// Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ // || enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ || \\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\https://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3ml4dvl7e6i2y"[...] the environmental work discussed in this article depended on forms of inattention that continue to hold back fundamental change." Paul Merchant uses oral history to examine the links between corporate sponsorship and environmental activism in 1980s and 1990s Britain. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/environment-animals/pond-dipping-in-the-anthropocene/05 May 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4dvl7e6i2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3ml3prui67b2t"Many environmental organisations in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s were sponsored by companies, including oil companies." Paul Merchant uses oral history to examine the links between corporate sponsorship and environmental activism in 1980s and 1990s Britain. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/environment-animals/pond-dipping-in-the-anthropocene/05 May 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3prui67b2thttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkprks6kmq2i'What routes would our lives have taken had it not been for the steering of these undercover officers? There's a whole array of traumatic damage that they've done.' Jessica, a member of Police Spies Out Of Lives, on the lasting damage caused by intimate surveillance. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/undercover-policing-and-the-british-left/30 Apr 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkprks6kmq2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkpj6kejog2l'Theoretically, their objective was to collect information on public order - but the vast majority of their reports were personal information about people attending meetings. It's worth highlighting just how gross and intrusive this was.' Chris Brian on the Spycops scandal. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/undercover-policing-and-the-british-left/30 Apr 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpj6kejog2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkp23qm66q27The Spycops scandal revealed a shocking history of police abuse, from monitoring activists to forming sexual relationships under false identities. Marybeth Hamilton speaks to Jessica, who unknowingly had a relationship with an undercover officer, and researcher Chris Brian. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/undercover-policing-and-the-british-left/30 Apr 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkp23qm66q27https://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkmjmth3w325OTD in 1770, British scientists landed in Botany Bay and encountered eucalyptus for the first time. In this article from our archives, Karen Fisher and Meg Parsons explore how the tree was later incorporated into colonial schemes for ecological control. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/environment-animals/the-swamp-and-the-gum-tree/29 Apr 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmjmth3w325https://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkkqmxuptz2x'[E]fforts to grapple with Goldman’s politics co-exist with evocations that are less political, celebrating the lifelong anarchist as an impressively outspoken woman above all else.' Clara Vlessing examines the cultural afterlives of Emma Goldman and Louise Michel. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/public-history/anarchist-afterlives/28 Apr 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkqmxuptz2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkkiaojg272i'To this day Michel remains the only woman to have a Parisian metro station named after her [...] Two years ago, in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, a golden statue of Michel emerged from the Seine.' Clara Vlessing on the cultural legacies of anarchist women. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/public-history/anarchist-afterlives/28 Apr 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkiaojg272ihttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mkk6dunwp22yWhat should we make of the gendered cultural legacies of revolutionary women? Clara Vlessing considers the lives and afterlives of anarchists Emma Goldman and Louise Michel. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/public-history/anarchist-afterlives/28 Apr 2026 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkk6dunwp22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk5xjmmg2s2n"Genocide. I keep turning the word over. It always seems to arrive too late. By the time it reaches us, by the time it becomes part of our soundwaves, our background ambience, countless lives have already gone." suzan meryem rosita on the vocabulary of genocide and war. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-history/genocide-is-a-verb/23 Apr 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5xjmmg2s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk5h3scz2s2qHow might historians write nonviolently about violence? In this personal essay, suzan meryem rosita reflects on the vocabulary of genocide and war. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-history/genocide-is-a-verb/23 Apr 2026 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5h3scz2s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk5xjmmg2s2n"Genocide. I keep turning the word over. It always seems to arrive too late. By the time it reaches us, by the time it becomes part of our soundwaves, our background ambience, countless lives have already gone." suzan meryem rosita on the vocabulary of genocide and war. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-history/genocide-is-a-verb/23 Apr 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5xjmmg2s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk5rxfmpr22cThe beautiful images in this essay are all courtesy of Tammam Azzam. www.tammamazzam.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5rxfmpr22chttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk5h3scz2s2qHow might historians write nonviolently about violence? In this personal essay, suzan meryem rosita reflects on the vocabulary of genocide and war. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-history/genocide-is-a-verb/23 Apr 2026 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5h3scz2s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk3hlnktqs2cTo mark Lesbian Visibility Week here is a selection of articles from our queer history archive 🌈🗃️ First up is @sexhistorian.bsky.social discussing the slippery history of the dental dam and lesbian health activism. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-history/the-slippery-history-of-the-dental-dam/22 Apr 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3hlnktqs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk3hlnktqs2cTo mark Lesbian Visibility Week here is a selection of articles from our queer history archive 🌈🗃️ First up is @sexhistorian.bsky.social discussing the slippery history of the dental dam and lesbian health activism. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-history/the-slippery-history-of-the-dental-dam/22 Apr 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3hlnktqs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mjlt2nz73223In August 2025, our editorial collective spent an afternoon exploring the contents of the History Workshop archive held @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social 🗃️ Marybeth Hamilton, Elly Robson, Mary Katherine Newman, Marral Shamshiri, Vivien Chan and Beckie Rutherford reflect on their radical findings. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/museums-archives-heritage/reflections-on-a-radical-archive/16 Apr 2026 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlt2nz73223https://bsky.app/profile/historyworkshop.org.uk/post/3mk35outouk2tOTD in 1970, the first Earth Day took place across the USA, one year after an oil spill off the coast of California killed 10,000 seabirds, dolphins, seals, and sea lions. Activists and historians discuss solutions to the environmental crisis in this podcast from the History Workshop archive. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/history-acts-environment/22 Apr 2026 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:lzuyzsvmqfcmitq2jlsdqtlm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk35outouk2t