Why was a Māori sweet potato introduced to Nigeria - and what can it tell us about the nature of colonial rule? James Akpu explores the global history of the kūmara.

Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.

What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.

How did global connections shape the sounds of the 1950s and 1960s in the decolonising world? Su Lin Lewis and Ben GJ Thomas explore the relationship between music and internationalism in post-colonial Southeast Asia.

Angelou’s 1960s political journalism in Africa demonstrates her desire to link the struggle for civil rights in the US to global campaigns against racism.

A small team is working to digitise decades of Somali history in the country's main public radio station.

A small team is working to digitise decades of Somali history in the country's main public radio station.

Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Richard Mills explores the role football played in establishing diplomatic ties between Tito’s […]

Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024).  What are fallen ty…

In 1957, three months after Ghanaian independence, the world’s most celebrated footballer came to Accra to teach. What Stanley Matthews left behind changed Ghanaian football forever.

What can the twisted histories of one Sri Lankan canal tell us? Sujit Sivasundaram on how the coastal environment of Colombo has been colonised and marketised, but in turn creates its own paths, through winds, waves and waters as well as…

Shortly before Christmas, the French MEP Marion Maréchal was part of a smallish group from the far-right European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the

On how the Hormuz Crisis is forcing nations to build the energy systems they should have built a decade ago

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

What do the materials unearthed in the UK's Undercover Policing Inquiry reveal about the abuse of social justice activists by the surveillance state?

The "now-completed demolition" of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.

In 1955, leaders from Asia and Africa convened to assert their independence from superpower blocs, sowing the seeds of the Non-Aligned Movement.

In 1955, leaders from Asia and Africa convened to assert their independence from superpower blocs, sowing the seeds of the Non-Aligned Movement.

As an object, the dental dam awkwardly straddles the history of AIDS activism and queer sexuality, acting as an assertion that sex doesn’t require the presence of a penis to be real sex, while acknowl...

Abstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and

In 1955, leaders from Asia and Africa convened to assert their independence from superpower blocs, sowing the seeds of the Non-Aligned Movement.

In 1955, leaders from Asia and Africa convened to assert their independence from superpower blocs, sowing the seeds of the Non-Aligned Movement.