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The IFPA youth group, the Adolescent Confidential Telephone Service and Sexual Health Activism in Ireland, c. 1984–90 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Laura Kelly
In October 1984 the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) established a youth group of volunteers aged 16-20. One of the group’s main initiatives was a sexual health phoneline for young people called the Adolescent Confidential Telephone Service (ACTS). Using oral history interviews and archival sources such as the ACTS logbook, this article explores the motivations of the young activists involved
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‘The Russians are Coming!’ Entangled Peripheries and Cold War Competition in Motorcycle Speedway History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Richard Mills
In its heyday, motorcycle speedway packed stadiums on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Via archival research, oral history, and fieldwork in multiple states this essay argues that speedway is uniquely placed to complicate tired Cold War binaries. Regardless of prevailing political systems, it thrived in provincial settings, as tours, itinerant riders, and machinery ensured regular interactions between
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Male rape: survivors, support and the law in late twentieth-century England and Wales. History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 George J Severs
Until 1994, men were not recognized legally as victims of rape in England and Wales. This article explores the history of male survivors of rape there, establishing the uneven patchwork of support services available to them prior to 1994. It argues that a growing psychiatric literature which studied male survivors of sexual violence was a major factor in convincing lawmakers to include men as potential
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Fishing, Freedom, and the Market in Early Modern London History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jack David Sargeant
In 1699, London’s Billingsgate fish market was confirmed as a ‘free market’ by parliament. This statute marked the culmination of a commercial conflict between London’s Fishmongers’ Company and their arriviste rivals, the Company of Free Fishermen. This article uses the conflict to examine shifting ideas and practices governing the food markets of early modern London. Tensions between the popular values
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Historical Vistas on Sri Lanka’s 2022 People’s Uprising History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra, Sujit Sivasundaram
Written in close proximity to Sri Lanka’s 2022 people’s uprising, this is a conversation between two historians, one from the University of Colombo and the other from the University of Cambridge, about the long roots of violence in Sri Lankan society. It is an account of the lived experience of violence on 9 May 2022, which was a defining event of the uprising. What occurred on this date is cast here
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ARCHIVES AND SOURCES Archival Trials: Unpublished Records from the Allahabad High Court History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Alastair McClure
In recent years legal historians of South Asia have demonstrated the value of moving beyond traditional state archives and published law reports by retrieving records left in working courts. Building on this scholarship, this essay presents reflections from time spent with the unpublished historic records of the Allahabad High Court. The essay begins by examining two unpublished cases retrieved from
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Between Documentation and Dispossession: the Language of the Nuu-chah-nulth People in the Journals of James Cook’s Third Voyage History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Giulia Iannuzzi
Through a case study of James Cook's third voyage and his contact with the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Vancouver Island in 1778, this article sheds new light on the epistemological dispossession of indigenous peoples that accompanied European expansion in the eighteenth century. The documentation of the Nuu-chah-nulth language in the official account of the expedition (1784) contributed to the establishment
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Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Dominic Janes
The minutely documented diaries of an ‘everyman’ such as George Lucas enable us to view the complex pleasures and challenging realities of the post-war queer quotidian in remarkable detail. A sample of the years after 1957, when Lucas was aged in his thirties, suggests that more attention needs to be paid to age-differential relationships and to the problematic aspects of the sexual idolization of
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Undisciplined History: Creative Methods and Academic Practice History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Alison Twells, Will Pooley, Matt Houlbrook, Helen Rogers
This article explores the relationship between scholarly practice and the growing field of creative histories. Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom, it seeks to unsettle dominant approaches to creative methodologies within our discipline and suggest what these more playful and experimental approaches might add to our practice as historians. Prompted by our encounters with the rich and vital
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Thrift, Morality, and Migration in the Barbados Savings Bank History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Joan Flores-Villalobos
There has been little historiographical attention to working-class banking in the Caribbean. This article adds to the scholarship by considering the founding and use of the Barbados Savings Bank by working-class Black Barbadians. Colonial administrators hoped the bank would teach formerly enslaved Barbadians how to properly transition into the free wage labor force and sought to encourage household
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“Both Your Sexes”: A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Mo Moulton
Using the life-writing of historian and playwright Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983), this article develops the concept of a non-binary historical methodology. It argues that historians should take gender as a historically contingent category to allow alternative logics of embodiment, selfhood, desire, and relationality to be more clearly seen. Drawing on trans studies, the article situates Byrne
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Queer Hostages for Hanoi History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Martin Duberman
This memoir of peace activism in the United States in the early 1970s, as the Vietnam war was drawing to a close, focuses on the difficulties of sustaining an effective anti-war campaign. It describes several key protests: sit-ins outside the Senate chamber in Washington, after one of which the writer was briefly jailed; the attempt to secure the Nobel Peace Prize for all those Americans who refused
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Missionaries, the State, and Labour in Colonial Kenya c.1909–c.1919: the ‘Gospel of Work’ and the ‘Able-Bodied Male Native’ History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Tom Cunningham
This article is a study of the role of the Church of Scotland Mission within the labour system in colonial Kenya at the start of the twentieth century. With their ‘Gospel of Work’, their government-funded technical apprenticeship scheme, and a series of legal-political interventions to regulate the settler economy, the Mission played a crucial role in the augmentation of the colonial state and capitalism
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About a Play: Stanley Middleton’s Pentrich Revolution History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Carolyn Steedman
A school play about the Pentrich Revolution (1817) and Jeremiah Brandreth its ‘leader’, scripted in 1970–71 by teacher and novelist Stanley Middleton, reveals the history of teaching about Pentrich, to adults and children, over the previous century. Middleton’s use of the Nottinghamshire dialect to write history, in the play and his many novels, is a focus of the article.
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Racial Capitalism and Peasant Insurgency in Colonial Myanmar History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Jonathan Saha
The Hsaya San Rebellion swept through colonial Myanmar between 1930 and 1932. It took eighteen months and over seven thousand Indian Army troops to suppress. Triggered by acute pressures in the agrarian economy that were compounded by a global fall in rice prices, the violence of the revolt cannot be fully explained by this crisis alone. Bands of peasant rebels massacred Indians; not only moneylenders
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Racial Capitalism in Voltaire’s Enlightenment History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
This essay argues that the concept of ‘racial capitalism’ can help us understand the connections between seemingly disparate parts of Voltaire’s extensive corpus of work. It contends that even though the Enlightenment’s racial politics abounded with contradictions and ambivalences, Voltaire stood out from his contemporaries. While the connections between his polygenism – the theory that humans of different
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Hampshire’s Gypsy Rehabilitation Centres: Welfare and Assimilation in Mid-20th Century Britain History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Jim Hinks, Becky Taylor
Through examination of a ‘Gypsy rehabilitation’ scheme in 1960s Hampshire, this article explores the position of England’s hereditary nomads at the height of Britain’s interventionist welfare state. We show how, while the scheme’s focus on enforced settlement appeared specific to Gypsies, it formed part of a spectrum of assimilatory methods used against other non-conforming groups. Equally, in the
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Migration, Racism and Sexual Health in Postwar Britain History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Anne Hanley
The British Nationality Act 1948 conferred citizenship on Commonwealth subjects, granting them the right to settle in Britain. Hundreds of thousands of New Commonwealth migrants made use of the Act. Almost immediately, opponents began criticizing the health impacts of immigration, focusing on diseases like syphilis and gonorrhoea. More than any other migrant group, Black British men from the Caribbean
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Sustaining a Nonviolent Self: Mahatma Gandhi, Madeleine Slade, and Manu Gandhi History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Nikita Arora
Abstract Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) articulated and practised a unique ideology of ahimsa, nonviolence, in his life. Most importantly, ahimsa included refusing the needs and pleasures of the body – sex, food, care, and desire. For Gandhi, embodiment was an intrinsically violent condition, but he ultimately did live in his body. In this paper, I argue that while he perfected a nonviolent
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The Servant Problem and the Colour Line: Race, Class, and Domestic Labour in the Transvaal Colony, 1902–1914 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Maia Silber
Abstract After the Second South African War, the Transvaal Colony subsidized the migration of British domestic workers. Sought for their perceived capacity to ‘Anglicize’ the colony as potential wives for settlers and for their cheap labor, migrant women were both protected and disciplined by the state and employers. But by positioning themselves against the Black domestic workers with whom they worked
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Marc Bloch in the French Resistance History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Schöttler
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Mapping the Notting Hill Riots: Racism and the Streets of Post-war Britain History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Christopher Hilliard
Abstract This article offers a new interpretation of the 1958 race riots in west London. It uses arrest data to map where the violence occurred and where the rioters lived. Few of the white people arrested lived alongside black people or competed with them for housing. The riots were not a straightforward response to privation. Rather, they were a reassertion of an implicitly but powerfully racialized
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FEATURE: WOMEN'S RESISTANCE IN KASHMIR Memory as Resistance: Oral Histories from Kashmir History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Sehar Iqbal,Severyna Magill
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Political Activism and the Everyday in Cold War Japan History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Peter Siegenthaler
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Remembering Deceased Children in Family Life: the School Case of Poor Harold (1920–31) History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Laura King
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‘I shall paint my nails with the blood of those that covet me’: Kashmir’s Women’s Militia and Independence-era Nationalism History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Andrew Whitehead
Abstract Towards the close of 1947, amid increasing turbulence and conflict in Kashmir, women activists established their own militia and were trained to use rifles – a rare initiative in South Asia even amid the turmoil of Partition and independence. The women were aligned with radical Kashmiri nationalism. Their militia was a self-defence force as well as a demonstration of support for Indian rule
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‘All England Was Present at that Siege’: Imperial Defences and Island Stories in British Culture History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Brian Wallace
Abstract In 2018, a controversy over the commemoration of Rorke’s Drift in a London Tube station demonstrated the tensions inherent in twenty-first-century imperial memory. This article traces how imperial sieges like Rorke’s Drift, Lucknow, and Mafeking played a central role in shaping Victorian Britain’s imperial self-image, with besieged garrisons celebrated as microcosms of their island homeland
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Masterless People in the Era of the Haitian Revolution History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Jesús Sanjurjo
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‘For them it was just a game but for us it was more’: Black Identity and the Making of Basketball in Urban Britain History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Romyn M.
In his 2019 work No Win Race, Derek Bardowell described the act of watching British basketball as a source of identity for his younger self, and a revelatory generator of self-concepts: I discovered for the first time a side of Englishness that spoke to me, spoke about me and spoke for me. Through the mid-to-late eighties, I followed a group of basketball players, primarily children of the Windrush
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Māori Workers in Colonial New South Wales, c. 1803–401 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Howitt R.
On the afternoon of 30 March 1835, a funeral took place in the town of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), that was unusual in many ways. As the funeral procession made its way to the Strangers’ Burial Ground ‘at a very quick pace’, an observer noted that the deceased was conveyed not in a coffin but in a wooden musket case carried by four men. A grave was dug to a depth of five feet, and as the makeshift
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Open secrets: the British ‘migrated archives’, colonial history, and postcolonial history History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Livsey T.
In 2011, the British government revealed that it held an irregular archive of thousands of files from thirty-seven former colonies. British authorities had covertly removed these documents around the time of transfers of power, from the later 1940s to the 1980s. The disclosure was prompted by a legal action brought against the British government by five Kenyans – Ndiku Mutwiwa Mutua, Paulo Nzili, Wambugu
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Editorial: New Editors History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Davin A.
With this issue, seven new editors join the collective of History Workshop Journal, significantly enlarging our expertise. We’re delighted to welcome them:
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Conflict and Community in the Trenches: Military Justice Archives and Interactions between Soldiers in France’s Armée d’Afrique, 1914–18 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Claire Eldridge
This article demonstrates the methodological value of using military justice archives to explore how soldiers navigated the multi-ethnic French army during the First World War. It focuses on Armée d’Afrique units containing high concentrations of colonial subjects and uses crime records to consider the implications of this unprecedented level of diversity. Emphasizing the experiences and voices of
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Utopian Universities History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Patel J.
Utopian Universities: a Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s, ed. PellewJillTaylorMiles, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020, 400 pages, ISBN 978-1-350-13863-6.
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Malcolm Chase (1957–2020) History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Bensimon F, McWilliam R.
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Unequal Britain History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Alexander S.
ThanePat, Divided Kingdom, a History of Britain, 1900 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 21018
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Emotions and the German Peasants’ War of 1524–6 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Lyndal Roper
This article addresses the questions of the history of emotions to the German Peasants' War of 1524-5. The biggest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution, it overturned lordship in wide areas of Germany and beyond for about three months. It transformed the character of the Reformation as Luther condemned the peasant rebels. The revolt followed an emotional arc, shaped as much
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Four Lives, Two Cars, and a Colony History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Su Lin Lewis, Robert Bickers
Prompted by the closure of archives and new ways of working during lockdown, Su Lin Lewis and Robert Bickers find an unexpected intersection in their own family histories. Photographs of their grandparents were taken a decade and a hundred miles apart but betray parallel histories of migration, war, and social aspiration amid the decolonization of Malaya and the birth of a new Malaysia. The car is
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Women and Stews: the Social and Material History of Prostitution in the late medieval Southern Low Countries History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Jelle Haemers
This article explores the social background and material culture of an understudied medieval brothel, the private ‘stew’, the most common type of brothel in the Southern Low Countries, where public brothels were rare. The fifteenth-century lease contracts of private stews contain information about the stew's size, economic value, and ambiance, suggesting the advantageous social position of some of
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Teaching Empire and War: Animating Marginalized Histories in the Classroom History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Anna Maguire, Diya Gupta
How can we teach ‘forgotten’ histories of war and empire in the classroom, responding to urgent needs to ‘decolonize’ the curriculum and pedagogic practice? This article reflects on an exercise in pedagogical experimentation – a ‘widening participation’ project based upon a series of workshops – to demonstrate a more global and ‘messy’ understanding of the role of empire in the First and Second World
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Corrigendum History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-25
Agnes Arnold-Forster, ‘Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction’, History Workshop Journal 91, pp. 157–181, doi:10.1093/hwj/dbab011
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Labour History’s Biographical Turn History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Malcolm Chase
This translation of Malcolm Chase’s 2010 article explores the opportunity that biography provides to challenge dominant accounts of Chartism, incorporating women and familial networks. Biography has been a discursive strategy of central importance to labour history, challenging historians to communicate beyond the academic milieu, to overcome the restrictions of identity/class politics without dismissing
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The Spectre of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Arnaud S.
AbstractWhen, during the Revolution, the French government committed to supporting the education of Deaf people, they left it to teachers to determine the methods and contents of this education. Less than a century later, the Ministry of the Interior of the third Republic reformed the teaching in use in most institutions in the direction of methods of pure speech. This moment coincided with the development
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Radical Commemoration, the Politics of the Street, and the 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Laura C Forster
The memory of the Paris Commune of 1871 has long been summoned as an example of urban revolutionary struggle. In 2011 a Parisian street art collective, RaspouTeam, produced a series of commemorative installations across Paris to mark the 140th anniversary of the Commune. They intended the project to make an explicit link between the politics of the Paris Commune of 1871, and the politics of public
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Gay and Lesbian Liberation in the Low Countries: From Stonewall to Pink Pillar History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Wannes Dupont
This article examines the legacy of Stonewall in the Netherlands and Belgium, exploring how the gay and lesbian liberation movement resonated with pre-existing activism, national political cultures, and the peculiar structure of civil society in the Low Countries. American influences were real but limited until the later 1970s when the emergence of anti-gay politics in the US fuelled international
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Raw Material: UNHCR’s Individual Case Files as a Historical Source, 1951–75 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Peter Gatrell
This article contributes to the emerging field of refugee history by inviting a consideration of the extensive holdings of the Records and Archives Division of the Geneva-based Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It focuses on a sample of confidential case files created in the quarter-century following the launch of UNHCR to determine whether an individual was eligible
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Contested Childhood: Assessing the Age of Young Refugees in the Aftermath of the Second World War History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-28 Antoine Burgard
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, identity documents and proofs of age were often lost or unavailable, bodies and behaviours had been marked by years of malnourishment and persecution, young people had learned to misrepresent their age for the sake of survival, and administrations routinely doubted age claims. The war had profoundly disrupted the system for knowing age that had become
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Irreverent Histories of Empire History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-24 Kennetta Hammond Perry
CarbyHazel, Imperial Intimacies: a Tale of Two Islands, Verso Press, London, 2019; 400pp.
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British Universities and Transatlantic Slavery: the University of Glasgow Case History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Stephen Mullen
On 16 September 2018, the University of Glasgow released the report ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’. This acknowledged that slave-owners, merchants and planters with connections to New World slavery – and their descendants – donated capital between 1697 and 1937 that influenced the development of the institution. In producing this report, the institution became the first British
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Britain’s Brown Babies History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Chamberlain M.
BlandLucy, Britain’s Brown Babies: the Stories of Children born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2019, pp. 271.
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And She Did History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-06-13 Carolyn Steedman
Let’s get a few things straight before we begin. First, I really, really, dislike the word `passion’. If any one says it of me, or my writing, I cringe. (I use it of myself, self-mockingly, sometimes, but only when the satiric mode is dialled up so high that nobody could not hear.) It is so … schoolgirlish, so naively keen; so very … unironic. And lurking somewhere in my dislike is a considered distaste
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The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919–27 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-05-29 Jake Hodder
This paper considers the meetings of the interwar Pan-African Congress movement. It examines the Congress in the context of how conferencing became a dominant mode of international politics in the 1920s and the opportunities this offered to non-state actors. The Congress exemplified the hope which race reformers placed in the new international system established after the First World War, and in the
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Runaway Slaves, Militant Abolitionists, and the Critique of American Prisons, 1830–60 History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Jesse Olsavsky
This essay reveals the ways that runaways and abolitionists, through their critiques of American prisons in the decades prior to the American Civil War, collectively originated the ideas and practices of prison abolition. It began with fugitive slaves who named slavery the ‘prison house’. Runaways, and the most radical amongst abolitionists, many of whom served time for their activism, used fugitives’
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The Scattering: a Family History for a Floating World History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-23 Joe Moran
This essay is an experiment in family history, inspired by a journey to scatter my father’s ashes on Scattery – the island in the Shannon estuary where my grandmother was born and raised. It explores how my family’s story illuminates the history of small Irish islands and of two much bigger islands, Ireland and Britain. Island stories replay in microcosm, and with great intensity, broader narratives
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‘To Destroy’: Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham in the Freud Archive History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Agnes Meadows
In a 1960 letter to her lifelong collaborator Dorothy Burlingham, Anna Freud described the ambiguities of existing as a woman and as a member of the Freud family within psychoanalytic institutions. Burlingham later marked this letter with the words ‘To destroy’ on the grounds that it was ‘too personal’. This article draws on the newly catalogued Dorothy Burlingham collection in the Freud Museum archive
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Mining Men: Reflections on Masculinity and Oral History during the Coronavirus Pandemic History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Emily Peirson-Webber
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our ability to undertake oral history research as it is traditionally understood, where interviewer and interviewee are in dialogue with each other in a shared physical setting. Reflecting on experiences conducting twenty-seven remote interviews with former British mineworkers, this article explores how meaningful interviews can be produced with certain groups via
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Algiers, Mecca of Revolutions History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Claire Eldridge
MokhtefiElaine, Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers, Verso, London and New York, 2018 ISBN: 9781788730006.
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Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Agnes Arnold-Forster
Following the foundation of the NHS in 1948, a new sub-genre of romantic fiction emerged: ‘Doctor–Nurse’ romances, usually involving romance between a male doctor and a female nurse, were set in NHS hospitals. Drawing on the Mills & Boon archive and the novels themselves, this article explores representations of the health service and notions of gendered healthcare professionalism in postwar Britain
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Truth, Justice, and Expertise in 1980s Britain: the Cultural Politics of the New Cross Massacre History Workshop Journal (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Aaron Andrews
This article examines the movement, led by prominent black British activists, which was established in the aftermath of the 1981 New Cross fire. The campaign showed how the racism long experienced by black urban communities eroded trust in state institutions, and it contested the official narrative of the police investigation and a coroner’s inquest through protests and the deployment of alternative