
Writing Difficult Subjects
How can historians write with compassion and ethical clarity about issues of sexual violence? Ruth Beecher and Julie Wheelwright discuss their creative writing toolkit as a resource for tackling difficult subjects.
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History Workshop hosts History Workshop Podcast, a news show with 93 episodes published.

How can historians write with compassion and ethical clarity about issues of sexual violence? Ruth Beecher and Julie Wheelwright discuss their creative writing toolkit as a resource for tackling difficult subjects.

What can we learn about queer lives and queer history from the call logs of the UK's first LGBTQ+ helpline? Tash Walker and Adam Zmith on their award-winning podcast The Log Books.

What do the materials unearthed in the UK's Undercover Policing Inquiry reveal about the abuse of social justice activists by the surveillance state? Two core participants in the ongoing inquiry explore its history from

What were the links between the History Workshop movement in Britain and radical history initiatives around the globe?

What is the value of history at times of global upheaval? Four historians discuss their reflections on this in History Workshop Journal's 100th issue.

How did History Workshop Journal's editorial collective sustain its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks discuss.

A new exhibition on 200 years of British trades union history spotlights surprising moments in the tumultuous history of workers organising for change.

Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history? Historians Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková discuss.

How might we reassess the importance of friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

How has paperwork served over time as a tool for empowerment and change? A roundtable of historians, archivists, and activists explore its unexpected radical history.

A Glasgow rock band, The Tenementals, explore what it means to create radical history in song.

Why did 155 nursery workers employed by London's Islington Council go on strike in 1984 - and why has their story been forgotten?

How can the visual arts shed light on the historical relationship between socialism and the natural world?



How might historians of the 2022 People's Uprising in Sri Lanka explore ongoing struggles for accountability and justice?

Exploring the enigma that was the Egyptian writer Waguih Ghali, author of the classic postcolonial novel Beer in the Snooker Club.

How did a 1911 East End police shootout affect the history of anarchism in London and beyond?

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 Now podcast.

The novelist Amitava Kumar on history, fiction, India, and ordinary lives.
Adam Zmith
podcast producer, writer, and author of Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
1 appearance on this show
Anna Hajkova
associate professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick · Holocaust Living History Workshop
1 appearance on this show
Susan Stryker
Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona
1 appearance on this show
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