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 serie...

Lucy Clarke examines the arrest in early modern England, reconstructing how bystanders could legitimise or challenge the power of the state.

What can an advertisement in a nineteenth century London newspaper tell us about the history of at-home abortion?

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

How can historians write with compassion and ethical clarity about issues of sexual violence?

What can we learn about queer lives and queer history from the call logs of the UK's first LGBTQ+ helpline? Tash Walker and Adam Zmith on their award-winning podcast The Log Books.

What do the materials unearthed in the UK's Undercover Policing Inquiry reveal about the abuse of social justice activists by the surveillance state?

What do the materials unearthed in the UK's Undercover Policing Inquiry reveal about the abuse of social justice activists by the surveillance state?

How might historians write nonviolently about violence? In this personal essay, suzan meryem rosita reflects on the vocabulary of genocide and war.

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

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.

How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth century Germany? Robert D. Priest explores.

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.

Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history. Born in 1724 in the Champenois village of Evergnicourt, he married but remained chil

From histories of the French Revolution, to policing in Early Modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight HWJ as a valuable resource across many different classrooms.

Abstract. Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fat

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History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

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In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together almost 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

Singer and actor overcame drug addiction and homelessness to collaborate with everyone from the Rolling Stones and Metallica to Jean-Luc Godard