History Workshop Podcast

What can two different stories of postcolonial archival practices tell us about memory, history-making, and decolonisation?

What can a single image of a lone female protestor tell us about the "Battle of Grosvenor Square" in 1968?

What can we learn from a 45-year-old Swedish manifesto that helped inspire the movement for workers' history?

The political climate greeting refugees to the UK is no longer simply hostile - it is expulsive. David Herd explores.

What lessons might the past hold for migrants seeking childcare in the UK but having No Recourse to Public Funds?

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 marked the 20th century, what women’s names come to mind? Sorcha Thomson and others discuss their book She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World.

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 more ambiguous, or complicated, or out-and-out bad? Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey, hosts of the Bad Gays podcast and authors of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, discuss what those complicated lives can tell us about the dynamics of queer history and the formation of sexual identities.

What do we mean, in post-Brexit Britain, when we talk about "ordinary working-class places"? Valerie Wright, Ewan Gibbs, and Diarmaid Kelliher explore.

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 ‘What is public history now?’ In this special edition of the History Workshop Podcast, we explore the politics, the perils, and the possibilities of doing history in public.

What happens to narratives of British labour history when we incorporate stories of women? Laura Schwartz and George Stevenson explore.