How can marginalised histories of internationalism be recovered? The series explores the roles of postcolonial, grassroots, marginalised, and otherwise unconventional actors, organisations and places.

As the title suggests, the provocation of this Supplement is simple: that the histories of medicine, transatlantic slavery, and race cannot, and should not

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Festival of Dangerous Ideas takes over Sydney 20-30 August 2026, presented by The Ethics Centre.

Reusing Oral Histories is the first comprehensive guide available to scholars and students looking to analyse or reanalyse archived oral history interviews.   Oral history scholarship to date has been...

This conference brings together a group of distinguished academics to discuss the work of Costas Douzinas.

Join writer Joanna Bourke for a critical, comparative history of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka and Tucker.

HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside

The aftermath of the 2020 George Floyd protests illustrates a fundamental truism of race relations in America: racial progress is difficult to sustain. While the protests initially seemed to usher in ...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

Over the weekend HEPI published a blog on subject-linked maintenance grants and a book review of Danny Scott’s book ‘The Undisputed King of Selston’. This blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Pet...

Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s

Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ connections to slavery

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Joanna Bourke's website is an essential site for learning about cultural history. She specialises in the history of violence, warfare, the body, emotions, sexuality, and illness in the nineteenth and ...

An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of ‘mainstream news’ outlets for ‘misleading’ coverage

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