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HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL ARCHIVE (RS 9) ©Bishopsgate Institute Catalogued by Various, 2020. RS 9 History Workshop Journal Archive 1975-2008 Name of Creator: History Workshop Editorial Collective. Extent: 143 files Administrative/Biographical History: History Workshop Journal (HWJ) was founded in 1976, as an outgrowth of a series of 'history workshops' held at Ruskin College, where Raphael Samuel was a history tutor. The first editors of HWJ – Sally Alexander, Susan Bullock, Anna Davin, Alun Howkins, Andrew Lincoln, Tim Mason, Raphael Samuel, Stan Shipley, Gareth Stedman Jones, and Anne Summers – were all History Workshop activists. The launch 'manifesto' issued for the journal in 1975, reproduced in the editorial for the first issue, called for the democratisation of history, its deprofessionalisation and politicisation. The journal was subtitled 'a journal of socialist historians', with the 'editorial collective' – as it was, and is, known – declaring itself committed to a socialist standpoint, 'neither prophetic nor exclusive', which would inform both the journal's content and its presentation. Six years later another editorial, even more militant in tone, announced the inclusion of 'feminist' on the journal's masthead, where it remained until 1995 when the entire subtitle, 'a journal of socialist and feminist historians', was deleted. History Workshop Journal continues to be one of the world's leading journals of radical history. Its commitments to innovative scholarship, accessible writing, and lively engagement with the politics of historical knowledge continue to attract readers within and beyond the academic community. Custodial History: Transferred to Bishopsgate Institute from Ruskin College, 2012. Scope and Content: Papers relating to the publication and administration of History Workshop Journal, collected by Raphael Samuel and other editors (including Sally Alexander, Barbara Taylor and others), including: editorial collective minutes, correspondence, log sheets, comments on contributions, publicity material, drafts of articles, financial papers, subscription papers, notes and papers regarding publication and publishers, 1975-2008. System of Arrangement: No further arrangement required. Language/scripts of material: English Access conditions: OPEN Copying conditions: Photocopying, scanning and digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law. Finding Aids: Copy of handlist available in researcher’s area. Rules and Conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. RS 9/001 HWJ correspondence (miscellaneous) 1975-1978 Includes: - Correspondence regarding the following: ideas and suggestions for articles; criticisms of the overly political leanings of the journal; discussions around articles; readers’ letters; enthusiasms and 'Noticeboard' features submitted for publication; request to write a reply to a piece by Jerry Kuehl on 'Film as Evidence'; praise for the History Workshop Journal; proposal for a History Workshop on the social and economic history of Johannesburg; criticism from an author over lack of communication from the collective; comments about the editorial concerning Julius Gould; request from a student in Germany for advice as to which would be the best UK university to study at; enquiry whether the collective would consider jointly organising a course at the Communist University of London 1978 with the Communist Party History Group; discussions around the Gould report; correspondence from Tim Mason regarding various aspects of the journal; request for a socialist/Marxist reading list to cover A1 history of England and Wales 1815-1939, accompanied by a handout on studying history at A level from a local comprehensive school; discussion about proofs and printing of the journal; wish to form a closer link between the Oxfordshire Family History Society and History Workshop; comments on the review and subsequent correspondence relating to the BBC Further Education series 'Film As Evidence'; Burford Levellers 76 event; details of and programme of events for the 13th international congress of genealogical and heraldic sciences; request to do a book review of 'Between the Wars' by Ernest Trory; complains about the handling of articles; and discussion around the 'Notice Board'; between and concerning; Anne Summers; Dr Geoffrey Alderman; Jon Amsden; John Archer; Alun Howkins; Sally Alexander; John Arden; Margaretta D'Arcy; Stan Shipley; Logie Barrow; David Barton; Howard Smith, Senior Producer, Further Education Television, BBC; Carol Bebb; William H Beik, Northern Illinois University; Deirdre Beddoe, The Polytechnic of Wales; Gerhard Benecke, University of Kent at Canterbury; Virginia Berridge; Tim Mason; Mike Bor; Gail Braybon; Arthur Brown, University of Essex; Suzann Buckley, State University of New York; Richard Budgen, Bodleian Library, Oxford; Carolyn Bullimore; Jane Caplan; Maurice Caplan, Workers' Educational Association; Doris N Chew; Jens J. Clausen; Arthur Clegg; Raphael Samuel; Phil Cohen; Margaret Cole; John Attfield, Communist Party History Group; Edmund Conway; Scott Meikle, Critique: a journal of soviet studies and socialist theory; Gareth Stedman Jones; James Cronin; A Dawson, Thames Polytechnic; David Dixon; Taylor Downing, University of Leeds; Susan Bullock; H R Ecroyd; A Eguiluz; Rosaline Forge; Ken Forge; Jane Geddes; Michael Goodich; David Goodway; Harvey J. Graff, Assistant Professor of History, Education, and Social Science, University of Texas; Richard Beaver, Professor of History, Florida State University; William Guttsman, University of East Anglia; Edmund Frow, Working Class Movement Library; D M Grundy; Gill Hague, Girls Alone Project; Adrian Hall; David Harker; Mark Harrison, University of Warwick; Tom Hastie, History and Social Sciences Teachers' Centre; Deborah Hertz; Jeffrey Hill, Trent Polytechnic; John Holford, University of Edinburgh; Ruth Issacharoff, School of Environmental Studies, University College London; Richard Jefferies, School of Oriental and African Studies; Colin Jones, University of Exeter; Stella Judt; [Jane Kermak]; David Killingray, Goldsmiths' College; David Kirby, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; Neville Kirk, Liverpool Polytechnic; Patricia Knight, Lecturer in History; Jerry Kuehl; Keith Laybourn; Martin Legassick, University of Warwick; Frances Lloyd; Fred Lindop, Thames Polytechnic; Jane McDermid, University of Glasgow; Ian McKay; Nick Mansfield; Robert B. Marks, University of Wisconsin; Dai Michael, Coleg Harlech; Hannah Mitchell; Brian Morris; Michael Naslas, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield; Robert G Neville; Paul Newman; Anne Newman; John Newsinger; Oliver Turnbull, Titus Wilson and Son, Printers and Publishers; Mary Kuper, illustrator of the journal; Charles Van Onselen; Keith W Harry, The Open University Library; Tim Osborne; David Englander; Niamh O'Sullivan; K. Mary Beck, Honorary Secretary, Oxfordshire Family History Society; Ralph Evans, Past & Present journal; Ronald Paul; Celia Petty; Barbara Phillips, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Gaby Porter, Museum Curator, Metropolitan Borough of Bury; Eve Hostettler; Alan Pratt, Department of Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College; Alan Mackenzie; Nicholas Pronay, School of History, University of Leeds; Russell Keat, Department of Philosophy, University of Lancaster; Andrew Lincoln; James S. Roberts, Department of History, University of Iowa; Alan Redfern, History Department, Crewe and Alsager College; Paul Richards; Sam Richards; Geoff Richman; Colin Richmond, Department of History, University of Keele; Jean Robin, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge; Marvin Rosen; William G Rosenberg; Sheila Rowbotham; Helen Rugen, University of Edinburgh; Eve Reckitt; Adrian A Smith; John Springhall, The New University of Ulster; Don Steel, Secretary, Association of Teachers of Family History; Hans-Josef Steinberg; David Stephenson, Colchester Institute of Higher Education; Penny Summerfield, University of Durham; Pat Thane; Robert Thorne; Desmond Brown, T.G.W. Union; Alan Travis; Ernest Trory, philatelist and postal historian; Angela Tuckett; Derek Turner, local population studies; Robert Unwin, University of Leeds; David Vaisey, Bodleian Library; Martha Vicinus, Indiana University; Michelene Wandor; S.B.Ward, Assistant Keeper, Institute of Agricultural History; Barbara Weinberger; Howard Weinroth; Jerry White; John Wilkes, The New University of Ulster; Bill Williams, Manchester Polytechnic; Thomas de Witt, University of Toronto; Ken Worpole; D G Wright; and Eli Zaretsky, University of California (c. 250 letters) (1975- 1978) - Minutes of a meeting of the Radical Publications Group (3pp) (10 December 1977) OPEN RS 9/002 Editorial collective minutes, correspondence, 1975-1976 proofs Includes: - Minutes of the HWJ collective (5pp) (1 April 1975) - Minutes of the HWJ collective (6pp) (2 copies) (19 April 1975) - Minutes of the HWJ collective (4pp) (16 June 1975) - Minutes of the HWJ collective (6pp) (2 August 1975) - Minutes of the HWJ collective (7pp) (2 copies) (5 September 1975) - Minutes of the HWJ collective (4pp) (2 copies) (12 October 1975) - Minutes of the HWJ collective (1p) (23 November 1975) - Dealings with Pluto Press, discussions around the setting