Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.

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).

This article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series called ‘Radical Horizons’.

Peter Felix (ca. 1866–1926), an African Caribbean man from the Danish West Indies, was a prominent heavyweight boxer in Australia for two decades. Less known is Felix’s even longer theatrical caree...

When Patterson was at Temple University, she insisted on swimming when her white teammates swam and not being limited to the hour when the pool was available to Black swimmers.

In the 1860s the British artist Frederick Augustus Sandys finished his painting of Helen of Troy — his version of Helen of Troy, that is.

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

The rest of ‘the greatest literature ever published in English’

The beautiful game can unite the world, but the institutions that govern it too often serve power, profit, and politics before the people.

With Wimbledon reaching its climax, it's worth retelling how David Samaai became the first Black South African to play there in 1949, before Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

Even though most of their instruments have been destroyed, teachers are restarting classes, using music to give relief to traumatised people

the World Cup is about more than just football—here's what to read

Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who examines how Black radicals have interpreted ...

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

Studentships are a specific type of funding, usually for a specific research project offered by an academic department.

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

At a literature festival recently, during the book signing after my talk, a shy young woman waiting in the queue said to me:

On 20 June, the Stop the War Coalition is hosting a major International Conference Against War in London. Back in January, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign wrote to Lindsey German, Convenor of StW, …

I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.