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Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.

This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
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Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.

This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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"The Working Ladies' Guild for Necessitous Gentlewomen" sounds 100% like a twee historical fantasy detective series. In fact, maybe it should be one
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New publishing opportunity!

The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
'The Second World War itself supplied Wilson with income and recognition for some years. Her wartime journalism and knowledge about refugees made her a woman of interest.'

Ellen Ross on the career of British Quaker Francesca Wilson.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.

This piece accompanies Ellen Ross and Tammy M Proctor’s recent article in History Workshop Journal Volume 99.
On Writing and Relief Work
Ellen Ross on the humanitarian activities of a British Quaker, Francesca Wilson, in the Spanish Civil War and beyond.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.
New publishing opportunity!

The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
New publishing opportunity!

The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
OTD in 2020, 'doomscroll' was included in the Oxford English Dictionary 'Words of an Unprecedented Year' report.

From the archives, Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron explore how digitally reassembling the archive can offer an intervention in the era of the doomscroll:
YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE
Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron revive resistance in the concepts of 'history' and 'technology', through digitally reassembling the archive.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Palestinians experience the displacement of the 2020s genocide not as a singular event, but as part of a repeated cycle."

Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Absolutely crucial piece for historians and heritage practitioners, regardless of whether you study Palestine
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"Studying this history enables us to reassert the true political factors driving the violence, moving away from its wrongful construction as timeless and inevitable, and to focus instead on human actions and responsibility."
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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We know this. 'Mairg nach bhfuil ina' dhubhthuatha'..O'Bruadair knew. #writinggenocide.
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Taught @momoulton.bsky.social's "Both Your Sexes" @historyworkshop.org.uk article twice today.

Man and woman, sex and gender, past and present: no binary looked the same at the end of each of the deep discussions about history and politics this brilliant work made possible.
“Both Your Sexes”: A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain
Abstract. Using the life-writing of historian and playwright Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983), this article develops the concept of a non-binary historic
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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"While loyal to Marxism’s foundations, his theory was deeply influenced by the decolonial movements of his time, from Vietnam and Algeria to Mozambique and Latin America".

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's forgotten national liberation theorist, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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"Somewhat similar to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, he was theorising a place for the 'organic intellectuals' of a revolutionary movement".

Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Somewhat similar to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, he was theorising a place for the 'organic intellectuals' of a revolutionary movement".

Peyman Vahabzadeh on the Marxist Iranian anticolonial thinker and revolutionary, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"While loyal to Marxism’s foundations, his theory was deeply influenced by the decolonial movements of his time, from Vietnam and Algeria to Mozambique and Latin America".

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's forgotten national liberation theorist, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment?

Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
A Forgotten Rebel
Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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This is a fine article. Got some quotation gems.

“the past is not just an archive of facts to be policed for accuracy; it is a terrain where power is contested”
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
How have debates on Buddhism's place in Sri Lanka taken shape?

Bhadrajee Hewage on the politics of history, identity and belonging.
History, Myth and Identity in Sri Lanka
What might a constructive conversation about Buddhism's place in Sri Lankan identity look like? Bhadrajee Hewage on the politics of myth-making.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This is very good and you should read it.
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Verslag van een experiment met Co-Pilot: AI kan nog geen serieus historisch artikel schrijven.
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
What might a constructive conversation about Buddhism's place in Sri Lankan identity look like?

Bhadrajee Hewage on the politics of myth-making.
History, Myth and Identity in Sri Lanka
What might a constructive conversation about Buddhism's place in Sri Lankan identity look like? Bhadrajee Hewage on the politics of myth-making.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM