Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’. histhum.com/interview-the-ma…

"The feeling that citizens are no longer bound by collective projects, and in hard times, by a collective fate, is perhaps the biggest cultural sickness of all." Katie Joice reviews Danny Dorling's Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation histhum.com/review-seven-chi…

Apply for History of the Human Sciences' Early Career Prize! Winning essays will be published in the journal and winners receive £250. Deadline 28 March 2025 📚📖 More details here: histhum.com/early-career-pri…

'Outrageous Reason... enjoins a revaluation of conceptions of pathology and dysfunction, as well as the hegemony of whiteness that upholds them.' Michael Romyn reviews Peter Barham's Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020 histhum.com/review-outrageou…

New: The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin reviewed by @drgavinmiller "a fascinating account of the origins of contemporary creativity discourse that is sure to inspire further research in this area" histhum.com/__cultofcreativi…

Carolyn Steedman, 'Who reads Renan' 🔓 On Virginia Woolf as a historian and reading of Ernst Renan's Life of Jesus journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

"the idea that the social and the psychic were intimately connected and had to be transformed collectively to escape alienation was the fundamental lesson" Janina Klement reviews Camille Robcis' Disalienation histhum.com/review-disaliena…

Congrats to @freddyfoks1 winner of this year's History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize for ‘Finding modernity in England’s past: social anthropology and the transformation of social history in Britain, 1959-1977’ We spoke to him about his work: histhum.com/interview-freddy…

Review: Emily Hauptmann, Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970 by John Hsien-hsiang Feng histhum.com/review-emily-hau…

Interview: we spoke to @nobbyclarke31 about the Special Section he co-edited for History of the Human Sciences, 'Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown' histhum.com/interview-archiv…

RIP Ian Hacking (1936-2023) We were very sorry to learn of the death of Ian Hacking. To mark and honour his work we have made the following pieces by and about him (published in HHS between 1992 and 2013) free to access: journals.sagepub.com/action/…