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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.
A call for editors for a new edited volume on the Working Ladies Guild. The volume is expected to focus on the late-Victorian period, with the case-histories of women based in London who approached the Guild for relief providing the bulk of the material. The records of the Guild’s Chelsea group, covering the period 1884 to 1897, will provide the core of the material to be transcribed and edited. Readers who are interested in potentially taking on this task should contact Dr Anne Summers (chair@friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk) or Prof Jerry White, Honorary General Editor (Modern Records) of the LRS (jerry.white@bbk.ac.uk) to discuss the project further.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This article was illustrated by Jas Martin, a student at Nottingham Trent University.

You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
A colourful illustration depicting a lavishly dressed king sitting in a gold throne. Everything about the scene is slightly warped, for example, the king's face is slumped and he has several noses. He also has two hands at the ends of each of his arms. A bright illustration depicting a battle scene with two soldiers facing one another on horseback. There is an elaborate border around the scene comprising mythological creatures and other soldiers, the features of which are all slightly warped. A vibrant illustration depicting a bunch of golden flowers, amongst which is a crushed tin can and other detritus.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The wonderful illustrations accompanying this piece are by Madeleine Horrigan, a student at Nottingham Trent University.

You can find her work here: madeleinehorrigan.we...

1. ‘Confronting the Few’, illustrated by Madeleine Horrigan.
2. ‘A Constricted Homeland’, illustrated by Madeleine Horrigan.
An oversized crow stands on some pieces of bread on a white background. A crowd of people are dotted below. A big black leech encircles an illustration of a town on a dark green background.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.

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Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with the History Workshop logo and a title which reads ‘Can you help us?’ Underneath the title some text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org
August 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Come and meet Shere Hite—the feminist hero whose notorious work revolutionized how we think about sex, marriage, and the female orgasm... Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurprisingly, little read. Her groundbreaking book, The Hite Report, was the first feminist exploration of the link between sex and male power. It sold millions of copies when first published in 1976 and revolutionized the way people thought about marriage and the female orgasm. How, then, did it, and Hite, disappear from public consciousness? Using original research material and sharp cultural analysis, Rosa Campbell explores Hite’s complicated life and literary legacy. Campbell expands on Hite’s ideas about sex — namely, that sex is sexist — and tracks Hite through her fraught childhood, her struggles working in the porn industry, and her eventual cancellation by the far-right Evangelical movement. All the while, Campbell holds Hite and The Hite Report to account for their own failings and absence of intersectionality.
August 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Today the HWO team are taking a little field trip to the Bishopsgate Institute (@bishopsgateinst.bsky.social)! We’re so excited to have a look through the History Workshop archive!
An outside picture of the Bishopsgate Institute, with a Pride flag flying proudly!
August 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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How did motherhood shape collective banner-making practices at Greenham Common, a 19-year women-led camp protesting US nuclear weapons in Berkshire?

Maisie Jepson (@girlinthewrongera.bsky.social) explores in our latest HW article.

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A colour photograph of five women and two young girls standing casually along a dirt track which runs next to a tall chain link fence. A long line of colourful handmade banners is decorating the fence. One woman looks directly at the camera whilst everyone else is admiring the banners. A colour photograph of a large white banner in the middle of protest march full of women and children. The banner reads in ‘Oxford Mothers For Nuclear Disarmament’ in brightly coloured letters. A colour photograph two vibrant banners attached to a chain link fence. The left-hand banner depicts a green tree against a rainbow backdrop with ‘Peace’ in silver letters. The right-hand banner depicts an abstract red tree with blue birds flying above.
August 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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In the latest issue of History Workshop Journal, Tom Johnson (@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social‬) examines the account book of a fifteenth-century bailiff to reconsider relationships to the gentry.

Available to read Open Access in HWJ 99:

doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
July 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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What can an unconventional self-portrait of a 15th century bailiff tell us about medieval lordship today?

In the latest issue of History Workshop Journal, Tom Johnson (@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social‬) unpacks the seigneurial archive.

Available to read open access in HWJ 99: doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
June 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The latest issue of History Workshop Journal is hot off the press - with articles on medieval lordship, trans feminism and meat markets.

Issue 99 is live now on the HWJ website:

academic.oup.com/hwj...
June 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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In our latest HW podcast episode, historians Michael Roper and Shaul Bar-Haim speak to Laura Clouting, the curator of an exhibition on war and psychology at the Imperial War Museum, about their intrigue over the story it tells.

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April 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A provocative exhibition at the Imperial War Museum explores the relationship between psychology and war.

In our latest podcast episode, its curator Laura Clouting joins historians Michael Roper and Shaul Bar-Haim who discuss their surprising experience of the exhibition.

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April 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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The beautiful illustrations in this piece are by Eanna Swan.
April 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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What are the limits and possibilities of scholarly inquiry in times of protest?

In our new podcast episode, Samal Hemachandra, Lara Wijesuriya and Andi Schubert discuss the 2022 People's Struggle in Sri Lanka, known as Aragalaya.

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February 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The 2022 People's Struggle in Sri Lanka, known as Aragalaya, led to the toppling of the government.

In this week's podcast episode, Samal Hemachandra, Lara Wijesuriya and Andi Schubert reflect on articles they recently published in HWJ 97 on the roots of the protests.

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February 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The latest issue of HWJ is 🔥 off the press.

Take a look here 👀 👉academic.oup.com/hwj...

Feature on Unbordered Histories - including passports, small boats & deportation protests.

PLUS:
🦟 Decolonizing Mosquitoes
✊ Sexual Health Activism
✍️ Revolutionary Diaries & more.
January 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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We are a digital magazine of radical history.

We believe in democratising history - to expand what it is, who it is made by & what it is for.

Our roots are in the History Workshop movement, est. in 1967 in the UK, & we work with our sister publication History Workshop Journal.
Staffing plan and sign-up sheet for History Workshop 4. The printed schedule on blue paper has been pasted over with white paper and handwritten slots for co-ordinators in correspondence and accommodation, catering, stewarding, and electrical and public address system.
December 4, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Marral Shamshiri (she/they) is an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop. Her work explores the transnational history and politics of anti-imperial and socialist movements in and beyond the Middle East in the mid-to-late twentieth century. @marralsham.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Beckie Rutherford (she/her) is an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop. She is a historian of gender, sexuality and disability in modern Britain. Outside of academic work, she is keen to promote the importance of teaching disability history in schools. @beckierutherford.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Mary Katherine Newman (she/her) is an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop. Her research looks at the understanding of the five senses among soldiers during the Spanish Empire’s invasion of Wallmapu (now the modern state of Chile). maryknewman.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Vivien Chan (she/they) is an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop. She is a design historian with a focus on Hong Kong cultural and spatial history. Vivien is also an imagemaker and lecture in Illustration at Nottingham Trent University. @inoutofpractice.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Marybeth Hamilton (she/her) is the Coordinating Editor of History Workshop and the host of the History Workshop Podcast. She is currently working on a project on radical feminism, sex, love, and rage.
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM