Learning from the Lives of Threatened Plants Whose lives count in the modern history of extinction? Sadiah Qureshi considers what historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

Whose voices count in the modern history of distinction?

@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social considers how much historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

Radical Synergies 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.

"What kinds of histories and stories might be useful for radical social movements and political struggles today, to overcome the enormous challenges that we face?"

Current and former History Workshop editors reflect on the 50th anniversary of the History Workshop collective.

HWJ in the Classroom 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.

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue.

To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

An Editors' Picnic Barbara Taylor introduces our new series with her memories of a picnic she enjoyed with other History Workshop Journal editors in 1984.

Today we are launching a new series of articles and podcasts to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal 🎉✊🗃️

In this introductory article, Barbara Taylor reflects on a picnic she shared with other editors in 1984, and what it meant to be part of the HWJ collective.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.

Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.

📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00

Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.

After ‘Sinners,’ What Will Ryan Coogler Do Next?

“People see the tuxedo, they see the red carpet, but it’s real blue-collar folks making these movies happen,”

After ‘Sinners,’ What Will Ryan Coogler Do Next? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Mendez · Burning Age of Rage: On Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson​ has maintained that ‘writing poetry or making music ... is not a substitute for hardcore...

‘He made white British readers recognise Jamaican patois. Most readers need to articulate the poems in order to understand their meaning: glancing at the page isn’t enough.’

Mendez on Linton Kwesi Johnson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

America Mourns the Loss of the Idea of America.

Get it right @nytimes.com

This is a free public event where, I hope, this rather fabulous dodo will be present. I’ll be in conversation with Rachel Webster, who is a curator at Manchester Museum. Places are very limited so please book early in you’re interested. Link to book on the page in the original post.

Excited about your next chapter my friend!!

Wonderful news all around!! Many congrats Dr. Wyatt!

No End to American Innocence | The Opinion Pages “You don’t scare me, I’m a historian.” There was a time when I not only fully embraced that sentiment, I also helped to popularize among colleagues, generating bumper stickers as giveaways at departme...

theopinionpages.com/2025/07/no-e...

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The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind | Robert Reich Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism

The “greatest obstacle to dictatorship is an educated populace. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

That’s why enslavers prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. Fascists burn books. Tyrants close universities.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support it

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss

Sadiah Qureshi’s game-changing new book is a must-read!!!

So very excited about this!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

So grateful to be linking arms with you two on this!!!

Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract.

We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!

Sadiah Qureshi in conversation with David Olusoga about extinction Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)

Book launch tickets on sale today at 10! Absolutely delighted to be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. Join us for a launch celebration among amazing ways of being!

Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...

Am I Still Allowed to Tell the Truth in My Class? Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country’s past.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A young woman with a dog, absent-minded scarecrow, heartless tin man, and cowardly lion walk into a city of green seeking a singular wizard who stuns his constitue…

lithub.com/on-the-wizar...

Marika Sherwood obituary Historian and anti-racism campaigner who wrote several groundbreaking books about Black British history

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

What Is the Role of the Historian? Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

Went to an absolutely fabulous conference on Black Power led by the wonderful Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kerry Pimblott. There are so many excellent PhDs and first books in the works from a new cohort of scholars in the field. It’s so exciting to see them flourishing and being so roarsome!