The Great Labour Unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield
Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940
Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Universal Principles of Depicting Oneself across the Centuries: From Renaissance Self-Portraits to Selfie-Photographs
Mary C. Ousler: Keeper of the Census Records
Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers: Decade Three | 1984-1993
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New Zealand Council for Education and Training in Social Services 1993
Jeannette Rankin was sworn in 100 years ago as the first congresswoman
Vox | US House of Representatives
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born near Missoula in western Montana. After graduating from the nearby University of Montana, she followed a restless path to Boston, San Francisco, New York (where she earned a graduate degree in social work from Columbia University), Washington state, and then back to Montana to successfully advocate for women’s suffrage.
Social Work in London, 1869-1912: A History of the Charity Organisation Society
Institutionalising senile dementia in 19th-century Britain
Family, demography and labour relations
Lessons from the past: Family involvement in patient admission and discharge, Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, 1900–1912
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Beechworth Asylum. Photo circa 1867
Please don’t dominate the rap: the Grateful Dead and the Columbia University student strike
Charities and the Commons
Review of The last asylum: A memoir of madness in our times.
My mother before me
The History of Emotions in Australia
The rise of living alone and loneliness in history
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
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UK: Education in 1911
Radical Casework: A Theory of Practice (1993)
The Two Hundred and Fifty Year Transition: How the American Empire Became Capitalist
The Very Drugged Nazis
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Adolf Hitler presenting Theodor Morell, his personal physician, with the Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross at his headquarters, 1944
The Meaning of Resilience: Soviet Children in World War II
Selling Under the Swastika: advertising and commercial culture in Nazi Germany
The Real Irish-American Story Not Taught in Schools
Common Dreams | Sketch: The Irish Famine: Interior of a Peasants Hut
To support the famine relief effort, British tax policy required landlords to pay the local taxes of their poorest tenant farmers, leading many landlords to forcibly evict struggling farmers and destroy their cottages in order to save money.
Barbara Gittings, Gay Rights, and DSM Reform
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Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, and John E. Fryer in disguise as Dr. H. Anonymous.
The Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union and the Challenge of Working Class Political Party Formation and Electoral Politics, 1965–1977
War, Colonialism and the Emotions in Australian History
Women’s Liberation at the Grass Roots: a view from some English towns, c.1968–1990
She was right: How Catherine Corless uncovered what happened in Tuam
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“Showing the Light to the Filipinos”
HERB | Boston Herald, 1899
From 1898 to 1902, the United States waged a bloody war in the Philippines. Filipinos wanted independence from centuries of Spanish colonial rule. U.S. leaders, however, saw the opportunity to control the Philippines and gain access to markets in Asia.
Singing the Lesbian Blues in 1920s Harlem
Collectors Weekly | QueerMusicHeritage.us
Bentley with bandleader Willie Bryant in 1936.
The 1970 Women’s Strike: A Bit of History
Common Dreams | M Abramson/LIFE Images Collection/Getty
At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 53nd Street, a large group of women hold a banner that reads ‘Women of the World’ at the Women Strike for Equality demonstration, New York, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women (and men) marched along Fifth Avenue towards Bryant Park to demand equal opportuntity in employment and social equality.
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Phillips Collection
Women’s International Activism during the Inter-War Period, 1919–1939
The Moral Economy of Money between the Gold Standard and the New Deal
The Women’s Movement and ‘Class Struggle’: gender, class formation and political identity in women’s strikes, 1968–78.
An English Magazine Portrays Irish Americans as “Wild Beasts”
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“The Most Recently Discovered Wild Beast,” wood engraving, Judy: Or, The London Serio-Comic Journal, 3 August 1881.
Who Pays Writers?
Dissent | Library of Congress
Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant WPA Administrator in charge of the Government Creative Work Program, testifies to the House about the value of federal subsidies for creative work, 1938
British Social Documentary Photographer “Tish” Murtha Documents the Lives of Marginalised Communities from the Inside
Light Stalking | ©Ella Murtha
Youth Unemployment (1981)
Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck: The Scandalous History of Sex-Ed Movies
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Representing Poverty and Inequality: The legacy of Charles Booth
LSE | Wikimedia
Herndon & Atlanta Life Building, Atlanta, GA | Former home of Atlanta School of Social Work
LoC | Historic American Buildings Survey
The structure originally housed retail shops, medical and dental offices, the headquarters for the Atlanta Urban League, the Atlanta School of Social Work, and a 34-room hotel.
The psychologist as a poet: Kierkegaard and psychology in 19th-century Copenhagen.
Before the “boom”: Readings and uses of Vygotsky in Argentina (1935–1974).
Fighting for Recovery: foremothers and feminism in the 1970s
Grace Abbott: American social worker (1934)
The Irish Remain “The One Element That Won’t Mix”
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C.J. Taylor, “The Mortar of Assimilation–And the One Element that Won’t Mix,” chromolithograph, Puck, 26 June 1889, available from Michigan State University Museum, Immigration and Caricature: Ethnic Images from the Appel Collection
Taka Takanashi
LoC | National Photo Company Collection
Madam Taka Takanashi, one of the delegates to the International Congress of Working Women, from Japan.