In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting. It’s designed to support archivists collecting material in situations like the aftermath of accide...

Political leaders increasingly caution that we are facing a historical ‘inflection point’. Are we?

We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...

For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.

To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.

[FREE TO READ] Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor

Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under-researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and ...