History Workshop Podcast

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 v...

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. Listen now on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher....

What can history tell us about the politics of monetary innovations like cryptocurrencies? Do the poor benefit from inclusion in the dominant monetary system, or would they fare better devising their own means of exchange? Rebecca Spang looks back to the era of the French Revolution to explore the power dynamics of decentralized currencies. Listen now, and subscribe to the History Workshop Podcast...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In a walking tour consisting of ten ten-minute episodes, we explore the streets of Marx's London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain's capital. Guided by the historian Thomas Jones, we track Marx's life and times from Leicester Street to Highgate Cemetery, and in the process - 200 years on from his birth - we reflect on the continuing resonance of his ideas. List...

In this episode, Marybeth Hamilton speaks to Alice Echols, author of the ground-breaking book Daring to Be Bad, about the rise and fall of radical feminism in the pivotal year of 1968. How did demands for the liberation of women emerge from the tumult of radical protest? What tensions and conflicts did the early movement contain? How do its demands and its methods resonate fifty years later? Echol...

In this episode, the first in a series, we turn to historic passions: the strong and sometimes obsessive pull of curiosity about the past. Over the next few months, we'll be speaking to people who have made that curiosity their life's work - within the historical profession or beyond. Nell Irvin Painter is uniquely qualified to reflect on the possibilities beyond professional history. After an est...

In the first part of this two-part episode, we speak with Professor Richard Drayton (King's College, London) and ask him to put white supremacy in historical perspective. What are the long term intellectual, social and political roots of white supremacy in Britain and the Americas? How has white supremacy factored in the political coalition that supports Donald Trump, and in the anti-immigrant sen...

In this episode, we have recordings from a recent session of History Acts – a new radical history forum that works as gathering place for historians and activists. Their goal is to bring radical historians and contemporary activists together to find new ways for academics to engage with contemporary struggles, to learn from activists, and to see what expertise and institutional resources historian...

In this episode of the History Workshop Podcast, a unique perspective on the memoir and biography, and the art of writing about lived experiences. Alison Light tells a very personal story about her ongoing efforts to write a memoir about her relationship with Raphael Samuel, who passed away in 1996. She uses their marriage as a kind of a lens through which to see both their shared past and her fut...

The first episode of the History Workshop Podcast. In this episode, six scholars in the early stages of their careers gather to discuss a big problem plaguing higher education: precarious working conditions for university lecturers and teachers. It's an issue that impacts thousands across the UK... if these conditions are left as they are, the quality of education in universities can only diminish...