Radical History as Collective Endeavour: Joining History Workshop Journal in the Present Crisis

This roundtable records a conversation among a group of current History Workshop Journal editors, held initially over Zoom, with some remarks added later to the online transcript. With longtime editor Marybeth Hamilton serving as interviewer, the discussion brought together the seven historians who were then the most recent additions to the HWJ editorial collective: Elly Robson Dezateux, Meleisa Ono-George, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Rob Priest, Hannah Skoda, T.J. Tallie, and Imaobong Umoren, all of whom joined in spring 2021. The aim of the roundtable was to explore the perspectives of a new generation of editors on the impact and the legacy of HWJ and the history workshop movement – and on where the journal and the movement might place their energies in years to come.