Social history
Revolutionary Acts by Jason Okundaye review – bringing Black gay history to life
This groundbreaking debut tells the stories of six radicals who were among the first out Black gay men in Britain
Lanre Bakare
29, Feb, 2024 @7:30 AM
‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online
Correspondence taken from 130 captured ships reveal details of the stories of seafarers and their families in the 1700s
Caroline Davies
23, Nov, 2023 @3:15 PM
Jose Harris obituary
Historian of the British welfare state and biographer of its architect William Beveridge
Stuart Jones
30, Oct, 2023 @5:48 PM
From poverty clogs to killer heels: the 1,000-year story of British footwear
A new exhibition traces the social history of the nation through 60 pairs of shoes
Richard Brooks
29, Oct, 2023 @12:00 PM
Museum of London identifies man who raised alarm over Great Fire
Exhibition at museum’s new site will focus on Thomas Dagger and other ordinary Londoners caught up in 1666 inferno
Esther Addley
01, Sep, 2023 @5:00 AM
Stones made for Victorian project to help Irish workers given listed status
‘Travellers’ rest’ stones were idea of Warrington doctor and part of wider scheme to help migrant workers
Mark Brown North of England correspondent
18, Aug, 2023 @5:00 AM
‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme
Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?
Andrew Dickson
26, Jul, 2023 @3:00 PM
‘I felt his vibration!’ Sonny Roberts, the UK’s first Black music studio owner
The Jamaican immigrant producer and entrepreneur, who is being honoured with a blue plaque this week, laid the foundations for a vibrant British reggae scene
Charis McGowan
26, Jul, 2023 @6:00 AM
Evelyn Hofer/ Johny Pitts reviews – secs and the great big pulsing city
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
When Hofer left Britain, her work exploded with the colour and energy of urban America – while Pitt’s Black Britain odyssey took him from Edinburgh to Dover and beyond
When Hofer left Britain, her work exploded with the colour and energy of urban America – while Pitt’s Black Britain odyssey took him from Edinburgh to Dover and beyond
Charlotte Jansen
22, Jun, 2023 @3:50 PM
Jill Longmate obituary
Other lives: Writer who chronicled the lives of contemporary lesbians
Diana Souhami
18, May, 2023 @4:36 PM
Think women have never had it so good? You should take a look at medieval days | Martha Gill
History shows that progress in gender equality is neither steady nor inevitable
Martha Gill
18, Mar, 2023 @7:00 PM
Baby boomers reflect on past times and future fears | Letters
Letters: Dr Richard JF Bewley on the benefits of growing up in a country with a more equitable distribution of wealth, while David Young reworks beans on toast. Plus letters from Richard Churcher, Jim McManners and Colin Tipping
18, Nov, 2022 @4:59 PM
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