History Workshop Podcast

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History Workshop Podcast episodes

October 29, 2025 Friends in Common
How might we reassess the importance of friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
53 min
September 29, 2025 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 radical history.
1 hr 17 min
July 16, 2025 Can A Rock Band Make History?
A Glasgow rock band, The Tenementals, explore what it means to create radical history in song.
36 min
June 18, 2025 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?
1 hr 2 min
June 17, 2025 Uncovering the Socialist Anthropocene
How can the visual arts shed light on the historical relationship between socialism and the natural world?
34 min
May 14, 2025 The Socialist Anthropocene
Did socialism destroy nature?
34 min
April 16, 2025 War and the Mind
Is war innate to human psychology?
1 hr 2 min
February 25, 2025 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?
56 min
November 13, 2024 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.
43 min
October 23, 2024 The Siege Of Sidney Street
How did a 1911 East End police shootout affect the history of anarchism in London and beyond?
44 min