History Workshop Podcast

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. Listen now, and subscribe to the History Workshop podcast on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.

In this episode, Marybeth Hamilton speaks to Alice Echols, author of the ground-breaking book Daring to Be Bad, about the rise and fall of radical feminism in the pivotal year of 1968. How did demands for the liberation of women emerge from the tumult of radical protest? What tensions and conflicts did the early movement contain? How do its demands and its methods resonate fifty years later? Echols reflects: "What people don't understand about the late 1960s, and what they don't understand about the women's movement, is that there is a very different logic at work, and it is not a logic of intersectionality. It is a logical of organizing around your own oppression. Anything else is seen as liberal. And liberal is understood as compromised, tainted, and to be avoided." Listen now, and subscribe to the History Workshop Podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes and Stitcher.

In this episode, the first in a series, we turn to historic passions: the strong and sometimes obsessive pull of curiosity about the past. Over the next few months, we'll be speaking to people who have made that curiosity their life's work - within the historical profession or beyond.

Nell Irvin Painter is uniquely qualified to reflect on the possibilities beyond professional history. After an esteemed career as an historian of race and identity, she retired from her professorship at Princeton and, at age 64, enrolled at art school. Over the last decade she has reinvented herself as a visual artist, her work now held in collections across the US. We talk to her about history, art, imagination, politics, and the limits and possibilities of historical truth. (Photo credit: John Emerson)

In the first part of this two-part episode, we speak with Professor Richard Drayton (King's College, London) and ask him to put white supremacy in historical perspective. What are the long term intellectual, social and political roots of white supremacy in Britain and the Americas? How has white supremacy factored in the political coalition that supports Donald Trump, and in the anti-immigrant sentiment that led to Brexit? What are the stories and cultural trends we need to know in order to understand how white supremacy operates in Anglo-American culture? Drayton offers historical context and explanation for these questions and more. Listen now, and subscribe to the History Workshop Podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes and Stitcher.

In this episode, we have recordings from a recent session of History Acts – a new radical history forum that works as gathering place for historians and activists. Their goal is to bring radical historians and contemporary activists together to find new ways for academics to engage with contemporary struggles, to learn from activists, and to see what expertise and institutional resources historians can use to provide active solidarity.

In this podcast you will hear key excerpts from 'History Acts 05 – Homes for All', featuring Eva and Millie from the Hackney Digs(a private renter support and campaign group), Professor Jerry White (Birkbeck) and Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL).

For more information about History Acts, visit www.historyacts.org

In this episode of the History Workshop Podcast, a unique perspective on the memoir and biography, and the art of writing about lived experiences. Alison Light tells a very personal story about her ongoing efforts to write a memoir about her relationship with Raphael Samuel, who passed away in 1996. She uses their marriage as a kind of a lens through which to see both their shared past and her future. She also reflects on our ideas of ‘personal life’ – suggesting instead that the public sphere cannot be separated from private experience, especially in the process of writing a memoir. As we share more and more of our lives online, this is something we are all increasingly familiar with.

The first episode of the History Workshop Podcast. In this episode, six scholars in the early stages of their careers gather to discuss a big problem plaguing higher education: precarious working conditions for university lecturers and teachers. It's an issue that impacts thousands across the UK... if these conditions are left as they are, the quality of education in universities can only diminish, and we could be denied promising scholarship from a new generation of experts.

Listen to Laura Schwartz, Harry Stopes, Rob Waters, Alva Traebert and Jack Saunders in conversation with History Workshop Online editor, Hannah Elias.

Recorded at the Radical Histories/Histories of Radicalism conference at Queen Mary University of London.