Category: Movements

Ruby Senker tells the story of the 20th century's first international human rights movement.

J. Stoltzfus compares the visa lotteries that supported Irish-Americans in the 1980s with the situation of undocumented migrants today.

Owen Frost reframes the Black Power movement we're mistaught in school.

Zeena Starbuck explains how the policies meant to hold the British Empire together are reappearing in the conversations around Brexit.

Verity Limond talks through how the cup became the star of modern menstrual fashion.

Olivia Billard considers the myth of positive progress in the history of the Industrial Revolution.

Corinne Painter tells the stories of three of the women instrumental in the earliest struggles against fascism.

Devanshi Chengappa discusses the role of British colonialism in the tensions between Muslims and Hindus in the Indian subcontinent.

Alex Walker writes about the divisions Thatcherism opened between members of once tight-knit communities.

Sarah Davidson writes on the emergence of a Black Jewish community in New York during the Harlem Renaissance, and their decades-long struggle for recognition.