Radical Friendship

Friendship on the ‘Frontier’: Whiteness and Violence in Warrane/Sydney 1788-1800

Rosalind Carr 1 October 202020 December 2022

Warrane, which the British called Sydney, was invaded in 1788. Rosalind Carr shows how just as polite male gallantry in the eighteenth century enabled men to enact assumed gender superiority, in a colonial context friendship and civility…

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Radical Friendship and the Transatlantic Alliance for Native American Sovereignty

Gyorgy Toth 20 August 202029 October 2022

After several dramatic protest confrontations with the U.S. government, by the mid-1970s radical Native American sovereignty activists had begun to regularly travel to Europe to build alliances in order to pressure the United States…

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(Re)Discovering Friends: A Review of Tessa McWatt’s ‘Shame on me’

Barbara Taylor 6 August 202029 October 2022

Barbara Taylor review's Tessa McWatt's 'Shame On Me: an anatomy of race and belonging'. Her review considers the discovery and rediscovery of friends, and how important this process is in order to understand disparities of power and…

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Reading and Writing Friendship: Ruth Slate and Eva Slawson

Barbara Caine 29 July 202020 January 2023

Barbara Caine recounts a powerful friendship between two working women in early 20th century Britain. Eva & Ruth found friendship in their shared love of books - in the words of George Eliot & Charlotte Brontë - but most importantly in…

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‘Treble Hearted’: Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain

Amanda E. Herbert 22 July 202029 October 2022

Early modern women and men possessed complex capacities for friendship, love, and devotion, and the nuances of these partnerships defy and challenge our received assumptions about early modern heterosexual and heterosocial relationships.…

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Friendship and Fieldwork

Hélène Maloigne 16 July 202012 January 2023

Hélène Maloigne shows how archaeology, and especially fieldwork, depends on communication, collaboration and, importantly, friendship.

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Gangs Policing, Deportation, and the Criminalisation of Friendship

Luke de Noronha 8 July 202029 October 2022

What is friendship worth, how might it be valued, and could it count in the context of immigration control? How might valuing friendship contribute to a wider critique of ‘the family’? And how might an appreciation of intimacy,…

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Deliberative Friendship in the 1790s

Mark Philp 1 July 202020 December 2022

The opening stages of the French Revolution helped generate widespread enthusiasm for reform in Britain. It did so especially amongst a group of intellectual and literary women and men who contributed to the emerging ‘revolution…

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‘Safe in your thoughtful arms’: The Radical Friendship of Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg

Rona Cran 24 June 20207 January 2023

Frank O'Hara insisted that poetry should be 'between two persons instead of two pages'. The enduring friendship between Allen Ginsberg and Frank O'Hara reveals the ways in which it was possible to resist the post-war ideals of…

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Striking Solidarity: Friendship and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike

Diarmaid Kelliher 17 June 202029 October 2022

There are many stories of friendship during the miners’ strike. The importance of this was in part the sense – in the middle of extraordinary hostility from multiple directions – that they weren’t alone. The long-term, mutual and…

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Black Women Writers and Radical Friendship

Celeste Henery 11 June 20207 January 2023

'It began with an email of simple praise. A senior scholar reached out to me about my academic writing. Her words were hospitable and soft; and, I responded. Now, almost a year later, we continue to write...' Celeste Henery on the radical…

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Radical Friendship

Laura Forster 10 June 202020 January 2023

This is the first in a series of pieces about Radical Friendship. The feature is intended as an exploration of different configurations of friendship, both intimate and symbolic, and the radical potential of these relationships.

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Radical Friendship

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Friendship on the ‘Frontier’: Whiteness and Violence in Warrane/Sydney 1788-1800

Radical Friendship and the Transatlantic Alliance for Native American Sovereignty

(Re)Discovering Friends: A Review of Tessa McWatt’s ‘Shame on me’

Reading and Writing Friendship: Ruth Slate and Eva Slawson

‘Treble Hearted’: Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain

Friendship and Fieldwork

Gangs Policing, Deportation, and the Criminalisation of Friendship

Deliberative Friendship in the 1790s

‘Safe in your thoughtful arms’: The Radical Friendship of Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg

Striking Solidarity: Friendship and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike

Black Women Writers and Radical Friendship

Radical Friendship