The official blog of the Peterborough Women's History Group

YouTube video by New Scientist

On 18 July 2026, members of UNISON Peterborough City Branch attended Peterborough Pride.  The event Pride took place on Peterborough Embankment but first, LGBT+ people and allies gathered at Stanle…

The remains are believed to date back to the Medieval era when the site served as a cemetery.

While the workers resisted fascism, they were also embarking on a social revolution, with magnificent achievements of self-management ~ Alfredo Gon…

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

We're delighted to announce that the new British Newspaper Archive will launch on Tuesday 28 July 2026, with a range of brand new features.

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

#MeToo

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

Plastic is endemic – much where it should not be. It will outlive us. Yet valiant attempts are trying to address the environmental damage.

The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.

The Society for the Study of Labour History is deeply saddened and shocked to learn that the University of Hertfordshire intends to make cuts across a range of humanities subjects, including the cl…

Stonea Camp is described as the lowest Iron Age Multivallate ‘hillfort’ in Britain, and one sunny cold day last winter, I headed out to take a look. The camp is situated next to Latches Fen, at the…

Underneath the market town of Royston in Hertfordshire, lies a small dimly lit, bell shaped cave with an amazing array of carvings and paintings covering its walls. Nobody really knows how old it i…

Peterborough Women’s Festival will take place this weekend – moving to a new venue for 2026.

A remarkable hoard in West Norfolk is exciting archaelogists and scholars who study the lives and battles of Boudica and her Norfolk Iceni

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.