To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!

The Society now invites applications for its Workshop Grants programme 2026: bit.ly/4oPyUdZ Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians

Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

Our upcoming seminar in the Global Histories of Knowledge series. The link to the meeting will be on the website: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Join the launch of, ‘Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race’. By Claire Blencowe Discussants: Goldie Osuri, Hannah Jones & Martin Savransky. Date: Thursday, 9 October Time: 4:00–5:30 pm Location: Ramphal Building, R1.15

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Sri Lankan research trip to Amsterdam: Vasantha Yogananthan’s ‘A Myth of Two Souls’ (2013-21, detail) at @rijksmuseum.bsky.social; Chathuri Nissansala studio visit at @rijksakademie.bsky.social (‘Saudade V’, 2024, detail).

Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, a month long celebration of the arts. Rachael Scally's article reveals the legacies of slavery in one of the festival's key venues, the Royal Infirmary (now the Edinburgh Futures Institute). www.historyworkshop....

I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Esme Garlake reviews @youth-demand.bsky.social's recent protest at the National Gallery, to reflect on the visual politics of pro-Palestine activism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Caterina Franciosi reviews Iris Moon’s recent book 'Melancholy Wedgwood' (2024, @mitpress.bsky.social) as "a provocative and original contribution to the intertwined histories of capitalism and decorative arts" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nicholas Mirzoeff examines the politics of contemporary Palestinian visual culture and solidarity movements resisting settler colonialism, to critically interrogate British complicity in the region's past and present: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

So pleased to announce that the relaunch issue of @vcib.bsky.social is OUT! Huge thanks to all the contributors for helping us create this. Our cover features @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social's work and you can read more about it and so much more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/2...

Hardeep Singh Dhindsa considers how 18th-century classical studies constructed modern ideas of racial whiteness, using contemporary illustration to challenge the worldviews such sculptures came to represent (we are delighted to feature on our latest cover) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .

My piece on women and partition in Ireland north and south is in today's @irishtimes.com for #IWD2025! It's an excerpt of my @arinsproject.bsky.social article 'Partition, Revolution & Alternative Futures in Irish Women's Fiction'! Link to my full essay is included. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

A visit to Lunuganga, former country house and gardens of queer Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003), acquired by him in 1948. Once a cinnamon estate under Dutch colonialism (1640-1796) and a rubber plantation during British rule (1796-1948), Bawa reimagined the site as a queer space.

We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I've been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery, but when that dream meets life we are shut down" ❤️

“I want the separation between the expression of politics in the gallery & the practice of politics in life to disappear. I want the institution to understand: if you want us inside you need to listen to us outside. Ceasefire now, arms embargo now free Palestine.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Our final event of the semester is this Wednesday, 4-6pm and it promises to be fantastic. Mo Moulton will be in conversation with Matt Cook on the topic of 'New Directions in Queer and Trans History'. The event is hybrid, and you can sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

From our archive — Mira Rai Waits explores the history of fingerprinting in India under British rule (2016, 17:1), examining how the scientific technology was bound up in a politics of identification and classification, embedded in colonial infrastructures: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow, I’ll be talking about journal publishing and @vcib.bsky.social for @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social — if you’re interested in writing for us, get in touch!

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a lecture at @newcastleuni.bsky.social on queer ecologies and anti-colonial abundance in Sri Lankan art. The event will start at 5:15pm in the Fine Art seminar room of the King Edward VII Building. All welcome!

Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋! I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

It was a joy to review ‘Making a rukus! Black Queer Histories through Love and Resistance’ at Somerset House for @1854.photography, thinking through an aesthetics of archival abundance: www.1854.photography/2024/10/quee...

‘Postcards from the Apocalypse’: Tanya Agathocleous’ article from our archive (17:13, 2016) explores ways in which literature and film have imagined London in ruins, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: doi.org/10.1080/1471...

I am delighted to share this fully funded PhD on 'The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present'. An AHRC CDP with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall, and @ MuseumoftheHome Marina Maniadaki, Louis Platman. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...