Trip 41: Trust Your Gut
How did capitalism separate our minds from our bodies? Nadia, Jem and Keir investigate.
Tag: history
The Untold Histories of Black Gay Britain
Jason Okundaye goes behind the scenes of Revolutionary Acts, an intimate queer history that dismantles stereotypes of Black Britishness.
Who Dares to Rewrite 40,000 Years of History?
Archaeologist David Wengrow on the heretical proposals inside his book The Dawn of Everything.
Engine of Immortality
What will be lost when the internet renders print culture obsolete?
This Man Predicted the Future. Aaron Bastani Meets Peter Turchin
History is not just one thing after another. Historians spend lifetimes figuring out how X event in medieval France impacted Y event in 20th century Polynesia – but none of these historians have truly ‘done the math’ like this week’s guest. Coming from a background in applied mathematics, Peter Turchin has gathered an unprecedented amount […]
Trip 32: Myth
Keir, Nadia and Jeremy consider the stories we just can’t shake, from Oedipus to Brexit.
Liberty, Democracy, Piracy
Did the Enlightenment begin at sea? Eleanor Penny talks to historian-from-below Marcus Rediker.
Everything We Think We Know About Human History Is Wrong | Downstream With David Wengrow
Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive until agriculture emerged some 12,000 years ago. But what if that was wrong? What if cities existed before agriculture and our hunter gatherer ancestors enjoyed a far more complex existence than we thought? […]
Keir Starmer’s Betrayal of Workers is Nothing New for Labour
Jodie Collins
Since its beginnings, Labour has been no friend to workers.
How State-Sanctioned Multiculturalism Killed Radical Anti-Racism in Britain
Ilyas Nagdee & Azfar Shafi
Enter the rainbow nation.
The ‘Colston 4’ Won by Invoking History – And Using It to Build a Strong Legal Defence
Priyanka Raval
The history of the slave trade was integral to the defence case.
History, Humanity, Heresy
Archaeologist David Wengrow upends everything we thought we knew about social evolution in a new book written with David Graeber.
Operation Legacy: How the British Elite Re-Wrote World History
Conservatives are obsessed with the idea that the left wants to erase Britain’s history. Yet that’s precisely what happened when its empire collapsed after 1945, as re-writing the past became a matter of state policy executed on an industrial scale. Here Aaron Bastani explains what was called ‘Operation Legacy’ and how those who care about […]
Riots and the Red Flag
#ACFM’s Keir Milburn offers a bloody and boisterous workers’ history of Leeds.
From War to Constitution—and the Problem of England
Linda Colley takes James Butler through the age of war and revolution which gave birth to the modern constitution – and peers into England’s political future.
The Little-Known History of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass is More Relevant Now Than Ever
Sophie K Rosa
We must resist the Tory crackdown on our access to land.
After Storming Heaven
James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.
The Tories Think Decolonising the Curriculum Means Censorship. They Couldn’t Be More Wrong
Ali Meghji
Decolonisation isn't "taking bits out" of history, as one minister recently put it. It's filling in the gaps.