciarán O'Donohue & Joanna Bourke 23 February 202219 January 2023

How has the concept of "useful knowledge" shaped the 200-year history of Birkbeck College London - and of adult education more generally?

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Moving Stories

Julia Laite 26 January 202219 January 2023

How can the stories of families illuminate the histories of migrations?

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Knowing Nature

Elly Robson, Vinita Damodaran & Harriet Ritvo 6 December 202119 January 2023

How do we know nature and how has this been political, in the past and today?

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Ridley Road

May Robson 25 November 202119 January 2023

In this episode of the History Workshop Podcast, we hear an oral history of Ridley Road Market, in east London.

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Daring to Hope: Sheila Rowbotham and 1970s women’s liberation

Marybeth Hamilton & Sheila Rowbotham 4 November 202119 January 2023

Sheila Rowbotham's new memoir Daring to Hope chronicles her life in the Seventies, as a pioneering socialist feminist writer, historian, and activist.

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Black Feminisms

Rosa Campbell, Stella Dadzie & Chardine Stone Taylor 28 October 202119 January 2023

How can black feminism lead to our collective liberation?

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Black British Histories

Marybeth Hamilton, Meleisa Ono-George, Caroline Bressey & Sadiah Qureshi 14 October 202119 January 2023

How has the writing of Black British histories functioned as both a form of historical analysis and a voice of radical oppositional politics?

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Homelessness, Theatre and History Making

Peter Jones & Adrian Jackson 7 October 202119 January 2023

How can the power and invention of Forum Theatre inform radical histories of oppressed groups, such as the homeless?

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Difficult Stories and Ethical Dilemmas in Family History

Julia Laite 30 September 202119 January 2023

What are we doing when we research and tell stories of families, whether other peoples' families or our own?

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Transnational Solidarities

Ria Kapoor, Lydia Walker & Su Lin Lewis 10 September 202119 January 2023

What are transnational solidarities and how do they expand our understanding of interactions beyond the nation state?

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In this year's Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture, Hazel Carby uses the lens of her own family history to explore Imperial Sexual Economies. Listen now on the latest episode of the History Workshop Podcast.

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Stories of Sex Trafficking

Marybeth Hamilton & Julia Laite 7 July 202120 January 2023

Julia Laite discusses her book The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: at once an absorbing historical detective story that puts human faces on the global history of sex trafficking and a riveting meditation on the politics of storytelling.

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Writing the History of AIDS Activism

Marybeth Hamilton & Sarah Schulman 24 June 202120 January 2023

How can we write the history of AIDS activism so that all stories are equally important?

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Creating Refugee Archives

Peter Gatrell, Ria Kapoor, Paul Dudman, Heather Faulkner & Mezna Qato 1 June 202120 January 2023

How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?

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Writing Women’s Lives & History

Christopher Kissane & Doireann ní Ghríofa 8 March 202120 January 2023

Christopher Kissane speaks to the Irish poet Doireann ní Ghríofa about writing women's lives and history in her book, "A Ghost in the Throat".

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Queer Education: Section 28 and its Legacies

Elly Robson, Syeda Ali & Nazmia Jamal 25 February 202120 January 2023

Elly Robson is joined by Nazmia Jamal and Syeda Ali to discuss queer education: the violent silence of Section 28, how it was resisted, and what lessons we can draw from it today.

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Queer Lives: Public History and the Queer Archive

E-J Scott, Ajamu X & Laura Forster 18 February 202120 January 2023

Laura Forster is joined by Ajamu X and E-J Scott to discuss public history, the queer archive, and what it means to queer the museum.

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AIDS and the Politics of Grief

Marybeth Hamilton, Matt Cook & Debra Levine 13 February 202120 January 2023

What lessons does the history of AIDS activism hold as we navigate the COVID pandemic?

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Queer Joy: Taking Up Space

Laura Forster, Tim Other, Fiona Anderson & ShayShay 4 February 202120 January 2023

Ranging from 1970s New York to Ru Paul's Drag Race UK, this episode explores queer creativity and the importance of taking up space.

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An Age of Walls?

Laura Forster & Paul Betts 14 September 202020 January 2023

How might we think about the history of walls, real and metaphorical, and their place in today's political rhetoric?

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Dan Chatterton’s London

Andrew Whitehead 29 June 202020 January 2023

Walk in the footsteps of Dan Chatterton, who was - in his own words 'one of the revolutionary type of workers for political and social advancement'.

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Displaying Black British History: The Krios of Sierra Leone

Melissa Bennett & Iyamide Thomas 29 January 202020 January 2023

How might museum exhibitions convey the complex dynamics of black British history?

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History, trauma, and restorative justice

Marybeth Hamilton, Katherine O’Donnell & Claire McGettrick 13 November 201920 January 2023

How might historical research into past abuse serve the ends of restorative justice?

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Concentration camps and historical analogies

Marybeth Hamilton & Dan Stone 9 October 201920 January 2023

Can the migrant detention centres employed by the Trump administration on the US/Mexico border be legitimately labelled “concentration camps”?

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The Violence of Empire

Aditya Ramesh & Kim Wagner 2 October 201920 January 2023

How was violence essential to sustaining the British Empire, and why is teaching this imperative in today's world?

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Sex, politics, and society

Marybeth Hamilton & Jeffrey Weeks 26 June 201920 January 2023

How was our understanding of sexuality in history transformed by the liberation movements of the late twentieth century and by the challenge of the AIDS epidemic?

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Populism, the Left, and Progressive Resistance

Marybeth Hamilton & D D Guttenplan 30 May 201920 January 2023

What is the role of populism in shaping resistance to Trump and Trumpism, and what are the historical antecedents?

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The Violence of Empire

Aditya Ramesh & Kim Wagner 8 May 201920 January 2023

How was violence essential to sustaining the British Empire, and why is teaching this imperative in today's world?

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Women On The Frontline Of Empire

Yasmin Khan 17 April 201920 January 2023

Yasmin Khan explores some of the most marginal and forgotten voices in British Second World War history.

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The Ballads of Peterloo

Kate Gibson, Alison Morgan & Brian Peters and Pete Coe 2 April 201920 January 2023

We explore the radical legacy of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 by hearing from ballad experts and folk musicians.

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Useful Knowledge

Moving Stories

Knowing Nature

Ridley Road

Daring to Hope: Sheila Rowbotham and 1970s women’s liberation

Black Feminisms

Black British Histories

Homelessness, Theatre and History Making

Difficult Stories and Ethical Dilemmas in Family History

Transnational Solidarities

Imperial Sexual Economies

Stories of Sex Trafficking

Writing the History of AIDS Activism

Creating Refugee Archives

Writing Women’s Lives & History

Queer Education: Section 28 and its Legacies

Queer Lives: Public History and the Queer Archive

AIDS and the Politics of Grief

Queer Joy: Taking Up Space

An Age of Walls?

Dan Chatterton’s London

Displaying Black British History: The Krios of Sierra Leone

History, trauma, and restorative justice

Concentration camps and historical analogies

The Violence of Empire

Sex, politics, and society

Populism, the Left, and Progressive Resistance

The Violence of Empire

Women On The Frontline Of Empire

The Ballads of Peterloo