History blog archive

Category: Labour

  • Emotions and Work: an interview with Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison moulds

    Emotions and Work: an interview with Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison moulds

    In November 2019, Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds held ‘Emotions and Work’, a day-long conference funded by the Royal Historical Society and the Wellcome Trust via the Living with Feeling Project at QMUL, exploring the troubled relationship between emotions and labour, and considering how frameworks and methodologies of the history of emotions can be critically…

  • The British Army’s Chinese Auxiliaries in Arctic Russia

    The British Army’s Chinese Auxiliaries in Arctic Russia

    Yuexin Rachel Lin While conducting research in the Academia Sinica digital archives in 2017, I stumbled across a remarkable document: A list of Chinese workers, part of a labour company recruited by the Slavo-British Legion in the northern Russian cities of Murmansk and Archangel. The list includes every man’s name, age, hometown, and even the…