Hackney council will close Keith Miller sports pitch at end of year to build urgently needed social homes

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields Traders at Brixton market say they are in a battle of “people over profit” after submitting a last-minute plan to stop the site being bought by a private equity firm which they fear could price out longstanding independent businesses. Those behind the Buy Back Brixton campaign said they are through to the second stage of a bidding process, competing against multinational companies to buy Brixton Village and Market Row for community ownership. Continue reading...

In October 1765 a mob of sailors wearing blackface and masks, armed with clubs and cutlasses, visited the home of wealthy Charleston merchant Henry Laurens. Eighty strong and warm with drink and anger...

Like many Black soldiers conscripted in the segregated armed forces during World War II, Burt Jackson did not need did need battlefield instruction to

On Britain’s universities.

YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

<p><span>Virtually all institutions of higher education in the United States share the same basic governance structure. Ultimate authority resides not with facu

In 2016, Trump asked Black voters what they had to lose if he was president. In 2026, the answer is clear.

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

In this mixer role play, students learn about more than a dozen different examples of reparations — ranging from cash payments to land settlements to state apologies — from a variety of historical mom...

In Search of the Black Women's History Archive - Volume 1 Issue 2

“Saints” or “Scabs”: Contesting Feminized Labors, Social Needs, and the Welfare State in the Volunteering Wars of the 1970s - Volume 5 Issue 2

The Fire Inside: Women Protesting AIDS in Prison since 1980 - Volume 5 Issue 1

How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement?

Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

The Obama Presidency as told by 450+ officials, activists, organizers, and extraordinary people from all walks of life.

A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

It remains in place for now to allow further legal argument and the government to consider an appeal.

Making Sense of the Great War - April 2024

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

With the end of the New Start treaty, we face a potentially catastrophic arms race. It can still be prevented

In this episode, Renata and Dustin examine the Cuban Missile Crisis and its moments of greatest danger. They speak with scholars including Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Michelle Chase, James Hershberg, Pete

The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...