History Workshop Podcast

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Radical history, argued in public.

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History Workshop Podcast brings historians and contributors into conversations about how the past is made, used, contested, and shared. Its recent episodes move from trade union archives and public history to decolonial Eastern Europe, colonial controversy, revolutionary women, and the History Workshop Journal’s own radical inheritance.

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About History Workshop Podcast

History Workshop Podcast is built around the idea that history is a public practice with political consequences. It does not treat the past as background. It treats it as material people use to argue, organize, teach, remember, and challenge power. Recent episodes repeatedly return to the History Workshop movement and to History Workshop Journal, especially around the journal’s 50th anniversary and 100th issue. That self-reflection gives the show an unusual shape: it is both about history and about the methods, collectives, costs, and convictions that make historical work possible. One episode links the movement to the New Left, the Trades Union movement, feminist politics, gay liberation, oral history, and international conversations about radical historical practice. Another looks back at the practical life of an editorial collective, from housing and copying costs to the slow circulation of submitted articles. The show also follows history into exhibitions and public space. “Reimagining Trades Union History” centers archives, the Combination Acts, the TUC Library collection, and the problem of turning two centuries of workers’ collective action into a public exhibition. “What Is Public History Now?” moves through Bloomsbury with a walking-tour approach to radical history and place. Other episodes widen the frame. “Teaching Eastern Europe Through A Decolonial Lens” brings decolonial history, Ukraine, nationalism, Holocaust history, queer history, and indigeneity into the same argumentative field. “Approaching British Colonial History During the Culture War” focuses on controversies around British colonial history, heritage institutions, National Trust properties, and public response. “She Who Struggles” adds revolutionary women, socialist and feminist upheavals, and the absence of women from many global histories of revolution. The show’s register is thoughtful and formal without being neutral. It is comfortable with complexity. It is also explicit about fascism, authoritarianism, Gaza, climate crisis, refugees, misogyny, racism, homophobia, and transphobia when those pressures shape the historical question at hand. History Workshop Podcast is best understood as a forum for radical historical thinking, where scholarship is measured partly by what it helps people see in the present.

Made for: Suits a listener who wants rigorous history connected to activism, institutions, archives, teaching, and present-day political conflict. It fits those comfortable with scholarly conversation and unresolved debate.

What sets it apart: Its center of gravity is not only historical subject matter, but the practice of making history collectively and politically. The show stands apart by treating journals, exhibitions, walking tours, classrooms, oral histories, and editorial work as part of the historical field.

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Listen to leading scholars, activists and writers talk about the practice of history and reflect on the social forces that are changing our world.

History Workshop movementHistory Workshop Journaltrade union historypublic historyBritish colonial historydecolonial Eastern Europeradical and collective historywomen in revolutionary movements

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History Workshop Around the World

History Workshop in Turbulent Times

Working Collectively Then and Now

Reimagining Trades Union History

Teaching Eastern Europe Through A Decolonial Lens

Friends in Common

Changing the Record

Can A Rock Band Make History?

The 1984 Islington Nursery Strike

Uncovering the Socialist Anthropocene

The Socialist Anthropocene

War and the Mind

Writing History in Sri Lanka Now

In Search of Waguih Ghali

The Siege Of Sidney Street

Pioneering Transgender History

An Indian Historian's Ordinary Life

In The Shadow Of Diagnosis

UK Disability History and Heritage Hub

Before The Light Fades

Now Here

Rosalux History

Translating the French Revolution

Workshop Of The World

On Direct Action

Archives, Archiving, And Decolonisation

The Horse Tamer of Grosvenor Square '68

Dig Where You Stand

Walking Against the Expulsive Environment

No Recourse To Public Funds

She Who Struggles

Bad Gays

Rethinking Place in British Labour History

What Is Public History Now?

Rethinking Gender in British Labour History

Rethinking Race in British Labour History

Spies For Peace

Intimacy And Economic Life

Bureaucracy, Emotion, And Sexual Violence

Approaching British Colonial History During the Culture War

Black Internationalisms

Transnational Suffragettes

Activism And Sexual Violence

Useful Knowledge

Moving Stories

Knowing Nature

Ridley Road

Daring to Hope: Sheila Rowbotham and 1970s Women's Liberation

Black Feminisms

Black British Histories