This special issue – edited by Charlotte Galpin and Jenny Wuestenberg as part of the Post-Socialist Britain? project – advances interdisciplinary engagement with post-socialism as an analytical concept and empirical point of investigation within Memory Studies. Across the articles in this special issue, post-socialism in Britain appears not as a legacy imported from elsewhere, but as something that is created and reproduced through a complex set of diasporic relationships, everyday encounters and infrastructures that connect migrants, the British public and competing memory regimes. The contributions also expand our understanding of post-socialism as an analytical concept applicable across mnemonic contexts beyond the UK. Authors surface how memories, identities and political projects are made in and through relations: across diasporas and borders; between local, national, transnational and infrastructural scales; and via entangled temporalities. Through this, relationality highlights both solidarity as well as uneven power dynamics.

Several of the articles are available open access, including the following by team members:

Galpin, C., & Wüstenberg, J. (2026). Introduction: Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond. Memory Studies Review, 3(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1163/29498902-20260101

Jones, S., & Bischin, O. (2026). Mnemonic Conviviality in “Post-Cold War” Britain: Entangled Memories in Urban Space. Memory Studies Review, 3(1), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.1163/29498902-20260103

Wüstenberg, J., & Connolly, E. (2026). Migration, Memory and Organisational Networks: The Case of Germans and Poles in the UK. Memory Studies Review, 3(1), 66-88. https://doi.org/10.1163/29498902-20260105