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History Workshop Journal
Journal Prestige (SJR): 1.278

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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 1363-3554 - ISSN (Online) 1477-4569
Published by Oxford University Press

[425 journals]

Editorial: Remembering The Radical Seventies
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  Pages: 1 - 1
  Abstract: In this issue, as we approach the hundredth issue and the fiftieth anniversary of History Workshop Journal, we are beginning a series of reflections on the decade in which both the movement and the Journal emerged with a mini-feature encompassing two memoirs of the radical Seventies as experienced by two historians in different parts of the world. The acclaimed historian Martin Duberman, now in his nineties, reflects on his participation in an obscure moment of antiwar activism in the Vietnam-era United States. Manas Ray follows on from his much-anthologized 2002 memoir ‘Growing Up Refugee: On Memory and Locality’ (HWJ 53) to explore his years at college in Calcutta/Kolkata in the midst of the Bangladeshi War.
  PubDate: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad007
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
Queer Hostages for Hanoi
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  Pages: 2 - 22
  Abstract: AbstractThis memoir of peace activism in the United States in the early 1970s, as the Vietnam war was drawing to a close, focuses on the difficulties of sustaining an effective anti-war campaign. It describes several key protests: sit-ins outside the Senate chamber in Washington, after one of which the writer was briefly jailed; the attempt to secure the Nobel Peace Prize for all those Americans who refused to fight in Vietnam; and in particular a keenly debated and eventually unsuccessful initiative, led by sexual dissidents, to enlist prominent Americans to travel to Hanoi to deter American bombing of the North Vietnamese capital. Based on his own experiences and recollections, Martin Duberman discusses the overlap between the peace movement, the emerging gay and feminist movements, and the sporadic attempts to ally with the Black liberation movement. He speculates, as well, about the overall effectiveness of the anti-war movement in helping to bring the disastrous conflict in Vietnam – which claimed more than two-million lives – to a close.
  PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbac035
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
The Volatile Seventies: A Memoir of the Naxalbari Uprising in Calcutta and
the Bangladesh War
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  Pages: 23 - 50
  Abstract: My steps falter, my head swims, walls on walls, cornices on cornices,Pavements change at midnight,On my way home, houses within houses, feet within feet, heart within heartNothing more – (so much more') – but well before thatMy steps falter, my head swims, walls on walls, cornices on cornices,Pavements change at midnightOn my way home, houses within houses, feet within feet, heart within heartNothing more.“Hands up” – put up your hands – till someone picks you upBlack cars within black cars, and another black car inside.Rows of windows, doors. Graveyards – skeletons topsy-turvyWhite worms within bones, life within worms, death within life – hence Death within deathNothing more.“Hands up” – put up your hands – till someone picks you up andFlings you out of the car, but inside a different car,Where someone always waits – like a banyan sapling clings to the plasterSomeone or the other, someone you do not knowLies in wait, like a firm bud lurks behind leavesWith traps of golden cobwebs, ready to garland you–You’ll be wedded at midnight, when pavements change –Steps falter, head swimsWalls in walls, cornices in cornices.Imagine, the train still, stations rushing by, stars shining beside dimming light domesImagine, shoes walking, feet still – this, that, any poppycockImagine children carrying corpse-bearing palanquins to Nimtola –And beyond,The old lined up for a wedding dance –No time for cheer, not a happy time this.Just then,My steps falter, my head swims, walls on walls, cornices on cornices,Pavements change at midnightOn my way home, houses within houses, feet within feet, heart within heartNothing more.Shakti Chattopadhyay, translated by Nandini Gupta11
  PubDate: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbac036
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
St Wilgefortis and Her/Their Beard: The Devotions of Unhappy Wives and
Non-Binary People1
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  Pages: 51 - 74
  Abstract: This image (figure 1) of St Wilgefortis hangs in the abbey Church of St Etienne in Beauvais. We see a bearded saint, dressed in late medieval women’s clothing, with luscious long plaits, curvaceous breasts and a look at once of suffering, relief and compassion.
  PubDate: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad005
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
“Both Your Sexes”: A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans
Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain
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  Pages: 75 - 100
  Abstract: AbstractUsing the life-writing of historian and playwright Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983), this article develops the concept of a non-binary historical methodology. It argues that historians should take gender as a historically contingent category to allow alternative logics of embodiment, selfhood, desire, and relationality to be more clearly seen. Drawing on trans studies, the article situates Byrne within contemporary conversations about universal bi-sexuality within sexology and psychoanalysis. Her rewriting of the psychosexual model in her memoir, which underwrote a claim to ‘both her sexes’, represents one of the paths foreclosed by the mid-century turn to the gender/sex/sexuality model.
  PubDate: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbac033
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
Freud in Dublin' The Formation of Psychoanalysis in Ireland,
c.1928–1993
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  Pages: 101 - 130
  Abstract: On 26 June 1933, Samuel Beckett’s father, William, died of a heart attack, and during the following months, the 27-year-old writer began to suffer from panic attacks and depression. By the end of the year he was experiencing a range of physical problems including cysts and boils that did not respond to medication, and he woke frequently in the night with a pounding heart and drenched in sweat, an experience so disturbing that he was only able to sleep if his brother, Frank, slept in the same bed as him.11 The crisis became acute one winter afternoon, as Beckett explained:After my father’s death, I had trouble psychologically…I was walking up Dawson Street and I felt I couldn’t go on moving. So I had to rush in to the famous pub in Dawson Street, Davy Byrne’s. So I went into the…pub and got a drink – just to stay still. And I felt I needed help. So I went to Geoffrey Thompson’s surgery. Geoffrey at that time was still working in Dublin, working in the Lower Baggot Street Hospital as a heart specialist. And he wasn’t there…So I waited outside. When he got there, I was standing by the door. He gave me a look over, found nothing physically wrong. Then he recommended psychoanalysis for me.Beckett had already told his friend, Geoffrey Thompson, about his angry feelings towards his mother and wider family, and Thompson believed that Beckett’s problems – now including constipation and an inability to urinate – arose from his emotional and personal difficulties rather than a physical source. But, as Beckett later remembered, ‘Psychoanalysis was not allowed in Dublin at that time. It was not legal. So in order to have psychoanalysis, you had to come to London…I don’t know why but I finished up with Bion to whom I used to go, I think, twice a week…I used to lie down on the couch and try to go back in my past.’22 Both Beckett and Thompson believed that the only place psychoanalysis was available in Britain and Ireland at that time was London, and so Beckett moved to a flat in Chelsea in early 1934 to be ‘analysed’ by Wilfred Ruprecht Bion, who would later become one of the most influential psychoanalysts in post-war Britain.
  PubDate: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad006
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
The Nakba and the Zionist Dream of an Ethnonational State
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  Pages: 131 - 153
  Abstract: Dream was a key word with which Jews expressed their sentiments in the historic year 1948. It described the improbable turn of events of Jewish history from Auschwitz to independence. Binyamin Etzioni grew up in Tel Aviv. Born in 1926, he was eighteen when he joined the Palmach, the elite troops of the Haganah, the primary militia in the Yishuv (the Jewish community in pre-1948 Palestine). On 12 May 1948, just two days before the British departure from Palestine and the declaration of the State of Israel, he wrote: ‘Independence for Jews – this is after all a visionary idea that is almost ungraspable, something we could experience [in the past] only spiritually… All the time the Biblical verse echoes in my ears: “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like unto dreamers”. How suitable are these ancient words to our own time’.11 But this dream of Jewish political independence was tied up with another dream – that of the Jewish state with fewer Palestinians.22 Avraham Riklin, a commander who fought in the battle of Tiberias, described in his diary on 18 April 1948 his emotion as he entered the city’s deserted Arab quarter following the forced departure of the Palestinians: ‘The joy was enormous. I could not believe my eyes. The fleeing of the Arabs from the city seemed to me like a dream. There was a sense of elation among all [the soldiers]’.33
  PubDate: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbac034
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
Thrift, Morality, and Migration in the Barbados Savings Bank
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  Pages: 154 - 174
  Abstract: AbstractThere has been little historiographical attention to working-class banking in the Caribbean. This article adds to the scholarship by considering the founding and use of the Barbados Savings Bank by working-class Black Barbadians. Colonial administrators hoped the bank would teach formerly enslaved Barbadians how to properly transition into the free wage labor force and sought to encourage household arrangements dependent on a male breadwinner who would use the bank for long-term savings. Using the new depositor ledgers of the Barbados Savings Bank, I argue that everyday Barbadians instead used this financial institution as a family repository of targeted savings for the purpose of emigration, defying colonial desires of a dependent workforce organized in patriarchal single-income households.
  PubDate: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad004
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
Revolution in 1525: Thomas Müntzer and Mühlhausen
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  Pages: 219 - 221
  Abstract: MüllerThomas T., Mörder ohne Opfer. Die Reichsstadt Mühlhausen und der Bauernkrieg in Thüringen, Petersberg2021, Michel Imhof Verlag, 655 pp. (Murderers without Victims. The Imperial City of Mühlhausen and the Peasants’ War in Thuringia).
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad003
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
An Anarchist for the Outside World
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  Pages: 222 - 224
  Abstract: Scott-BrownSophie, Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy, London and New York: Routledge, 2023
  PubDate: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad001
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
John Gillis and the Personal as Historical
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  Pages: 225 - 231
  Abstract: Photograph by Peter Ralston, reproduced courtesy of Tina Gillis.
  PubDate: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbad002
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2023)
Missionaries, the State, and Labour in Colonial Kenya c.1909–c.1919: the
‘Gospel of Work’ and the ‘Able-Bodied Male Native’
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  Pages: 175 - 196
  Abstract: AbstractThis article is a study of the role of the Church of Scotland Mission within the labour system in colonial Kenya at the start of the twentieth century. With their ‘Gospel of Work’, their government-funded technical apprenticeship scheme, and a series of legal-political interventions to regulate the settler economy, the Mission played a crucial role in the augmentation of the colonial state and capitalism in Kenya’s highlands. Examining how this ostensibly ‘benign’ Christian project became entangled within colonial networks incarceration, coercion, and abuse, this article offers a fresh perspective onto established histories of labour, violence, and colonial rule in Kenya.
  PubDate: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbac024
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2022)
Laughter of the Oppressor: Humour, Whiteness and Masculinity in Late
Rhodesia
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  Pages: 197 - 218
  Abstract: AbstractIn the 1960s and 1970s Rhodesian settlers engaged in a violent struggle to maintain white minority rule. Humour and jokes offer insights into how different sections of the settler population attempted to articulate a distinct Rhodesian-ness in this historical situation. I argue that jokes told by white men, for white men, both expressed an idealized white masculinity and engaged fears over its impossibility. In exploring these dynamics I show how humour can be used to explore the production and regulation of social identities and the symbiotic, unnerving relations between white power and white anxiety.
  PubDate: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbac027
  Issue No: Vol. 95 (2022)