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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 01/10/2026
'[...] the use of the name ‘Cragg’s Red’ for the strain that was produced, centres [Cragg's] initiative at the expense of the Nigerian labourers who made it possible.' James Akpu explores the colonial history behind a strain of sweet potato.
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Botanical Imperialism and the Making of Cragg's Kūmara    
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.
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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Global historians are fascinated by mobility and exchange, with good reason - but as Joya Chatterji points out, we also need a history of the people who didn't move. I loved editing this article, which sheds fascinating light on the farmers who made botanical exchange possible.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 01/10/2026
Why was a Māori sweet potato introduced to Nigeria - and what can it tell us about the nature of colonial rule? In the first of our posts for Black History Month, James Akpu explores the global history of the kūmara.
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Botanical Imperialism and the Making of Cragg's Kūmara    
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.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Thank you for your contribution. It was wonderful to work with you and learn from you!
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Mercedes Crisóstomo @mercrisostomo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am so grateful to Marral Shamshiri for inviting me to write this piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk and its Radical Horizons series. The piece forms part of my broader research on women in radical politics in twentieth-century Latin America.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/09/2026
'For some, revolution meant seizing state power, for others, it meant overcoming poverty, ending the historical subordination of indigenous peoples, and pursuing broader social transformations.' Mercedes Crisóstomo examines the experiences of Peru's militant women.
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Political Formation and Politicisation in Turbulent Times
How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/09/2026
This article is part of Radical Horizons, a new History Workshop series. Read more here:
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Radical Horizons
How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri introduces a new History Workshop series.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/09/2026
How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
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Political Formation and Politicisation in Turbulent Times
How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/09/2026
OTD in 2015 Redcar steelworks closed down. From the HW archives Tosh Warwick reflects on the uncertainty in Britain's steel communities. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/capitalism/s...
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'Scenarios of Uncertainty' in Britain’s steel communities
After many of the former steel manufacturing heartlands switched their political allegiances to the Conservatives in the General Election, Tosh Warwick asks what impact legacies of industrial decline,...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/09/2026
"For all the fire in her belly, Webb knew that any effective movement is formed from many disparate parties coming together, and that the perfect ally does not exist." @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social explores the life and politics of forgotten trans Marxist, Rachael Webb (1940-2009).
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Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/09/2026
"For all the fire in her belly, Webb knew that any effective movement is formed from many disparate parties coming together, and that the perfect ally does not exist." @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social explores the life and politics of forgotten trans Marxist, Rachael Webb (1940-2009).
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Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was really happy to be asked to write a piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk! This article looks at the activist career of Rachael Webb, a complicated and difficult figure in recent trans history who nevertheless had an incisive political analysis rooted in Marxism and trade unionism.
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Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social addresses the complexities of this history in such a sensitive and considered way. A masterclass in how to engage with difficult and divisive historical figures.
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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very interesting figure!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/09/2026
This article is part of Radical Horizons, a new History Workshop series. Read more here:
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Radical Horizons
How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri introduces a new History Workshop series.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/09/2026
"I began to learn a method of inquiry: how to analyse historical processes, situate political events within their material and social conditions [and] distinguish description from analysis." Shahrzad Mojab recalls her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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Revolutionary Learning
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/09/2026
OTD in 2019, Thomas Cook travel agency declared insolvency. In this piece from the archive, Alan McNee considers how the rise of Thomas Cook was perhaps the greatest force for popularising and democratising travel in the 19th century.
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We're All Going On A Summer Holiday: The Rise of Thomas Cook
After the recent dramatic collapse of the tour provider Thomas Cook, Alan McNee explores how the firm was perhaps the nineteenth century’s greatest force for popularizing and democratizing travel.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/09/2026
'Our political engagement involved questioning what we knew, understanding our circumstances within wider structures of power, and participating in their transformation'. In this essay, Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in 1970s Iranian student politics.
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Revolutionary Learning
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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Revolutionary Learning
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/09/2026
This article is part of Radical Horizons, a new History Workshop series. Read more here:
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Radical Horizons
How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri introduces a new History Workshop series.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/09/2026
'Our political engagement involved questioning what we knew, understanding our circumstances within wider structures of power, and participating in their transformation'. In this essay, Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in 1970s Iranian student politics.
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Revolutionary Learning
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/09/2026
This article is part of Radical Horizons, a new History Workshop series. Read more here:
historyworkshop.org.uk
Radical Horizons
How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri introduces a new History Workshop series.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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Revolutionary Learning
Transforming the world around us begins with learning to see and inhabit it differently. Shahrzad Mojab reflects on her political education in the 1970s Iranian student movement in the United States.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 21/09/2026
OTD in 1961, 20,000 people marched from Perugia to Assisi in Italy, calling for peace. From the HW archive, @carolienstolte.bsky.social explores the March for Peace and Brotherhood Among Peoples.
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Marching for Peace in the Footsteps of the Saint
What role did public marches play in 1960s peace internationalism? Carolien Stolte on the 1961 Perugia to Assisi march for peace and brotherhood.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 17/09/2026
"The graduate shown on Tuskegee Belle packaging can perhaps be seen as aspirational – a look towards a future where high school and college education for Black women would be the norm rather than the exception." Hillary Belzer from @makeupmuseum.org on the significance of Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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Radical Object: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 17/09/2026
What does an early 20th-century beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer, founder of the @makeupmuseum.org explores the radical history of Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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Radical Object: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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The Makeup Museum @makeupmuseum.org · 17/09/2026
It was truly an honor to write an article for the History Workshop’s Radical Objects series. Huge thanks for the opportunity!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 17/09/2026
"The graduate shown on Tuskegee Belle packaging can perhaps be seen as aspirational – a look towards a future where high school and college education for Black women would be the norm rather than the exception." Hillary Belzer from @makeupmuseum.org on the significance of Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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Radical Object: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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Dr Vikki Turbine @drvikkiturbine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now also following the @makeupmuseum.org 😍
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can’t wait to read this later! Hillary is such a fantastic researcher, writer and curator.
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Crystal Raymond-Edwards @crredwards.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a fascinating analysis.
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Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it was a pleasure to work with Hillary on this really interesting article which highlights her brilliant work curating the @makeupmuseum.org!
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Home - The Makeup Museum
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 17/09/2026
What does an early 20th-century beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer, founder of the @makeupmuseum.org explores the radical history of Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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Radical Object: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/09/2026
What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James_AL_Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.
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An Archive of Solidarity
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.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/09/2026
"The PFLOAG maintained a highly organised network of offices in places such as Beirut and Cairo, along with delegations that established ties with other revolutionary groups in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Vietnam and Cuba" James_AL_Downs on archives and solidarity.
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An Archive of Solidarity
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.
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marral @marralsham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everyone’s favourite archivist (and my brilliant colleague!) @magiclantern.bsky.social on Helen Lackner’s archives and the role of solidarity committees. Beautiful photographs included.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Solidarity. Always relevant.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/09/2026
This article is part of our new series Radical Horizons, which you can find here:
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Radical Horizons
How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri introduces a new History Workshop series.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/09/2026
What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James_AL_Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.
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An Archive of Solidarity
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.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 11/09/2026
OTD in 1973, the government of Salvador Allende was toppled in a military coup. In this article from the archives, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar reflects on her parents' memories of the upheaval and their subsequent activism in exile. '
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The Coup in Chile: 50 Years On
On the 50 year anniversary of the coup in Chile, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar offers a personal testimony of the impact of that day and the continued activism of the Chilean people.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026
"Designed to provide access to public toilets for disabled people, the Radar Key reflects more than a material tool: it showcases wider debates around access, design, and spatial politics in modern Britain." Kirstie Stage on the radical nature of the Radar Key.
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Radical Object: The Radar Key
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.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026
The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and 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.
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Radical Object: The Radar Key
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.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026
"Designed to provide access to public toilets for disabled people, the Radar Key reflects more than a material tool: it showcases wider debates around access, design, and spatial politics in modern Britain." Kirstie Stage on the radical nature of the Radar Key.
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Radical Object: The Radar Key
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.
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This goes straight into my course this term, Thinking about Technology
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026
The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and 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.
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Radical Object: The Radar Key
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.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 09/09/2026
Thank you for writing it for History Workshop! We’re looking forward to part 2 :)
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Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's a new post I co-wrote with @bengjthomas.bsky.social based on an amazing sound and history event we did last year at Bristol's IC Visual Lab for the 70th anniversary of #Bandung. Diving into the music of the era was so much fun, and we historians don't seem to do it enough....Thanks Ben & HWJ!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 08/09/2026
'[The] music of the Bandung era stands as a testament to the internationalism of the time and to the role of musicians in giving voice to the tensions between home and the world.' Su Lin Lewis and Ben GJ Thomas on sound, culture, and decolonisation.
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Afro-Asian Rhythms
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.
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