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Kamil Shah from Kingston, a history student at King's College, Cambridge, decided to don a vest and chain for his debut on the long-standing BBC 2…
Working Class History: Everyday acts of resistance and rebellion Edited by Working Class History, forward by Noam Chomsky, PM Press, Oakland, 2020, 328pp. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle”, proclaimed Karl Marx in his opening to The Communist Manifesto. Records of class struggles date back to strikes by construction gangs during the reign of Ramses III in Ancient Egypt on October 13, 1357 BC. Formed in 2014, the Working-Class History Project (WCHP) set up a data base of historical events, as a way of understanding how working-class struggles ...
Mayor Andy Burnham describes paper’s foundation as an ‘important piece of British social history’ Celebrate 200 years of independent Guardian journalism, and help power our future – make a contribution, or become a subscriber. The Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, speaks at the unveiling, beside the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian The Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, speaks at the unveiling, beside the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian Tue 11 May 2021 13.33 EDT Last m...
In an interview to mark 200 years of The Guardian, editor Katharine Viner spoke to Press Gazette about the secret of its longevity. The Guardian enters its third century in a secure financial position (with just under £1bn in the bank and sustainable losses running at £10-20m annually). And while print circulation continues to decline (to just over 100,000 copies per day), it claims more than 1m paying readers and is the sixth biggest news website in the world with 317m website visits in March 2021. PG: Congratulations on 200 years in print. What do you think is the secret to The Guardian...
The version of Regency England that viewers are accustomed to, both onscreen and in books, is one that excludes BIPOC and queer characters. Piper Huguley, a Black English professor and author of both contemporary and historical romance that features Black characters, believes that the genre’s popularity and homogeneity come from an unhealthy relationship between publishers and readers. “If a publisher only prints out a certain kind of thing, then the readers are only going to want that,” she says. This leads publishers to believe “that’s what readers want,” adds Cat Sebastian, a w...