History workshop journal No. 67 spring 2009

Articles and essays

Charles van Onselen
Who killed meyer hasenfus? organized crime, policing and informing on the witwatersrand, 1902–8

Jan Rüger
Laughter and war in Berlin

Rebecca Lemov
Towards a data base of dreams: assembling an archive of elusive materials, c. 1947–61

Mark Levene
Historians for the right to work: we demand a continuing supply of history

Feature textbook lessons

Sunil Amrith
Introduction

Romila Thapar
The history debate and school textbooks in India: a personal memoir

Neeladri Bhattacharya
Teaching history in schools: the politics of textbooks in India

Mieke de Vos
The return of the canon: transforming Dutch history teaching

Simone Lässig and Karl Heinrich Pohl
History textbooks and historical scholarship in Germany

Pat Thane
History and policy

Feature representing the Andaman Islands

Clare Anderson
Introduction

Clare Anderson
Oscar mallitte's andaman photographs, 1857–8

Vishvajit Pandya
Through lens and text: constructions of a ‘stone age’ tribe in the Andaman islands

Claire Wintle
Model subjects: representations of the Andaman islands at the colonial and Indian exhibition, 1886