What a joy it's been to edit this piece written by Clara Vlessing!
Currently en route home from what has been an exciting and thought-provoking workshop on working-class history in Spain! Organised by Mari Nieves García Pintor at UPV/EHU in Bilbao.☀️
I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period
This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue.
To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.
Amidst all the gloom (in HE & far beyond), I am delighted to have been awarded an AHRC Curiosity Grant for the 2-year project 'One Century of Anarchist Sexual Politics in Global Perspective', with a fantastic team: Richard Cleminson, Robert Kramm, Kathy Ferguson and @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social.
How can we end ageism? By understanding how the Victorians invented it.
Helen Kingstone examines the work of nineteenth-century Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant.
'...a lively, scholarly account, full of bold personalities and surprising connections'
Thanks to Neal Ascherson for this generous review of 'The Paris Commune in Britain' in the @lrb.co.uk today
Particularly pleased to read that the book took Neal to the Newman Arms in search of the Communards 🍻
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!