Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories
British-Pakistani homeworkers and activist campaigns, 1962–2002
The Basaglia Law. Returning dignity to psychiatric patients: the historical, political and social factors that led to the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy in 1978
Sown Without Care: Dutch Eugenicists and their Call for Optimising Developmental Conditions, 1919–1939
Reshaping the narrative: Tracing the historical trajectory of HIV/AIDS, gay men, and public health in Sweden
A Chinese immigrant led the fight for women’s suffrage — then couldn’t vote
Women of every age and background packed onto the sidewalks, with the oldest following the procession in carriages and the youngest being pushed in strollers by their mothers. Hundreds more people peered out of their windows upon the nurses, teachers, writers, social workers and students. “There were women who work with their heads and women who work with their hands and women who never work at all. And they all marched,” the New York Times reported the next day.
Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry
Peggy Maxie, first Black woman elected to WA state House, dies
Rep. Peggy Maxie, who represented Seattle in the state House for six terms, carries a campaign sign. After leaving the Legislature, Maxie worked as a consultant on community projects and as a mental health therapist and marriage counselor.
Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History
Seneca Nation Elder Reflects on a 51-year Child Welfare Career
Terry Cross with a group of children attending a NICWA-sponsored community gathering in 2001.
Assessment and Care Management: Its history and context within Social Work in Scotland today
DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
The Queerness of Home: Gender, sexuality & the politics of domesticity after World War II
The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History
Emotion as a tool for humanising histories of the marginalised: a case study of industrial schools in Colonial Victoria
Turncoats and traitors, rogues and renegades: reviewing labour’s lost leaders in reform-era Yorkshire
Warp and Weft
Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience
A visit to Squirrel Hill, 1963
Graduate students for the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work visited Squirrel Hill in the early 1960s to study its Jewish community. Above: The 2000 block of Murray Avenue, showing Pinsker’s, M. Fogel Meats, Murray News Stand, Stern’s Café, Kablin’s Market, and other shops — Nov. 3, 1965.
Motherhood confined: Maternal health in English prisons, 1853–1955
Letters and embroidery allowed medieval women to express their ‘forbidden’ emotions
The Conversation | British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23
Above: A miniature of the Erythrean Sibyl, writing.
A war against the natural order: Joseph Nicolosi, Reparative Therapy, and the Christian Right.
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory
Lessons from the History of British Health Policy
How Black Communist Women Remade Class Struggle
As founders and leaders of unions, parties, and militant organizations—such as the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), the Trade Union Unity League, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, Sojourners for Truth and Justice, and many others—these women offer powerful guidance in a time when deep polarization makes many despair. Above: Louise Thompson Patterson speaking in Berlin, Germany.
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949
Willard Stanton Small (1870–1943): The man who made the maze
What a legendary historian tells us about the contempt for today’s working class
EP Thompson: the idea of people possessing the capacity to act upon the world was central to his life work.
Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia
Living with Disabilities in Colonial America
The neglected object: A history of the concept of dreams in Polish psychiatry and psychology in the interwar period, 1918–1939
Turning archival: The life of the historical in queer studies
Writing the History of Emotions Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent
Reflections on the use of patient records: Privacy, ethics, and reparations in the history of psychiatry
E83-4: Angry Brigade
Double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group.
The Role of Women as Agents and Beneficiaries in the Hungarian Family Planning System (1914–1944)
Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America
A History of Thinking on Paper
The African Roots of Marijuana
The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia’s New York
E82: Workmates collective
Watergate, 1973-1974
The Birth Certificate: An American History
E77-80: Italian resistance
A four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.
Aiding Ireland
