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How are researchers using digital history methods to write new global histories of peace internationalism?
Henrike Vellinge discusses the collaborative methods of The Peace Movements & Decolonisation Project at the University of Leiden.
How are researchers using digital history methods to write new global histories of peace internationalism?
Henrike Vellinge discusses the collaborative methods of The Peace Movements & Decolonisation Project at the University of Leiden.
'Digital history offers promising avenues into exploring and highlighting the incredible diversity of participants in peace internationalism.'
Henrike Vellinga on the collaborative methods of The Peace Movements & Decolonisation Project at the University of Leiden.
This is the third article in our new featured series, Rethinking Internationalisms, in collaboration with the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalism: Histories and Pluralities (2024-2026) project.
OTD in 1965 the Dhufar revolution was launched.
From the HW archives @marralsham.bsky.social examines the solidarity network that exposed Britain's "secret" counterinsurgent war against the revolutionaries in Dhufar.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
"Although officially apolitical, the JOC energetically evangelised its economic vision in factories and tenements, portraying social Catholicism as the ‘human’ alternative to capitalism, communism and fascism."
Sam Young on the Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne.
OTD in 2020 the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protests.
From the HW archives Madge Dresser revisits the statue's particular history.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/slavery/cols...
A day to celebrate?
My dad wrote his MA dissertation about the Flemish version of this, and while —like a good daughter— I will keep nagging him that it is not really history but glorified journalism, that Catholic social teaching around the dignity of work remains so fascinating to me. Troubles all the binaries.
Madge Dresser argues that statues of slave traders, such as Edward Colston, often served complex local and civic objectives, which were inextricable from historical processes which silenced the voices...
