History Workshop Journal Latest Issue

The latest issue of “History Workshop Journal” for the autumn of 2012 is published. This journal is affiliated to “The History Workshop Movement”.
The History Workshop is a movement founded by Raphael Samuel. Its main role was to promote the historiographical tradition known variously as History from below, social history, the history of everyday life, or simply the people's history. Samuel defined the movement as being "the belief that history is or ought to be a collaborative enterprise, one in which the researcher, the archivist, the curator and the teacher, the 'do-it-yourself' enthusiast and the local historian, the family history societies and the individual archaeologist, should all be regarded as equally engaged." It was founded at Ruskin College, Oxford (the trade union college for mature students) in 1966.
Annual History Workshops, sometimes attended by hundreds or even thousands of people, took place in different British cities between 1966 and 1994. In 1976 Samuel and others launched History Workshop Journal, now published by Oxford University Press. Originally sub-titled 'A Journal of Socialist Historians', it later changed the sub-title to 'A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians' before dropping the sub-title in 1994.
Since its launch in 1976, History Workshop Journal has become one of the world's leading historical journals. Through incisive scholarship and imaginative presentation it brings past and present into dialogue, engaging readers inside and outside universities. HWJ publishes a wide variety of essays, reports and reviews, ranging from literary to economic subjects, local history to geopolitical analyses. Clarity of style, challenging argument and creative use of visual sources are especially valued.
History Workshop Online was launched in 2010, publishing shorter and more contemporary-focused articles than appeared in History Workshop Journal.
History Workshop Journal table of contents for autumn 2012; Vol. 74, No. 1 is as follow:

Articles and Essays
“Reborn John?: The Eighteenth-century Afterlife of John Lilburne”, Edward Vallance
“Queering the History of Marriage: the Social Recognition of a Castrato Husband in Eighteenth-Century Britain”, Helen Berry
“Popular Radicalism, Religious Parody and the Mock Sermon in the 1790s”, Peter Denney
“Enlightenment and the Uses of Woman”, Barbara Taylor
“Ghost-Hunters and Psychical Research in Interwar England”, Joanna Timms
“Glad to be Gay Behind the Wall: Gay and Lesbian Activism in 1970s East Germany”, Josie McLellan
“When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in RepublikaSrpska 1995–2007”, Catherine Baker
‘Imperial History and the Human Future”, Richard Drayton

History at Large
“Recognizing in the Inferno That Which is Not: Reflections on Writing a Memoir”, Phil Cohen
“Living in the Soviet Century: Moshe Lewin, 1921–2010”, Ronald GrigorSuny

Announcements
History on the Line
“Myth and Morality in the History of the Italian Resistance: the Hero of Palidoro”, Alessandro Portelli

Announcements

Historic Passion
“Puck of Pook’s Hill”, Frances Harris

Reviews
“Cunningly Crafted Histories”, Janet L. Nelson
“Once an Empire”, the Berkeley British Empire Collective,
“Progress, Interrupted”, Amanda Behm
“Keeping Down the Demos”, Donald Sassoon
“Working Children”, Nicola Verdon
“Rediscovering the Workplace”, Laura Schwartz
“Survivors”, Tracey Loughran
“Scholarly Exiles”, Mira L Siegelberg

Corrigendum

Report Back
“Textiles, Techne and Power in the Andes, University of London and the British Museum, London, 15–17 March 2012”, Luciana Martins
“Femmes et genre en contexte colonial, XIXe–XXesiecle (Women and gender in colonial context, 19th–20th centuries), Centre d’histoire de Science Po, Paris, 19–21 January 2012”, OphélieRillon
“From Uniformity to Reform: Education in the Very Long Eighteenth Century (1660–1870), IHR, London, 15 October 2011”, Mark Burden and Michele Cohen
“Port City Lives: Mobilities, Networks, Encounters, Blackburne House, Liverpool, 29–30 June 2012”, Jo Stanley

Obituary
“Dorothy Thompson (30 October 1923–29 January 2011)”, Bryan D. Palmer

 
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