Society / History
Articles about History, ordered by date. 
A History of Black Power
Veteran activist, academic and actor Gary Foley talks to Zoe Holman about the past and future of Aboriginal resistance.
Stilling the pendulum
The ghost of Dinyar Godrej looks back from 2073 to see how personal revolutions built a society that is truly social.
Hope from the seed of trauma
The pandemic years were the pivot for a rapid shift bringing a better new world into being. Andrew Simms travels through time.
Cheminots of fire
The history of the railways is steeped in the development of capitalism and imperialism. But it has also been profoundly shaped from the bottom up. Conrad Landin profiles five trailblazers who left their mark on the tracks.
Fossil fuels – a journey in time
From the steam engine to the Paris Agreement.
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next
Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
A history of vaccines
Swagata Yadavar traces the ups and downs in the history of vaccination.
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal
Key events in recent Kurdish history.
Why won’t Croatia face its past?
The country’s political class is letting fascists off the hook and allowing history to be distorted. Jelena Prtorić asks: Whose purposes does this serve?
A brief history of impoverishment
Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance. Warning: extremely violent content. Words: Dinyar Godrej.
Mixed Media: Books
1947 by Elisabeth Åsbrink; The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming; Of Women by Shami Chakrabarti; With Ash on Their Faces by Cathy Otten.
Homage to Catalonia
Recent events have thrust Catalonia into the global spotlight. Kevin Buckland tells the background story we don’t get to hear – about co-operatives, ‘fearless cities’ and the real challenges to authoritarian capitalism.
A short history of coups, crises and Peronism
Argentina’s ups and downs since 1946.
The Arctic: a history
A mythical place – land of the frozen ocean, the aurora borealis and the midnight sun.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Rebels with a cause
Popular rebellion has often accompanied oppressive taxation. Almost all the protests were against taxes that ignored the ability to pay. Here are just a few examples.
A short history of TAXATION
A history of the eternal fate of taxation: to be the abused or abusive means towards noble or ignoble ends, never quite able to escape its association with extortion and war.
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