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Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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It was such a pleasure to edit Vipin's work. This is an incredibly insightful article, whether it's examining the social functions of South Asian dialects or the coercive power of the carceral state.
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It was such a pleasure to edit Vipin's work. This is an incredibly insightful article, whether it's examining the social functions of South Asian dialects or the coercive power of the carceral state.
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day.
From the archive: Clifford McManus discusses the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt as an object of protest and activism, and a symbol of love and remembrance.
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🗃️✊ 🌈🗃️ #queerhistory #WorldAIDSDay
From the archive: Clifford McManus discusses the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt as an object of protest and activism, and a symbol of love and remembrance.
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🗃️✊ 🌈🗃️ #queerhistory #WorldAIDSDay
Radical Object: UK AIDS Memorial Quilt
This World AIDS Day, Clifford McManus discusses the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt as a radical object of protest and activism, and a symbol of love and remembrance.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
OTD in 1820, Friedrich Engels was born in the town of Barmen.
In this article from our archives, Christian Høgsbjerg explores Engels' contributions to modern social and political theory, including his critical role in the development of classical Marxism.
In this article from our archives, Christian Høgsbjerg explores Engels' contributions to modern social and political theory, including his critical role in the development of classical Marxism.
Friedrich Engels at 200: A Revolutionary Historian
Should Friedrich Engels be reappraised as a radical historian for our times? To mark #Engels200, the bicentenary of Engels' birth, Christian Høgsbjerg assesses the revolution in historiography that he helped to foment.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
OTD in 1820, Friedrich Engels was born in the town of Barmen.
In this article from our archives, Christian Høgsbjerg explores Engels' contributions to modern social and political theory, including his critical role in the development of classical Marxism.
In this article from our archives, Christian Høgsbjerg explores Engels' contributions to modern social and political theory, including his critical role in the development of classical Marxism.
'One of the many toxic legacies of seeing Eastern Europe as primitive and backward, and a place without history, is the mess we have today with Ukraine.'
Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková speak to Marybeth Hamilton about teaching Eastern European history.
Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková speak to Marybeth Hamilton about teaching Eastern European history.
Teaching Eastern Europe Through a Decolonial Lens
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?
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November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
'One of the many toxic legacies of seeing Eastern Europe as primitive and backward, and a place without history, is the mess we have today with Ukraine.'
Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková speak to Marybeth Hamilton about teaching Eastern European history.
Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková speak to Marybeth Hamilton about teaching Eastern European history.
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Thanks to Marybeth’s patient questions, our conversation is concise, even punchy. Thank you, @historyworkshop.org.uk ! Very curious what colleagues from decolonization history will say.
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?
In our latest podcast, Oksana Dudko (@oksanadudko.bsky.social) and Anna Hájková (@ankahajkova.bsky.social) discuss Ukrainian history in an age of invasion.
In our latest podcast, Oksana Dudko (@oksanadudko.bsky.social) and Anna Hájková (@ankahajkova.bsky.social) discuss Ukrainian history in an age of invasion.
Teaching Eastern Europe Through a Decolonial Lens
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Thanks to Marybeth’s patient questions, our conversation is concise, even punchy. Thank you, @historyworkshop.org.uk ! Very curious what colleagues from decolonization history will say.
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?
In our latest podcast, Oksana Dudko (@oksanadudko.bsky.social) and Anna Hájková (@ankahajkova.bsky.social) discuss Ukrainian history in an age of invasion.
In our latest podcast, Oksana Dudko (@oksanadudko.bsky.social) and Anna Hájková (@ankahajkova.bsky.social) discuss Ukrainian history in an age of invasion.
Teaching Eastern Europe Through a Decolonial Lens
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?
In our latest podcast, Oksana Dudko (@oksanadudko.bsky.social) and Anna Hájková (@ankahajkova.bsky.social) discuss Ukrainian history in an age of invasion.
In our latest podcast, Oksana Dudko (@oksanadudko.bsky.social) and Anna Hájková (@ankahajkova.bsky.social) discuss Ukrainian history in an age of invasion.
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These illustrations are fantastic, Jas Martin’s warped, vibrant style really brings a fresh, thought-provoking perspective to historical narratives.
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
These illustrations are fantastic, Jas Martin’s warped, vibrant style really brings a fresh, thought-provoking perspective to historical narratives.
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Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
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"The Working Ladies' Guild for Necessitous Gentlewomen" sounds 100% like a twee historical fantasy detective series. In fact, maybe it should be one
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"The Working Ladies' Guild for Necessitous Gentlewomen" sounds 100% like a twee historical fantasy detective series. In fact, maybe it should be one
bsky.app/profile/hist...
bsky.app/profile/hist...
'The Second World War itself supplied Wilson with income and recognition for some years. Her wartime journalism and knowledge about refugees made her a woman of interest.'
Ellen Ross on the career of British Quaker Francesca Wilson.
Ellen Ross on the career of British Quaker Francesca Wilson.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
'The Second World War itself supplied Wilson with income and recognition for some years. Her wartime journalism and knowledge about refugees made her a woman of interest.'
Ellen Ross on the career of British Quaker Francesca Wilson.
Ellen Ross on the career of British Quaker Francesca Wilson.
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
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You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
OTD in 2020, 'doomscroll' was included in the Oxford English Dictionary 'Words of an Unprecedented Year' report.
From the archives, Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron explore how digitally reassembling the archive can offer an intervention in the era of the doomscroll:
From the archives, Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron explore how digitally reassembling the archive can offer an intervention in the era of the doomscroll:
YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE
Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
OTD in 2020, 'doomscroll' was included in the Oxford English Dictionary 'Words of an Unprecedented Year' report.
From the archives, Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron explore how digitally reassembling the archive can offer an intervention in the era of the doomscroll:
From the archives, Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron explore how digitally reassembling the archive can offer an intervention in the era of the doomscroll:
"Palestinians experience the displacement of the 2020s genocide not as a singular event, but as part of a repeated cycle."
Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.
Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Palestinians experience the displacement of the 2020s genocide not as a singular event, but as part of a repeated cycle."
Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.
Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.
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Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
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"Studying this history enables us to reassert the true political factors driving the violence, moving away from its wrongful construction as timeless and inevitable, and to focus instead on human actions and responsibility."
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Studying this history enables us to reassert the true political factors driving the violence, moving away from its wrongful construction as timeless and inevitable, and to focus instead on human actions and responsibility."
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We know this. 'Mairg nach bhfuil ina' dhubhthuatha'..O'Bruadair knew. #writinggenocide.
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We know this. 'Mairg nach bhfuil ina' dhubhthuatha'..O'Bruadair knew. #writinggenocide.
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
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Taught @momoulton.bsky.social's "Both Your Sexes" @historyworkshop.org.uk article twice today.
Man and woman, sex and gender, past and present: no binary looked the same at the end of each of the deep discussions about history and politics this brilliant work made possible.
Man and woman, sex and gender, past and present: no binary looked the same at the end of each of the deep discussions about history and politics this brilliant work made possible.
“Both Your Sexes”: A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain
Abstract. Using the life-writing of historian and playwright Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983), this article develops the concept of a non-binary historic
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Taught @momoulton.bsky.social's "Both Your Sexes" @historyworkshop.org.uk article twice today.
Man and woman, sex and gender, past and present: no binary looked the same at the end of each of the deep discussions about history and politics this brilliant work made possible.
Man and woman, sex and gender, past and present: no binary looked the same at the end of each of the deep discussions about history and politics this brilliant work made possible.
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"While loyal to Marxism’s foundations, his theory was deeply influenced by the decolonial movements of his time, from Vietnam and Algeria to Mozambique and Latin America".
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's forgotten national liberation theorist, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's forgotten national liberation theorist, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"While loyal to Marxism’s foundations, his theory was deeply influenced by the decolonial movements of his time, from Vietnam and Algeria to Mozambique and Latin America".
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's forgotten national liberation theorist, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's forgotten national liberation theorist, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
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"Somewhat similar to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, he was theorising a place for the 'organic intellectuals' of a revolutionary movement".
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Somewhat similar to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, he was theorising a place for the 'organic intellectuals' of a revolutionary movement".
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
"Somewhat similar to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, he was theorising a place for the 'organic intellectuals' of a revolutionary movement".
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Somewhat similar to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, he was theorising a place for the 'organic intellectuals' of a revolutionary movement".
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
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Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.