History Workshop Podcast

How might historical research into past abuse serve the ends of restorative justice? What kinds of challenges do historians face in gathering testimonies of traumatic experience? Katherine O’Donnell and Claire McGettrick are scholars, activists, and members of Justice for Magdalenes Research, an organization dedicated to unearthing the histories of the women and girls who passed through Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Over the past decade they have worked tirelessly to gather survivors’ testimonies, to educate the public about the abuses endured, and to support survivors’ campaigns for redress. They discuss their work in this episode of the History Workshop podcast.

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Can the migrant detention centres employed by the Trump administration on the US/Mexico border be legitimately labelled “concentration camps”? What is a concentration camp? In what circumstances are the use of the phrase legitimate, and when does it obscure more than it reveals? Historian Dan Stone explores those questions in this episode of the History Workshop podcast.

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How was our understanding of sexuality in history transformed by the liberation movements of the late twentieth century and by the challenge of the AIDS epidemic? The historian and activist Jeffrey Weeks explores those questions in the latest episode of the History Workshop podcast. Subscribe and listen now on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.

What is the role of populism in shaping resistance to Trump and Trumpism? Who are the new progressive leaders emerging from the American grassroots, and what are their historical antecedents? D D Guttenplan - who covered the 2016 presidential election for The Nation - explores these questions in the latest episode of the History Workshop Podcast.

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How was violence essential to sustaining the British Empire, and why is teaching this imperative in today's world? Historian Kim Wagner, author of Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre, discusses this question in conversation with Aditya Ramesh on the latest episode History Workshop Podcast. Subscribe and listen now on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher.

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Imperial soldiers played a significant and increasingly well acknowledged part in the Second World War, but what about the women of the British empire? What stories might global and feminist histories of the Second World War reveal?

Listen to Professor Yasmin Khan deliver the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2019, "Women On The Frontline Of Empire: a feminist history of the Second World War".

For episode notes and more information, visit: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/women-on-frontline-of-empire/.

It’s 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre, in which peaceful protesters for democratic reform in Manchester were attacked by cavalry, with 18 killed and over 600 injured. Ballads were crucial tools in the reporting and commemoration of Peterloo, cementing its place in working-class and radical history.

In this episode, we hear Kate Gibson talk to ballad experts - Dr Alison Morgan, Brian Peters and Peter Coe - about the radical history of Peterloo and its ballads.

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As students take to the streets to demand action on climate change, listen to activists and historians discuss solutions to environmental crisis at both global and local levels.

This conversation took place in April 2018 as part of History Acts, a forum encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences between radical historians and contemporary activists. For more information about History Acts, please visit www.historyacts.org.

Episode notes and more information can be found at http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/history-acts-environment/.

As the UK Labour Party charts a new direction under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, activists and historians discuss the history and future of the Left in government.

This conversation took place in January 2018 as part of History Acts, a forum encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences between radical historians and contemporary activists. For more information about History Acts, please visit www.historyacts.org.

Episode notes and more information can be found at http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-left-in-government/.

What happens when you set out to turn family history into historical fiction? For novelist Emma Darwin, who spent seven years trying to fictionalize her insanely eminent ancestors, the result was a creative disaster, an epic struggle with notions of historical truth that she has chronicled in a memoir, This is Not A Book About Charles Darwin.

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Episode notes and more information can be found at http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/historical-fiction-emma-darwin/.