Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?

Collaborative Doctoral Awards Learn more about our Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...

Teaching in and against the state - Red Pepper Should fascists ‘fear’ US public school teachers? Potentially, argues Ranita Ray, but once we recognise complicity in upholding state racism

"While teachers have a long tradition of opposing injustice, we must not be afraid to ask how they have also functioned within oppressive institutions" Ranita Ray @redpeppermag.bsky.social on the ambiguities and contradictions of teachers and schooling

PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships at King's College London Discover a PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...

photo of Gaza City two years apart; in the first, a normal modern coastal city, in the second a mess of ruins evoking images not seen since WWII

the Israeli model for Gaza is also apparently being followed now in southern Lebanon; already there are multiple photos of Lebanese villages razed to the ground, some of them half a millennia old

Thinking of publishing a book on women's mobility? We'd love to hear from you! 👇👇

Cinema, Revolution and Popular Education How does cinema convey historical knowledge for popular education? Viviane Saglier on Annemarie Jacir’s film, ‘Palestine 36’ (2025).

'Its pedagogical strategy is not only to illustrate but to cite, and in doing so, to be in conversation with Palestinian forebearers through a cinema-led revolutionary education'.

Viviane Saglier discusses Annemarie Jacir's recent film, 'Palestine 36' (2025).

Sport has never been binary: fragments of a provocation Over the last two centuries, sports have become one of the most powerful sites for the public imposition, regulation, and maintenance of the rigid colonial binaries of men and women, as well as boy...

The IOC's betrayal of women (cis, intersex & trans) makes understanding the unnatural role of sport in maintaining the colonial gender binary even more urgent.

@sandyosullivan.bsky.social, @michaelburkevu.bsky.social & I tackle the common nonsense of sport.

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

This is an incredibly readable and thought rich piece.

Very much worth five minutes of your day.

A good excuse to share my younger son Kyle’s amazing National History Day exhibit on the fire.

On Friday, 13th of June, 1980, Walter Anthony Rodney was assassinated by a bomb in Georgetown, Guyana. He was 38 years old.

A vertical campaign poster on a black background. At the top, large white bold text reads "MARCH TOGETHER." Below this, three colorful rectangular blocks contain the words "LOVE" (green), "HOPE" (pink), and "UNITY" (orange). The main message continues in large white text: "AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT." In the center, a green hand-drawn oval circles the text "Saturday 28th March, Central London." At the bottom, the poster includes a QR code, the URL "togetheralliance.org.uk" with the call to action "Add your name," and the "TOGETHER" logo in the bottom right corner.

1️⃣ week to go.

Join us on 28 March in Central London to march for love, hope + unity.

Thousands across the country, walking together united.

📍Park Lane, 12pm

All are welcome, including families.

togetheralliance.org.uk/march

I keep telling people that neither Nazis nor the current fascist regime are “anti-science”. They are interested in science that reflects their priorities, and arguing that *REAL* science is pure and incorruptible but… German physicists who kept their jobs in 1930s didn’t stop doing physics

Co-write with us!

Edited book project:

Global Student Movements Against Coloniality: Entangled Praxis of Hope, Resistance & Solidarity

⌛️Extended submission deadline: 27 March 2026

🔗 Call for abstracts here:
www.southsouthmovement.org/global-stude...

The farther out I get from my own undergrad, the more I realize that what I really learned wasn't any particular fact or even subject area.

What I learned was how to learn. How to find information on any subject, how to begin to tell bad information from good, how to test an idea, etc.

Academic precarity negatively impacts research culture Julia Schoonover and Edward Yates ask whether greater attention paid to research culture could lead to moves to address academic precarity

Last week on Wonkhe: Julia Schoonover and Edward Yates ask whether greater attention paid to research culture could lead to moves to address academic precarity

Please consider signing & circulating this open letter to the VC of The OU regarding the Term “Ancient Palestine” - Google Docs [link for signing is at the opening sentence where it says (sign here)]
@europeangroup.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you working on an essay, dissertation, research project or conference proposal? Check out our videos on using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

"How could a life that is threatened at every moment and from every direction be called 'ordinary'?

Ordinary for whom? Ordinary where? If we look around us, which people in our neighboring countries actually have an 'ordinary life?' What things, which people, have taken this ordinary life hostage?"

the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz

Interested in research policy, supporting early career researchers or helping research potential donors for Humanities and Social Science research? Check out these positions at the British Academy. #Skystorians

Particular focus on "post-colonial political thought, or whose work might connect political theory and historical political economy"👇

Organizing in the Heart of Empire The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...

"point is not that debates do not matter, but that they should be organized around meaningful goals, anchored to specific conjunctures, based in actual terrains of struggle, related to concrete organizing efforts on the ground, and oriented towards building power"

www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

VACANCY - we are looking for a new early modern British colleague to join us at Warwick! Thematic focus open, with interests in religious change and/or social relations particularly welcome. Full details at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...