Radical History as Collective Endeavour

This roundtable records a conversation among a group of current History Workshop Journal editors, held initially over Zoom, with some remarks added later to the online transcript. With longtime editor Marybeth Hamilton serving as interviewer, the discussion brought together the seven historians who were then the most recent additions to the HWJ editorial collective: Elly Robson Dezateux, Meleisa Ono-George, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Rob Priest, Hannah Skoda, T.J. Tallie, and Imaobong Umoren, all of whom joined in spring 2021. The aim of the roundtable was to explore the perspectives of a new generation of editors on the impact and the legacy of HWJ and the history workshop movement – and on where the journal and the movement might place their energies in years to come. Two additional points to situate what follows. First, as luck (or otherwise) had it, the conversation was scheduled for 6 November 2024, the day after the US presidential election. As a result, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House and all that already seemed to portend about the practice of radical history very much loomed over this discussion. Second, in the weeks that followed this roundtable, the HWJ editorial collective expanded once more, welcoming seven additional members: Justin Bengry, Jacob Dlamini, Claire Eldridge, Laura Forster, Joe Moran, Camilla Schofield, and Benjamin Thomas White. We look forward to continuing this conversation as the History Workshop project faces the challenges of a volatile future.

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