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Music of resistance: First Nations hip-hop
Jack Bennett considers the synthesis of Black and Indigenous culture in a radical musical genre.
No more heroes: microhistory in Brecht’s Mutter Courage
Jack Graveney reads one of Brecht’s most famous plays as a polemic against the cult of historical heroism.
Feminism under Mao
Tevy Kuch considers the relationship between Maoism and women’s liberation in China.
The past and future of mental healthcare in the US
Srilekha Cherukuvada asks what a history of asylums and abuse tells us about what’s needed in the coming years.
Searching for LGB women in Soho
Bex Dudley explores Soho as a space for the formation and demonstration of relationships between women.
Nellie Bly and the changing face of journalism
Meghna Amin remembers the 23-year-old woman who revolutionised investigative journalism.
Mainstreaming antifascism: the Anti-Nazi League in Britain
Jack Stewart remembers the widespread antifascist movements of 1970s Britain.
‘Mere gatherers of roots’: David Attenborough’s colonial perspectives
Jack Guise observes how the iconic documentary-maker’s earliest films reflected the colonial anxieties of their time.
Learning history from below
Jack Mason writes on the importance of everyday perspectives for a meaningful historical tradition.
Colonialism and conflict in Biafra
Millie Lord considers the role of British colonialism in the triggering of deadly conflict.
The moral censorship of Hollywood
The introduction of the Hays Code in 1934 changed the nature of a once boundary-pushing industry. Isabelle Drury considers its continuing effects.
From the old world, for a new world: the power of Utopia
Sam Radford writes on the legacy of More’s Utopia and the radical fantasies it has inspired.
The Contagious Diseases Acts: an early feminist cause
Eden James writes about a legal battle that galvanised the early feminist movement.
Chernobyl’s forgotten generation
Charles MacNeice looks back at the human cost of a disaster known only for its political consequences.
Who makes history?
Alex Stanton puts forward the case for including historiography in the school history curriculum.
Nellie Bly and the changing face of journalism
Meghna Amin remembers the 23-year-old woman who revolutionised investigative journalism.
‘Mere gatherers of roots’: David Attenborough’s colonial perspectives
Jack Guise observes how the iconic documentary-maker’s earliest films reflected the colonial anxieties of their time.
Mukhlisa Bubi: the first female Qadi
Fairuz Farhoud writes on the legacy of Mukhlisa Bubi, a Muslim judge, educator and campaigner in a hostile revolutionary Russia.
Selling love with Veronica Franco
In Renaissance Venice, poets and sex workers made their living by selling different versions of love. Chloe Johnson remembers a woman who straddled the divide.
Feminism under Mao
Tevy Kuch considers the relationship between Maoism and women’s liberation in China.
Searching for LGB women in Soho
Bex Dudley explores Soho as a space for the formation and demonstration of relationships between women.
Mainstreaming antifascism: the Anti-Nazi League in Britain
Jack Stewart remembers the widespread antifascist movements of 1970s Britain.
Learning history from below
Jack Mason writes on the importance of everyday perspectives for a meaningful historical tradition.
culture
Music of resistance: First Nations hip-hop
Jack Bennett considers the synthesis of Black and Indigenous culture in a radical musical genre.
No more heroes: microhistory in Brecht’s Mutter Courage
Jack Graveney reads one of Brecht’s most famous plays as a polemic against the cult of historical heroism.
The past and future of mental healthcare in the US
Srilekha Cherukuvada asks what a history of asylums and abuse tells us about what’s needed in the coming years.
The moral censorship of Hollywood
The introduction of the Hays Code in 1934 changed the nature of a once boundary-pushing industry. Isabelle Drury considers its continuing effects.
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