Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου μου 'Δολοφονία στην Αποικιακή Κύπρο το 1934 και οι Απαρχές της ΕΟΚΑ'. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

Book launch (in Greek) in Cyprus. Can't believe it has been 2 years. The Greek translation of 'Assassination in Colonial Cyprus' can be purchased at all good book stores in Cyprus and online (Psifides). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_poZ...

Cover of 'Matthew and Son' from Yusuf/Cat Stevens album 'Matthew & Son' (1967) by Andrekos Varnava. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

Matthew and Son the great song of the workers www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8NZ...

Cover of 'Matthew and Son' from Yusuf/Cat Stevens album 'Matthew & Son' (1967) by Andrekos Varnava. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

Matthew and Son the great song of workers www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8NZ...

Dealing with Destitute Cypriots in the UK and Australia, 1914–1931 In 1928, the Australian authorities told the British government that they would no longer accept Cypriots into the country because of the widespread destitution of those already in Australia. This cha...

In another paper, @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and I looked at how the British used controls at port of departure within the British Empire, but I have been trying to find out how/if Australia pursued similar.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Professors Varnava and Hajimichael talk on the mob killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958 by EOKA. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

And what it did www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlte...

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

Remembering what EOKA was @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Andrekos Varnava FAHA on why the past still matters Professor Andrekos Varnava is an expert on the British Empire. He shares his research and why knowing history is integral for the future.

Me on the British empire, Cyprus & why the past still matters. For the AAH.
humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Professors Varnava and Hajimichael talk on the mob killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958 by EOKA. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

Nice to announce my next book will be co-authored with Mike Hajimichael after being contracted to Anthem. The title is: 'EOKA and Political Murders in Colonial Cyprus: The Mob Killing of Savvas Menikos'. For a preview, watch our talk from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlte...

Revisiting the road to Cypriot independence In September 1958 Archbishop Makarios, the Greek Cypriot leader, told Barbara Castle, the then Chair of the British Labour Party, that, after three and a half years of violence from EOKA (Εθνική Ορ...

This article might be of interest www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Issue 1 for 2026 (Vol. 54) is out now! ‪It is a special issue, edited by Mona Rudolph & Nina Kleinöder on: 'Business and Labour in German Colonialism'.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

New Perspectives on the Greek War of Independence This book presents new research to connect the Greek War of Independence to a wider history and highlights its importance across the last 200 years.

Thanks! The chapter appeared in this book. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Professor Andrekos Varnava, talk 'Cyprus and 1821: Myths, Realities, Forgetting and Remembering' YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

Tomorrow is #Greek Independence Day. Many myths will be celebrated in #Cyprus about the ethnomartyr Kyprianos. My talk and the publication that came out of it dispel these myths. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4i0...

Cover of ‘Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945’ by Yianni Cartledge, with photo of Ikarian workers.

Great to be given a hard copy of the first monograph by my former PhD student @yiannicart.bsky.social, ‘Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945’.

Congratulations on the book!

anthempress.com/books/ikaria...

UK Cyprus base hit by drone The United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone, the Cyprus Mail learned in the early hours of Monday morning. Personnel on the bases were informed that a “small drone” ...

British Sovereign Bases in Cyprus hit by drone cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/02/s...

It does seem odd, but possible given the random targets.

Iran missiles fired towards UK military bases in Cyprus, defence minister says Defence secretary John Healey has revealed that UK assets in the Middle East are at risk from Iranian retaliation

Iranian missiles targetting British Sovereign Bases Cyprus... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Soon there will be a former NZ PM as Aussie PM!

Professor Andrekos Varnava interview with Joe O’Brien on ABC NEWS 24, on 12 September 2022. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

His mother is rolling in her grave www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHM6...

Afelia tonight. Cyprus on my plate.

Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–1815 This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sover...

My latest article (open access) #history #historian #southeastasia #Imperialism #Colonialism #Decolonisation
#treaties #Raffles #sovereignty

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My way of advertising @flindersuniversity.bsky.social where I work.

First Past the Post is the electoral system you have when your politics has run repeatedly head-first into a brick wall. It is an indefensible crude system that produces results that routinely fail to have even passing resemblance to being representative

FPTP apologists are bad and should feel bad

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

5k views/downloads on my EOKA essay in less than 10 months. Are people ready to understand the nature of EOKA? @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Revisiting the road to Cypriot independence In September 1958 Archbishop Makarios, the Greek Cypriot leader, told Barbara Castle, the then Chair of the British Labour Party, that, after three and a half years of violence from EOKA (Εθνική Ορ...

Published only 2 years ago, this article has had 8k views/downloads. Thanks so much for the support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Russian embassy official found dead in Nicosia

Russian embassy official found dead in Nicosia

This article on the Cypriot Civil War seemed to gain popularity in December...
direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

Me and @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social also published this open access article for The Historical Journal (@historicaljnl.bsky.social), 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Back yard cricket…

Cover of 'Land o' Free Love & Goodbye', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from his album 'Numbers' (1975) YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

My cover of a largely forgotten yet beautiful song my @YusufCatStevens on happiness needing only nature, love and God to flourish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE9...

A Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil War Abstract. A case study of the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967) demonstrates that existing scholarly definitions of civil war are inadequate. The arbitrary death thresholds that qualify conflicts for incl...

Start with knowing what happened to bring about the division. Start here direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...