The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain.
Catherine Hall (@cslbs.bsky.social) examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.
"We have a challenge here in the face of appalling things happening around the world not to give in to a politics of despair because that's exactly what the people in power want us to do."
Laura C. Forster, Julia Laite, Laura Schwartz, Anne Irfan and Jo Kelcey on doing history in turbulent times.
Thank you!
For the last few years I've been working on a book on Valerie Solanas, the politics of madness, and the boundaries of feminist history. You can get a glimpse of it in this piece just out in History Workshop's digital magazine (which links to a longer article in History Workshop Journal 100).
“Solitude is not unitary but plural, a field of experience lived in multiple registers.”
Barbara Taylor considers the varying nature of solitude within the iconic adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe.
How has the History Workshop Journal collective sustained its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years?
Two HWJ veterans, Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks, sat down to share their memories with @beckierutherford.bsky.social and @inoutofpractice.bsky.social🎙✊🏻
"It is easy to forget the fact that those who first popularised the term ‘culture war’ to describe the convulsions of late 20th century American cultural politics did so in such explicit dialogue with 19th century Germany."
Robert D. Priest on the origins of culture wars.
Front cover image of History Workshop Journal issue 100, with a hand-drawn illustration of a Wollemi pine.
The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
"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.
It was exciting to be invited to help celebrate @historyworkshop.org.uk’s anniversary, especially as it gave me yet another reason to rave about teaching with Michaela Kalcher’s work on trauma, the Terror, and an incredible diary doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
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.
Two stacks of books and three open books in the centre. The books are not identifiable.
It's that time of year again... the History Workshop team present our "Radical Reads" for 2025!
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Image source: Openverse.
HWJ is 50 years old next year and we're about to launch a fab new series of articles and podcasts all in celebration of the 100th issue!
Come along in January and wish us a Happy Birthday 🥳
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal.
To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk
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I know this shouldn’t shock me but OMG.
Have just discovered that my article on Valerie Solanas, art, madness, and feminism (in HWJ issue 100) can also be accessed outside the paywall here: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/56...
Thank you so much!
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I've got a new article on Valerie Solanas and her place in feminist history, part of the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
The cop at the end of Usual Suspects looking around his office and seeing the objects that inspired the story
Bath salts
A bbc Coast boxset
A moth mug
A Penguin editor looking around their office this morning.
trump: I’m going to protect women
women: no thank you
trump: I’m gonna do it
women: please don’t
trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team
women: what
trump: and brought back andrew tate
women: why
trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore
The New Left "was an avowedly socialist endeavour which... sought to operate largely outside conventional political parties and electoral politics"
Andrew Whitehead brings together 50 years of writing on the New Left, in a free-access issue of History Workshop Journal.
www.historyworkshop....
We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.
The first of the series is out! Odila's piece on Beijing peddler calls and how heritagisation takes street life to a different place... can you really capture a sound mark? What gets lost in the end when you try?
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States — theonion.com/fbi-uncovers...
