It's that time of year again... the History Workshop team present our "Radical Reads" for 2025! www.historyworkshop.... Image source: Openverse.

HWJ is 50 years old next year and we're about to launch a fab new series of articles and podcasts all in celebration of the 100th issue! Come along in January and wish us a Happy Birthday 🥳

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration 31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Have just discovered that my article on Valerie Solanas, art, madness, and feminism (in HWJ issue 100) can also be accessed outside the paywall here: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/56...

I've got a new article on Valerie Solanas and her place in feminist history, part of the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Another Velvet Underground cover

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

A Penguin editor looking around their office this morning.

RIP David Johansen youtu.be/GvmvMFXWzc8?...

trump: I’m going to protect women women: no thank you trump: I’m gonna do it women: please don’t trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team women: what trump: and brought back andrew tate women: why trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

The New Left "was an avowedly socialist endeavour which... sought to operate largely outside conventional political parties and electoral politics" Andrew Whitehead brings together 50 years of writing on the New Left, in a free-access issue of History Workshop Journal. www.historyworkshop....

We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.

The first of the series is out! Odila's piece on Beijing peddler calls and how heritagisation takes street life to a different place... can you really capture a sound mark? What gets lost in the end when you try?

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States — theonion.com/fbi-uncovers...

If I study anxiety via threat-biased attention, the word "biased" gets me flagged. You can't design a study of humans without using at least one of the terms on the banned list, which means that biomedical, brain, social science research is now on ice in the USA

The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?

These keywords could show up in the text of ANY grant involving human participants. If you say you're going to study men and women, you get flagged. If you say you're going to control for socioeconomic status - totally standard practice - you get flagged. Disability? Flagged.

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Please no www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮