Dr Laura King is Associate Professor in History at the University of Leeds, currently working on ‘Living with Dying: Everyday Cultures of Dying within Family Life in Britain, c.1900-50s’.

Here she explores the way that food can be used to stimulate conversations, and considers how working with non-academic partners can shape research in unexpected ways.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final came to a thrilling conclusion when France defeated first-time finalists Croatia 4-2 in Moscow.  Here historians Tosh Warwick and Duncan Stone reflect on their experiences of the tournament and consider how history might remember Russia 2018.

Kerrie McGiveron is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on new left activism, second wave feminism and specifically, the radical left wing group, Big Flame.

This post uses the example of the Kirkby Rent Strike to consider the relationship between community history and radical history. It draws on work presented as a research poster at our 2018 annual conference at Keele University.

Dr Henry Irving, as well as being the new SHS Communications Officer, is a senior lecturer in public history at Leeds Beckett University and a member of the Institute of English Studies project, ‘A communication history of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46’.

In his contribution to the Community Exchange, which was written before he was invited to become editor, he discussed the research on the social history of recycling during the Second World War that he presented at the recent Social History Society conference and asks: Can social history help to overcome modern environmental challenges?

Dr Freya Cox Jensen is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter and author of ‘Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England’ (Brill, 2012).

In her contribution to the Community Exchange, Dr Cox Jensen writes of a night of ballads, ‘true stories’ and making history at the Being Human festival of the humanities.

Prisoners suffer significant health inequalities and a much higher burden of chronic illness, mental illness, infectious disease and substance misuse than the general population. Yet we lack an adequate historical perspective on these issues that might highlight continuities and ruptures in both prisoner health and prison health systems.  Funded by the Wellcome Trust, Prisoners, Medical … Continued