Pleased that my review of 'Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World' by Melanie Torrent (Bloomsbury, 2024) in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) is now available online!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I use ‘Regards’ as default. Just giving off passive aggressive vibes accidentally for years.
These are overlapping categories and issues. We need to stop treating redundancy as professional death, and address how to support people who've lost their jobs, rather than fret about it happening in future while treating the pipeline from precarious ECR to secure mid-career academic as the norm.
Just thought I'd mention again that I once wrote this book about the history of 'no platforming' and free speech debates at UK universities.
www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...
Yep, every deadline day.
Title of my introductory chapter: 'No Platform in Historical and Contemporary Context
I uploaded the introduction, which gives a brief overview of this history, as well as some contextual definitions, to ResearchGate and academia dot edu.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.academia.edu/44497710/No_...
Just thought I'd mention again that I once wrote this book about the history of 'no platforming' and free speech debates at UK universities.
www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...
I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖
Any historian will tell you that there is always a gap between the historical record and what people remember about the past - and neither of them may really tell us ‘what actually happened’
A newspaper article in the Belfast telegraph, titled ‘Before the 1960s, this idea of comingohtdid not really exist in Northern Ireland’.
If you’re based in Northern Ireland, I have a piece about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk today!
Man the newly digitized Irish census rules, what an incredible resource
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I assume you’ve seen the Telly Savalas film about Birmingham?
youtu.be/EoHVO1eSMFc?...
Remembering that declassified files from the UK National Archives showed that 10 Downing Street expected email to be a passing fad when it first arrived in 1994, but encouraged John Major to be internet-savvy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...
Remembering that declassified files from the UK National Archives showed that 10 Downing Street expected email to be a passing fad when it first arrived in 1994, but encouraged John Major to be internet-savvy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...
Only a few days left to get our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' for 30 per cent off via @manchesterup.bsky.social. Use the code 'EVENT30' for the discount, until 20 April.
Tell your institutional librarian!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
I left alone, my mind was blank…
On 17 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh and ruled Cambodia for 4 years.
I wrote this a while ago about the Australian Maoist support for Democratic Kampuchea in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including a visit by Ted Hill to Cambodia in 1977.
hatfulofhistory.com/2022/01/17/t...
This thesis from 2017 might give an overview of said literature.
The Workers' War: The Character of Class Struggle in World War II.
Mikhail Bjorge
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Front cover of Bodie Ashton (ed.) ‘The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society’. Book on the shelf at Imprints, Adelaide bookshop.
Saw @manwithoutatan.bsky.social’s book at Imprints on Hindley St, Adelaide yesterday!
This article co-written with @nickhall.bsky.social about women camera operators at the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s, is some of my most valuable work, yet also the least cited. www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/doi/full/10....
The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social is out now (54/2), featuring 11 new articles of original research, 2 commentary pieces and 6 book reviews.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
Just posting this again for #historians 🗃️
I’ve really enjoyed hearing about people’s papers that have gone under the radar
My first article, a close reading of newly enfranchised Aotearoa New Zealand women's apparent 'defection' from the Contagious Diseases Act repeal campaign 🗃️
doi.org/10.1080/0961...
The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social is out now (54/2), featuring 11 new articles of original research, 2 commentary pieces and 6 book reviews.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
On 15 April 1989, the Hillsborough disaster happened at an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, leading to 97 fatalities. I wrote this a few years ago when the Prime Minister's Office's files for 1989-90 were released by the UK National Archives.
hatfulofhistory.com/2017/01/10/p...
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
Just posting this again for #historians 🗃️
I’ve really enjoyed hearing about people’s papers that have gone under the radar
This one is a reminder that:
1) for feminists, the woman-slave analogy is a net-negative rhetorical tool;
2) it’s a tool that’s all too easy for others to adopt; and
3) even before AI, history and historical memory could be mobilised uncritically.
The past is present.
doi.org/10.1080/0961...
Great idea Evan!
My pick is in honour of the writer Streten Božić/ Wongar who died in March, aged 94.
Broken English: What to Do with Wongar, the European Migrant Who Became an Aboriginal Writer: Australian Historical Studies: Vol 53, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...