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Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!

Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.

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Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts

The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

What can histories of Empire teach us about modern environmental efforts? Professor Sadiah Qureshi, author of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (2025), explores the current biodiversity crisis by examining it through the historical lens of Empire.

I wrote something for the British Academy blog and then completely forgot to post a link. This draws on a case study from my book Vanished about the foundation of national parks. If you want to know more, there’s a rather large discount on some sites. 🐯

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-ca...

I’m in a newly published collection on political writing in modern Britain published by CUP. I met and got the opportunity to work with some lovely people in the preparation of this collection. I hope it’s as much fun to read as it was to put together.

Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain speakers: Deanna lyncook (queen mary & uwi cave hill) thursday, 22 december 2025, 5:30 pm (online only) https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/you-are-not-allow-yourselves-be-frightened-norman-manleys-visits-britain-transnational-care-post-war Institute of historical research black british history seminar

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain

📍 Online only
📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30
🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Imperial Footprints | Hurst Publishers From the Victorian era to Partition, Mukherjee uncovers the unique experiences of the very youngest South Asian migrants to Britain.

Hurrah!!! The brilliant Sumita Mukherjee has a new book out about the lives of South Asian children in Modern Britain in just a few weeks.

I love the cover photo!

A must read so now would be a great time to preorder and commission reviews.

www.hurstpublishers.com/book/imperia...

OK. So I got interested in who exactly IS drafting the curriculum. The picture is super mixed but worrying in places - have put a few headlines below but would welcome comment from DfE! If anyone has more information to contribute I would be interested. This is based on a quick search of names /1

Migration and Mobility History The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

Really delighted to have Nadia Joseph at the first @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar of 2026 speaking on anti-apartheid activism and mobility. Sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

So delighted to have this arrive today. Such an important book for #historyteacher s wanting to do justice to teaching about Britain’s colonial past!

Katie, Nicholas, @justice2history.bsky.social & @abdulmohamud.bsky.social do an amazing job of bringing research and pedagogy together.

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947* Abstract. In colonial Bengal, the average police constable was largely unlettered. Nevertheless, constables were at the frontline in the enforcement of col

On advance access: "Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947"

by Partha Pratim Shil (@stanford.edu)

#OpenAccess

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'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.

Lovely to see Exhibiting Irishness at the @manchesterup.bsky.social table at #NACBS2025

A photo of a handwritten sign in black ink on white paper, posted on an arched window. The text reads '1st Conference Black Parents Movement 27th-28th October 1979'

What is the Black Archive? Reparations and Transformation

Sat, 29 Nov, British Library

On Presenting the Past: Black Archives in Britain Today – GPI Archivist will be talking at this first discussion of the day, along with the BFI and the Stuart Hall Archive

See British Library website to book

The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisation This session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.

Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Out now! Tadaaa! My essay on Indian performers in Britain
Let me know if you would like a copy and don't have access to it via your library

Home Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.

Intense but inspiring event yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrating 10 years of this brilliant online resource for teachers (and everyone interested in UK's long history of migration) www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
Needed more now than ever.

Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising

Home Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.

Excellent workshop and 10-year anniversary celebration yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for that marvellous open access teaching resource, Our Migration Story. Shout out to the team that conceptualised and orchestrated it years ago & for fostering its growth to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social

Home Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.

Had a great time today at the 10 year anniversary of the Our Migration Story website (still looking good!). Really inspiring to hear how successful it's been and how important quality teaching about migration is in the current climate.

ourmigrationstory.org.uk

Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

We damage Britain by denying its migrant past | Omar Khan Brexiters spoke of ‘taking our country back’. But that was based on a false notion who we are as a people, and of our history of immigration

I wrote this 9 years ago today, apparently, tho that's nothing on the 224 year old Daniel Defoe quote I cite

For the launch of this website
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk

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Wonderful news, Charlotte! Many congratulations!! 🎊

New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
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Black Atlas is now open ✨

A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.

📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026

📍 Warburg Institute | Free

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New PhD Student Session For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Gary Younge, Bridget Kendall, Bobby Duffy, Susan J Smith

‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.’ Great intervention from Gary Younge at our @britishacademy.bsky.social panel this evening on the future of humanities and social sciences

Migration and Mobility History The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!