How does one start a new field of history? For centuries historians have overlooked the history of Romani Americans. Ann Ostendorf shows how it is the responsibility of all of us to help solve the case of (the) missing Romani American history.  www.historyworkshop....

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....

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....

As the war in Ukraine continues to dominate global headlines, we bring you Jo Laycock's article from our archives. Jo offers a historical framework through which to understand displacements from and in Ukraine. www.historyworkshop....

Does anyone have access to the book: Italian masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo Del Prado, 2014? I just need to know how many pages the section on Ribera's El Tacto is for my citations! #arthistory #historyhelp search.worldcat.org/title/867710...

'Without the efforts of ‘freelance’ underground operatives like Glory and Virginia, it is possible that it might have taken South Africa longer to gain its independence.' Tshepo Moloi explores the history of South Africa's forgotten liberators. www.historyworkshop....

"I discovered Durham’s [1983] talk to the History Workshop just weeks after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States – and the historical insights it offers feel uncannily relevant today." Daniel Jones on revisiting Martin Durham's early research on women and fascism 🗃

Thank you @newsagents.bsky.social for a fantastic evening last night! The perfect way for @maryknewman.bsky.social and I to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. Brilliant to cap the trip off by bumping into @lewisgoodall.com in the hotel lift this morning! @maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social

What happens when we try to preserve the peddlers' calls which made up the soundscape of Peking? As Odila Schröder writes 'As is the case with most local art forms, the process of heritagisation has fundamentally changed the art form itself'. www.historyworkshop....

The first article in @inoutofpractice.bsky.social's new series (From Place to Place) is out and it's such as fascinating piece if you're a scholar of soundscapes like me! Can we preserve a soundscape? What happens to those sounds when we try? Fantastic article ft. great illustrations!

When mudlarkers explore the foreshore of the Thames one of their main finds is printer's type. But what can these finds tell us about the radical history of printing? Peter Wollweber investigates what we can learn from these discoveries. www.historyworkshop....

How did the movements for bodily autonomy by those without the capacity to conceive - travesties, marinas, and gays - contribute to Argentina’s recent legalisation of abortion? www.historyworkshop....

Elly Robson is joined by Nazmia Jamal and Syeda Ali to discuss queer education: the violent silence of Section 28, how it was resisted, and what lessons we can draw from it today. www.historyworkshop....

Jessica Hinchy writes on how colonial officials sought to eliminate and ‘fix’ the gender identity of ‘Hijras’, who are often termed ‘transgender’, and the contemporary resonance of this process. www.historyworkshop....

What is gained when 20th century Queer history is brought into the classroom? Claire Holliss discusses her experience of visiting the archives to find sources for her A-Level students. www.historyworkshop....

What can the biography of William McIlroy, a gay humanist from post-war Northern Ireland, tell us about the negotiation of non-conforming in the face of inflexible religious conservatism? www.historyworkshop....

How can oral history interviews between different generations of LGBTQ+ people aid our understanding of the ongoing impact of Section 28? www.historyworkshop....

How have Indigenous and queer traditions of resistance come together in the celebration of Pride on the Norwegian-Russian border? www.historyworkshop....

John Marnell on MaThoko’s old post box, which played an important role as a key communication node for the nascent LGBT movement in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. www.historyworkshop....

In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month. In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth www.historyworkshop....

What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'? Editorial Fellow Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories called From Place to Place: www.historyworkshop....

It's a big day! This intro took a while to put together, a lot of ideas, and lots of thoughts on itinerance while 'wandering and working' in some ways myself... plus I realise definitions are difficult and scary! I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts! DMs are open!

My fantastic colleague at @historywo.bsky.social, Vivien Chan (@inoutofpractice.bsky.social) has just launched this incredible new series - 'From Place to Place'! Check out the introductory article: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/public-space...

Just one week to go until AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The Second Symposium! 4 February 10:30 to 15:00 Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College Register online to attend: occt.web.ox.ac.uk/ev...

At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating. From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)! (Part 1) 🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈

How can scriptwriting be used to understand early modern legal power? Lucy Clarke uses practice-as-research to explore how arrests did (or didn't) perform power.