Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
It’s now busy becoming a “gotcha” on the leniency of the system when instead it ought to prompt a little bit of thought about why we’re so desperate to catch and keep vulnerable or desperate people out.
The BBC story about the asylum lawyers is hardly surprising; an immigration & asylum system organised on the basis of spite, cruelty, and exploitation is bound to produce its own substrata of smaller-time exploiters.
Fascinating stuff.
There's probably a postcode lottery element to this, but I can't say I felt that supported and was never asked about mental health or anything like that. It was all, understandably, focused on my partner.
At least it wasn't 'Hugh'.
A woman wearing a pink jumper is holding a copy of a book in front of her to display the cover. She looks happy.
Great excitement in the #HistParl office as our research fellow Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones gets her hands on a print copy of her special issue of Parliamentary History. It's currently free to access online here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...
Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work
View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background
Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
This is exactly the kind of nominative determinism I want to find while procrastinating.
I'm sorry - Bernard WHAT?!
Can heartily recommend nearby Gosforth’s high street for a charity bookshops as well!
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...
Don't know why I remember this but: Jessica Mitford chose this as her luxury on her episode of Desert Island Discs.
... seen very few mentions of it & no further research. When I complain about the lack of academic interest in establishing British fascism's place within the broader politics of race compared to the fascination with it as some kind of interesting, politically deviant curiosity, this is what I mean.
Race Today on the NF's intervention in 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike by Asian workers against exploitative practices from their bosses & racism from the white trade union colleagues. Journalist Martin Walker mentions this briefly in his book on the NF published in the late 70s but beyond this...
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, libraries, archives, museums and community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Conference programme: Panel 1: Disasters, safety and commemoration Oaks Colliery Disaster, 1866 Paul Darlow, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Paul Hardman, former NUM National Executive Officer The Safety Men: the Colliery Deputies union in the British Coal Industry Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University (Emeritus) Welcomed to Wrexham Sarah Castagnetti, The National Archives The 1959 Auchengeich Disaster: class, community and commemoration in Scotland’s coalfields Professor Jim Phillips, University of Glasgow Chair: Dr Jörg Arnold, Universität Augsburg Panel 2: Health The Violent Realities and Multiple Temporalities of a Miner’s Life Liv Robinson, Northumbria University ‘A wonderful difference to the home life’: pithead baths, pitwomen, and disability in twentieth-century British coalmining communities Lucy Jameson, Durham University Pneumoconiosis, Environment, and the Politics of Coal Miners' Health in Twentieth Century Britain Dr Andrew Seaton, University of Manchester A Special Case? Miners’ Health, Wage Relativities and the Fall of Heath’s Government Robert Rayner, University of Birmingham Chair: Professor Mathew Thomson, University of Warwick
Panel 3: Welfare “Feeding on the job?” Pit canteens in 1940s Britain Dr Ariane Mak, Université Paris Cité & IUF The Warmth of Home: Concessionary Fuel and Domestic Energy in British Coalfield Communities, 1945-1995 Dr Kathy Davies, Northumbria University Class, Culture and Democracy: the Miners Libraries of South Wales John Pateman, University of Leicester Deindustrialisation and the recreational provision of the nationalised British coalmining industry (1950s-1984) Dr Marion Henry, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Chair: Dr Quentin Outram, Society for the Study of Labour History Panel 4: Legacies Now The Dust Has Settled James O. Davies, Historic England 'The Big K: The Pit that shaped a community' Its legacy, a decade after closure. Judi Alston, One to One Development Trust Union Poorhouse to Union Leader - Herbert Smith, President of the Miners Federation of Great Britain 1922-1929. Kathryn Stainburn, Castleford Civic Society The Afterlife of Coal in Barnsley: Youth, Community, and Intergenerational Legacies Dr Kat Simpson, The University of Huddersfield Chair: Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton Showcase of exhibitions, displays and posters: On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton Coal: a record of an industry Gary Winter, Historic England Poster of Mrs Sheila Truman Daniella Law, Historic England Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins – Exploring the Coal Collections at Glamorgan Archives Rhian Diggins, Glamorgan Archives When Coal was Clean: Soap and Smoke in Nineteenth Century Britain Oliver Marshall Mining Disasters in the Village of Worsbrough Maureen Gennard, Peter Fairham and David Bullock, Worsbrough Library Heritage Group
🚨 Conference booking open 🚨
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain from the 19th century to the present
18 June 2026, University of Warwick
Booking form and additional information about the programme available at
warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
I am organising a workshop at Manchester on 11-12 June entitled 'HIV/AIDS and the Boundaries of Europeanness'. Abstracts are due 29 April and you can find the full call for papers here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share with interested colleagues!
Dawn Thompson Bermudan student in geography at durham early 1960s
Birzeit olive tree logo used to represent twinning of DSU with Birzeit students council 1984
Article about anti apartheid protestors outside a durham union debate with the South African envoy speaking.
Survey about Black students at durham early 1960s
At the BSA tomorrow talking about the history of race and colonialism at Durham University through the lens of the student newspaper.
Thinking about what the university is and its role in racialisation and colonialism.
This is specifically on slavery, but it's the only so far published work I know on the north east of England and empire: www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Chain...
Can any historians of empire please recommend reading that connects regional history to global histories of empire? Bonus points if it touches on the role of/ relationship between England's north east or Midlands and the British empire!
Just published in @jich.bsky.social, alongside my colleague Jim Phillips
Black Essential Workers, Racialised Citizenship and Community ‘Friendliness’: The British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, 1941–1943
doi.org/10.1080/0308...
I've moved the Sam Cooke one around with me on the last two or three house moves but have never gotten round to reading it; I'll bump it up my list on that recommendation.
This looks like a great PhD topic with funding - working with Adam Crymble (UCL) and the V&A - Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#OtD 18 Mar 1871 the Paris Commune, one of the most influential working class uprisings to build socialism, organised by workers councils, was established. When the army eventually retook Paris in May they killed thousands of workers in revenge. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/voi...
Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period
How did a protest by a group of women from a Christian anarchist movement inspire a 1960s American folk song?
Victoria Peretitskaya explores the song's radical origins:
www.historyworkshop....↗
Trying to do it all in one chapter and regretting it.
Chap 4 of the book I'm currently working on is on the National Front. There's still so little historical research on the NF! There's contemporary journalism & sociology/political science stuff or stuff on anti-fascism but little on a movement that loomed large in the politics of race in 70s Britain.
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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