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OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49.
In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey (@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018).
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Tomorrow Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, a month long celebration of the arts.
Rachael Scally's article reveals the legacies of slavery in one of the festival's key venues, the Royal Infirmary (now the Edinburgh Futures Institute).
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Are you an early-career historian with a love for radical, public history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
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Tomorrow Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, a month long celebration of the arts.
Rachael Scally's article reveals the legacies of slavery in one of the festival's key venues, the Royal Infirmary (now the Edinburgh Futures Institute).
www.historyworkshop....
What role did Indigenous peoples have in European circuses?
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social examines how Lakota performers engaged with interwar German circuses like Sarrasani.
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How is itinerance tangled up with hierarchies of race, labour, and cultural legitimacy?
Sabine Hanke (@sabinehanke.bsky.social) examines the history of Lakota performers in interwar Europe and their fraught relationship with the Sarrasani Circus.
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The spectacle of the circus has long been controversial - but how did performers resist the 'exoticised' commodification of their identities?
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social examines the history of Lakota performers in the Sarrasani circus in interwar Germany:
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It's a pleasure to include Sabine's research @sabinehanke.bsky.social in the series! The history of the circus, while problematic in contemporary times, is clearly a site where you can find important intersecting identities and frictions.
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The spectacle of the circus has long been controversial - but how did performers resist the 'exoticised' commodification of their identities?
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social examines the history of Lakota performers in the Sarrasani circus in interwar Germany:
www.historyworkshop....
Huge congratulations to the Lionesses for winning the Women's Euro finals against the Spanish team in Switzerland tonight!
A throwback to Tim Tate's piece on the history of Women's Football in Britain:
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As cities across the UK reverberate with the sound of pots and pans to protest the starvation of Palestinian people in Gaza, a piece from the archive on the humble pot and pan as tools for protest by Matthew Kerry:
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With the recent increase of far-right groups targeting housing for asylum seekers in the UK, Kieran Connell's @kieranconnell.bsky.social piece published earlier this year, on Labour, immigration and the far-right after Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech, resonates again:
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As we wind down over the summer, we're featuring some of pieces you might have missed since the beginning of 2025!
From Feb, as part of our series with History Workshop at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Tshepo Moloi on South Africa's forgotten liberators:
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OTD in 1981, the Philippines ratified the UN Refugee Convention and Protocol.
From the archive, Ria Sunga explains how, in the 1950s, the Philippines used its own definitions as an act of nation-building:
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Marking the end of school and the beginning of summer for many students in the UK, a piece from the archive by Sorcha Thomson.
In the summer of 1969, 120 European students travelled to a camp in Jordan to learn from Palestinians about the Palestinian Revolution.
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Are you an early-career historian with a love for radical, public history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
Applying for this job was one of the best decisions I've ever made!
Drop me a message if you're interested and want to learn more about our current team and how it all works.
"The Tenementals are interested in using that which has been discarded in the rubbish heap and putting it to good use, whether that's old guitars or old ideas. We want to blast those ideas and old guitars back into the future."
David Archibald on creating radical history through music.
What might a work of history look like and sound like if it were shaped in music? 🗃️🎵
In our new podcast David Archibald discusses the role of music in Glasgow’s working-class past and the historical links between music and radicalism.
"The Tenementals are interested in using that which has been discarded in the rubbish heap and putting it to good use, whether that's old guitars or old ideas. We want to blast those ideas and old guitars back into the future."
David Archibald on creating radical history through music.
Yes - applicants must be in the third year of their PhD or beyond (including postdoctoral) and will not normally have a full-time, permanent academic post.
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What might a work of history look like and sound like if it were shaped in music? 🗃️🎵
In our new podcast David Archibald discusses the role of music in Glasgow’s working-class past and the historical links between music and radicalism.
📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
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Why is Romani American history missing? And why should we endeavour to find it?
In this new article Ann Ostendorf explains how recognising the experiences of Romani people would enrich our understanding of all eras and regions of American history.
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.
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Why is Romani American history missing? And why should we endeavour to find it?
In this new article Ann Ostendorf explains how recognising the experiences of Romani people would enrich our understanding of all eras and regions of American history.
I'm sure you've read my feelings on this in a British context.
To build a new field of history, the work must be seen as worth while. In anglophone universities Romani history is not.
Sadly, I think it will remain an undeveloped field that established academics occasionally play with.
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....
Yes, that's correct. With the proviso that we do not limit applicants by the number of years since the PhD awarded, but define 'early career' in a more expansive sense (see above question)
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First page of Michaela Kalcher's article: ‘The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, History Workshop Journal
Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025):
Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024).
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