Political Activism

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities i...

From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just worldone small change at a timeA true gift to our mov...

The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature, w...

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radi...

The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of Sou...

In the years since the 7/7 attacks on the London transport system, many people in Britain seem to have become convinced that we live in uniquely da...

For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotlands turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of...

In 1918, after years of campaigning, many British women over the age of 30 gained a parliamentary vote. Cheltenham was the hub of activity in the C...

On 16 August 1819 on St Peter''s Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabrewi...

Over the course of three decades in the late twentieth century, Northern Ireland was embroiled in the Troubles, a conflict characterised by the vio...

Relying on a hidden camera, a bluff and a little bit of luck, award-winning investigative journalist Rich Hardy finds imaginative ways to meet the ...

After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions. Some scholars examined the social construction of terrorism,...

A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland...

A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland...

In The Tribe, Caitríona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were ...

Use these spirited protest postcards to write your elected representative or inspire a friend-or just post one above your desk. And feel good about...

Britain in the 1980s strikes, the dole, IRA bombings, CND demos, poll tax riots, vegetarian food, radical feminism and an international build-up o...

In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi - National Military Organization - as 'an underground, quasi-m...

The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual...

Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political part...

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Student...