Emily Sandercock examines the modern relevance of the threat posed by upstart servants to paranoid 18th- and 19th-century elites.
Category: Culture
How comedy became resistance
Sophia Marshall writes on the historical relationship between laughter and political dissent.
The language of bushfires
Pepe Bingham-Hall discusses the relationship between language and land conservation in light of the mismanagement of Australia's fires.
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.
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.
Who makes history?
Alex Stanton puts forward the case for including historiography in the school history curriculum.
Feminist zines in the fight against Franco
Anusha Persson considers the power of DIY publishing in the construction of 20th-century Spanish feminism.
