Going to hospital four times in two weeks is four times too many.

In the 1950s-60s, British fascists, such as Oswald Mosley, were invited to speak at various university campuses. They used these invitations to portray themselves as part of a legitimate debate (while also courting infamy), but their speeches were often opposed. hatfulofhistory.com/2021/06/06/w...

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

UCL, Kings and LSE are so close you can walk between all three without finishing your coffee. Which one of you is closing your history department then, lads?

Can anyone on here recommend an audio transcription platform (I don’t mind it not being free but don’t have a budget for a person to do it right now, because the audio is 1h long and that would be £££) that transcribes in Haitian Kreyòl?

Today’s discovery is everyone who was too scared to speak up about against fascism or genocide has found their voice when condemning the death of a far right figure.

What a wild week. In and out of A&E and urgent care with a fractured leg and suspected thrombosis. I would say “stick a fork in me, I’m done”, but please don’t as I am now on blood thinners.

Again and again the press runs these numbers, and again and again they fail to point out that the foreign-born prison population is LOWER than the native-born, proportionally. Because if they stated that basic fact, they wouldn't have a story, because the only story they want is "racism is right".

Today’s Labour think their job is to hold the public to account, down to whether we want watch porn anonymously and what toilets we use, and can’t let our desire for health and safety and decent wages and a pleasant environment get in the way of shareholder profits. Sad people!

Whew. Just got round to watching @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s Jubilee debate with ultra-conservatives and outright fascists. I need to add his book on debating to my growing pile of unread books…!

This is amazing. Lela is such an incredible artist whose work engages us to reckon with and recognise our rich and diverse history in Britain.

So pleased to have a role in this exciting project. Even happier to once more work with @nlwillson.bsky.social (sister from another mother). Our last confab, Rasanblaj Fanm, created a thriving community that remains in contact 1 year later. We have a pretty good track record!

NEWS KLAXON 📢📢📢 I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a major AHRC Catalyst award for my project “Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century”.

A hugely welcome solidarity statement on Palestine from @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social: haitisupportgroup.org/haiti-suppor...

Not sure what’s going on with my hand in that pic 😆 but it was a really wonderful and generative meeting in these bleak times.

Universal basic income works; giving homeless people a place to live works; treating the sick works; paying decent wages works; welcoming refugees works; decriminalisation of drugs and sex-work works. All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.

I reported on famine in South Sudan in 2017, traveling to rebel-held territory in Unity state where tens of thousands of people were judged to be in "IPC5", which is to say, totally without food and on the verge of death. In Gaza 244,000 people are now in that stage

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Like many, we were devastated by the loss of the Oloffson. Please help us remember Haiti’s cultural, musical, artistic, literary & intellectual hub in a positive light by sharing your happy memories of a time well spent while staying at/visiting the hotel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...

Here are some of the photos from my archive from 2010 and 2011. I think often about how this hotel was kind of tied to my dream of becoming a journalist, which began after reading Amy Wilentz's book, The Rainy Season.

I was never a regular but I still have so many memories. The Oloffson is where I was drinking a ji grenadya when I heard Duvalier was back in Haiti. It's where I earned the worst hangover of my life. It's where I met countless friends and heard countless stories.

There’s nothing that isn’t heartbreaking about this, but the power of memory is really profound, and it’s really heartening in this moment to hear people sharing their memories of the Oloffson.

The Oloffson wasn't just a Graham Greene backdrop. It was an incredible art space, a queer space, a space of worship, a space of refuge, a space of gossip, a space of protest, a rare space where multiple worlds intersected and sweat and danced and drank rum together. It was purposefully destroyed.

Are Starmer and Reeves finally about to take their heads out of the sand and admit that taxing wealth fairly is a much better idea than cutting support for disabled people?

Thread. 💔

This is heartbreaking 💔 www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our first panel of the in-person day is on the theme "Along State Lines: Nation and Nationalism, Borders, and Changing Territories/Landscapes" and will feature Dr Ananya Mishra (QMUL)...

"A 17-year-old boy who was walking with two teenage girls in the city center laughed when asked about right-wing extremism at their school. "Hitler is glorified big time!" they said, adding that the Hitler salute is now a regular part of their school life."

"It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services... more to the point, the idea that only science really matters has been enormously destructive." There is no research infrastructure without a full research infrastructure.

“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

It was a real pleasure yesterday to meet Laurent Saint-Cyr, a member of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council, at the Haitian Embassy in London yesterday. I hope the discussions he had with members of the dyaspora will prove generative for Haiti #ayiti

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

This has been the case for a long time, especially with history (at least since the early 1990s). Historians are highly engaged with the public, but you wouldn’t know it, if you listen to the political class & media pundits. #cdnhist #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

Heartbreaking news 😔

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Really keen to know if anyone in the @danfrancis02.bsky.social team deals with these comms on Bluesky, via email or elsewhere, or whether the policy is just to completely ghost constituents now?

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

Just putting this out there again. Grateful to have a network of teacher followers on the other site but I’d be keen to know if there are any on here with whom I haven’t yet connected?

A welcome statement. Please add me to the crisis network @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social and @ihrlibrary.bsky.social.

Where are my school history teachers at (UK, US, Haiti)? Please @ me. I'm working on something that I'd love for you to be involved in!

This has been at the forefront of my mind as it opens a window to his family life watching the Netflix Senna drama. The documentary centred more on the politics of F1 and how Senna gave back, which is amazing but of course he was able to do it all in the first place because of family wealth.

I take back all the bad things I ever said about the British Library cafe. This is what a £3.50 flat white looks like from Cambridge University Library tea room. 😭

🐋 Very sad to read this – just as humpback whales start to return to UK waters, they immediately find themselves at increased risk from human activity. www.scotsman.com/hays-way/hum...

While you’re here…another important fundraiser to safeguard works by the Atis Rezistans collective: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Please support this important initiative to create a cultural centre in Gonaïves, Haiti, and share across your networks: www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing

Arrivederci to beautiful Bergamo. Grazie to @barlafuess.bsky.social and to the folks at the Museo “Enrico Caffi” for the hospitality. Sadly we never did find the coglioni di Colleoni!

History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our 4th online session on the 4 March will focus on Podcasting for Historians with @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @deannalyncook.bsky.social, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social, Samuel Hume and Izzy Conn. www.history.ac.uk/events/podca...