History is the new punk

History From Below networking and new visions of how to research and communicate radical history

Transcription and slides from a multimedia talk by Roger Ball and Peter Box at Manchester Metropolitan University, 11 May, 2015

This talk covers:

The recent history of movements studying History From Below: History Workshop Movement (UK), Dig Where You Stand (Sweden) and ‘Geschichtswerkstätten’ (Germany)
The growth, diversity of approaches and activities in the current international History From Below network
How ideologies frame ‘radical history’ and affect how and where we look when we undertake research: ‘Rebellion within the rebellion’, formal and informal struggle, outcomes, sources and evidence, informal modes of organisation, subterranean oral histories, family and community history, social movements and dispersed researchers
Levelling and commoning: the practice of radical history and history from below