History
From dole to gold
24 August 2020 Today’s welfare system is notoriously punitive, but in the 1980s it provided the basis of future Olympic success, argues Peter Goulding
Democracy in focus: a post-austerity state
8 January 2020 The UK needs a people’s constitution to defend rights and enable us to fulfil our potential, writes Hilary Wainwright
Radical Roots – Corbyn and the Tradition of English Radicalism
14 October 2019 The ideas underpinning Corbynism are deeply embedded in the English radical tradition. Reclaiming this tradition can play a key part in reinvigorating our ambitions for the future. By MICHAEL CALDERBANK with HILARY WAINWRIGHT
Whose history? Why the People’s History Museum is vital
5 July 2019 In recent months, high-profile figures have claimed museums should be ‘neutral’ spaces. Thank goodness, then, for the People’s History Museum, writes Danielle Child
Rewriting history: museums and ‘neutrality’
5 July 2019 Museums are socially vital precisely because of their political nature, says Siobhan McGuirk
Marx’s Capital at 150: an invitation to history
30 September 2017 Radhika Desai says Capital by Karl Marx is still an essential read on the 150th anniversary of its publication
Power Games: A Political History
5 December 2016 Malcolm Maclean reviews Jules Boykoff's Power Games: A Political History
The abolition of Art History A-Level will exacerbate social inequality
29 November 2016 This is a massive blow to the rights of ordinary kids to have the same opportunities as their more privileged peers. Danielle Child reports.
The myth of the 1970s
23 October 2014 In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?
Brushing history against the grain
31 May 2013 We can’t decipher the present without examining its foundations in the battles of the past, writes Mike Marqusee
Beyond the Fragments is more than history
21 April 2013 The book was part of challenging the left's methods of organisation, writes Alice Robson - and that struggle continues today as it is republished
