History Workshop Podcast
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History Workshop Podcast
Listen to leading scholars, activists and writers talk about the practice of history and reflect on the social forces that are changing our world.
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Changing the Record
How has paperwork served over time as a tool for empowerment and change? A roundtable of historians, archivists, and activists explore its unexpected...
Can A Rock Band Make History?
A Glasgow rock band, The Tenementals, explore what it means to create radical history in song.
The 1984 Islington Nursery Strike
Why did 155 nursery workers employed by London's Islington Council go on strike in 1984 - and why has their story been forgotten?
Uncovering the Socialist Anthropocene
How can the visual arts shed light on the historical relationship between socialism and the natural world?
Writing History in Sri Lanka Now
How might historians of the 2022 People's Uprising in Sri Lanka explore ongoing struggles for accountability and justice?
In Search of Waguih Ghali
Exploring the enigma that was the Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali, author of the classic postcolonial novel Beer in the Snooker Club.
The Siege Of Sidney Street
How did a 1911 East End police shootout affect the history of anarchism in London and beyond?
Pioneering Transgender History
How did trans history find a foothold in the academy - and what is its future? Susan Stryker discusses with Claire Potter on this episode of the Why N...
An Indian Historian's Ordinary Life
The novelist Amitava Kumar on history, fiction, India, and ordinary lives.
In The Shadow Of Diagnosis
How has modern queer life been affected by its encounters with psychiatric power?
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub
How can we investigate disability history and heritage?
Now Here
What is the future of common spaces and community gathering spots in the UK? At a time when so many spaces that once were shared are now either dereli...
Rosalux History
What possibilities do podcasts offer as vehicles for radical history? Albert Scharenberg of the Rosalux History podcast discusses.
Translating the French Revolution
How might we translate the French Revolution in ways that open it up to the 21st century?
Workshop Of The World
A new collection of Raphael Samuel's essays illuminates 19th century Britain and the politics of "people's history".
On Direct Action
What does the accidental death of an anarchist in London in 1894 tell us about forgotten histories of direct action?
Archives, Archiving, And Decolonisation
What can two different stories of postcolonial archival practices tell us about memory, history-making, and decolonisation?
The Horse Tamer of Grosvenor Square '68
What can a single image of a lone female protestor tell us about the "Battle of Grosvenor Square" in 1968?
Dig Where You Stand
What can we learn from a 45-year-old Swedish manifesto that helped inspire the movement for workers' history?
Walking Against the Expulsive Environment
The political climate greeting refugees to the UK is no longer simply hostile - it is expulsive. David Herd explores.
No Recourse To Public Funds
What lessons might the past hold for migrants seeking childcare in the UK but having No Recourse to Public Funds?
She Who Struggles
Who do you think of when you hear the phrase “revolutionary women”? If you cast your mind back to the movers and shakers of the revolutions that marke...
Bad Gays
Histories of gay men, lesbians, queer and trans people often focus on the heroic. But what about the gay characters whose impact on history was far mo...
Rethinking Place in British Labour History
What do we mean, in post-Brexit Britain, when we talk about "ordinary working-class places"? Valerie Wright, Ewan Gibbs, and Diarmaid Kelliher explore...
What Is Public History Now?
In September 2022, a group of public historians from outside and inside the academy met at London’s Birkbeck College in the heart of Bloomsbury to ask...
Rethinking Gender in British Labour History
What happens to narratives of British labour history when we incorporate stories of women? Laura Schwartz and George Stevenson explore.
Rethinking Race in British Labour History
To mark International Workers Day, we explore three forgotten moments in British history that spotlight the intertwined histories of labour and race.
Spies For Peace
Sixty years after breaking into a government bunker to expose secret state planning for nuclear conflict, Nic Ralph speaks for the first time about a...
Intimacy And Economic Life
What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and descri...
Bureaucracy, Emotion, And Sexual Violence
How can historians meaningfully and ethically research past experiences of sexual violence? What tools do they need to uncover a subject so intensely...
Approaching British Colonial History During the Culture War
How might we understand the origins and the impact of current controversies raging in Britain over changing interpretations of British colonial histor...
Black Internationalisms
Since the twentieth century, and perhaps even dating back further, the phrase 'black internationalism' has served as shorthand for a range of debates...
Transnational Suffragettes
The struggle for women's right to vote is often thought to have been waged on a national level. But how was this movement transnational? In what ways...
Activism And Sexual Violence
What is the history of activism against sexual violence? What kinds of strategies have survivors employed to combat it and to counter the stigma that...
Useful Knowledge
How has the concept of "useful knowledge" shaped the two-hundred year history of Birkbeck College London - and workers education more generally? Joann...
Moving Stories
How can the stories of families illuminate the histories of migrations? Julia Laite and guests discuss in this episode of the History Workshop Podcast...
Knowing Nature
In this episode of the History Workshop Podcast, Elly Robson is in conversation with Professor Vinita Damodaran and Professor Harriet Ritvo to look at...
Ridley Road
Ridley Road has recently gained attention as the subject of a new BBC drama about the revival of fascism in 1960s London and the anti-fascist action t...