A return to normalcy? Extremist violence and the 1920 election
Ben Davies compares the political violence that took place around the 1920 US election with the run-up to this November.
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.
Colonialism and conflict in Biafra
Millie Lord considers the role of British colonialism in the triggering of deadly conflict.
The Contagious Diseases Acts: an early feminist cause
Eden James writes about a legal battle that galvanised the early feminist movement.
Exposing Leopold: the campaign for the Congo
Ruby Senker tells the story of the 20th century’s first international human rights movement.
Undocumented and Irish in the 80s
J. Stoltzfus compares the visa lotteries that supported Irish-Americans in the 1980s with the situation of undocumented migrants today.
Relearning Black Power
Owen Frost reframes the Black Power movement we’re mistaught in school.
The economics of a white empire
Zeena Starbuck explains how the policies meant to hold the British Empire together are reappearing in the conversations around Brexit.
Thinking up the menstrual cup
Verity Limond talks through how the cup became the star of modern menstrual fashion.
The problem with progress
Olivia Billard considers the myth of positive progress in the history of the Industrial Revolution.
The path of most resistance: women fighting fascism
Corinne Painter tells the stories of three of the women instrumental in the earliest struggles against fascism.
Divide and rule in British India
Devanshi Chengappa discusses the role of British colonialism in the tensions between Muslims and Hindus in the Indian subcontinent.
Thatcher and the cleaving of the working class
Alex Walker writes about the divisions Thatcherism opened between members of once tight-knit communities.
The history of Harlem’s Black synagogues
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.
How the kingdom was united
Lucy Graham tracks the troubled history of the relationships between the four nations.
The new radicalism of the 17th century
Daisy Church considers the importance of the civil war period in England in the development of a popular politics.
The environmentalist class
Thomas Banbury traces the class divisions in contemporary environmentalist movements back to the reactions against enclosure in the 16th century.
The quiet erosion of the right to silence
Since the 1600s, the right to avoid self-incrimination has been a fundamental part of British civil liberties. Tom Brautigam explains how it’s come under threat.
