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The historian on his landmark new book ‘Disability: A History of Resistance’

The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates from 4 December 2026. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026-...

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

Lucy Jameson explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.

Hel Spandler explores the evolution of madzines and considers why they should be recognised as a form of activism.

In the years since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Emma-Lee Amponsah reflects on the shared global experience of Black Cultural Memory.

In the final article of this series, our editorial team discuss their findings from an afternoon spent collectively exploring the History Workshop archive.

How did the History Workshop movement in Britain find connections with radical history initiatives around the globe?

The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany led her to appreciate the vast scale of...

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.

How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement?

The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

How can history offer illumination and hope at a time of global upheaval and chaos?

What entitles a life to a place in the annals of feminist history? Marybeth Hamilton explores the marginalisation of writer and drifter, Valerie Solanas.

Solitude has been, and remains, one of the most puzzling eternals of the human condition. Barbara Taylor discusses what the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe reveals about its many faces.

How did History Workshop Journal's editorial collective sustain its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks discuss.