Listen to leading scholars, activists and writers talk about the practice of history and reflect on the social forces that are changing our world.
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How did trans history find a foothold in the academy - and what is its future? Susan Stryker discusses with Claire Potter on this episode of the Why Now podcast.History Workshop による
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The novelist Amitava Kumar on history, fiction, India, and ordinary lives.History Workshop による
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How has modern queer life been affected by its encounters with psychiatric power?History Workshop による
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How can we investigate disability history and heritage?History Workshop による
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Natasha Walter on her mother's life of activism and resistance.History Workshop による
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What is the future of common spaces and community gathering spots in the UK? At a time when so many spaces that once were shared are now either derelict or in private hands, when it can be difficult to find somewhere to gather with friends without buying a latte in order to do so, how might the future be different? How might we rethink our relation…
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What possibilities do podcasts offer as vehicles for radical history? Albert Scharenberg of the Rosalux History podcast discusses.History Workshop による
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How might we translate the French Revolution in ways that open it up to the 21st century?History Workshop による
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A new collection of Raphael Samuel's essays illuminates 19th century Britain and the politics of "people's history".History Workshop による
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What does the accidental death of an anarchist in London in 1894 tell us about forgotten histories of direct action?History Workshop による
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What can two different stories of postcolonial archival practices tell us about memory, history-making, and decolonisation?History Workshop による
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What can a single image of a lone female protestor tell us about the "Battle of Grosvenor Square" in 1968?History Workshop による
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What can we learn from a 45-year-old Swedish manifesto that helped inspire the movement for workers' history?History Workshop による
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The political climate greeting refugees to the UK is no longer simply hostile - it is expulsive. David Herd explores.History Workshop による
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What lessons might the past hold for migrants seeking childcare in the UK but having No Recourse to Public Funds?History Workshop による
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Who do you think of when you hear the phrase “revolutionary women”? If you cast your mind back to the movers and shakers of the revolutions that marked the 20th century, what women’s names come to mind? Sorcha Thomson and others discuss their book She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World.…
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Histories of gay men, lesbians, queer and trans people often focus on the heroic. But what about the gay characters whose impact on history was far more ambiguous, or complicated, or out-and-out bad? Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey, hosts of the Bad Gays podcast and authors of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, discuss what those complicated lives can tell …
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Rethinking Place in British Labour History
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What do we mean, in post-Brexit Britain, when we talk about "ordinary working-class places"? Valerie Wright, Ewan Gibbs, and Diarmaid Kelliher explore.History Workshop による
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In September 2022, a group of public historians from outside and inside the academy met at London’s Birkbeck College in the heart of Bloomsbury to ask ‘What is public history now?’ In this special edition of the History Workshop Podcast, we explore the politics, the perils, and the possibilities of doing history in public.…
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What happens to narratives of British labour history when we incorporate stories of women? Laura Schwartz and George Stevenson explore.History Workshop による
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Rethinking Race in British Labour History
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To mark International Workers Day, we explore three forgotten moments in British history that spotlight the intertwined histories of labour and race.History Workshop による
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Sixty years after breaking into a government bunker to expose secret state planning for nuclear conflict, Nic Ralph speaks for the first time about an extraordinary piece of direct action that genuinely worked.History Workshop による
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What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and describe the economic past? Six scholars address those questions in this episode of the History Workshop podcast.History Workshop による
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Bureaucracy, Emotion, And Sexual Violence
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How can historians meaningfully and ethically research past experiences of sexual violence? What tools do they need to uncover a subject so intensely emotive and yet often accessible only through sources employing the dry legal or clinical language of institutions and bureaucracies? Ruth Beecher and Rhian Keyse discuss in conversation with Marybeth…
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Approaching British Colonial History During the Culture War
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How might we understand the origins and the impact of current controversies raging in Britain over changing interpretations of British colonial history? How can those working on British colonial history intervene effectively in often fraught public debates? Corinne Fowler reflects on those questions in her June 2022 Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture.…
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