Really interesting new work about Open Educational Resources from @drclairebrennan.bsky.social, Claire Ovaska and Don Garden, reflecting on teaching histories of Pacific exploration and the rich digital afterlives one course found in digital public history. #OER Read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/0082...

PAKISTAN: Hugo Boss and LPP urged to rejoin Pakistan Accord on Rana Plaza anniversary fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...

BBC News - Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is going down a dangerous path

'Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine, it can be revealed.'

We are proud to support @localhistoryhub.bsky.social's #LocalHistoryDay Our Learning Manager Tia Shah explores why teaching local history is a great way of engaging young people on migration – and highlighting some digital resources to get you started: www.migrationmuseum.org/why-teaching...

More on Ulster University's redundancy plans.

"With the boundaries of womanhood being more and more policed – and with more and more women being pushed out of it – one begins to wonder what these forces have planned for those they are trapping inside." sharp stuff by Moira Donegan on sex testing & exclusions www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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?

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...

"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- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...

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! 👇👇

'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).

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.

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.

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 docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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?"

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"👇

"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 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’

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...

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/...

If you wanna know more about Marielle's death and the connections between her murder and Jair Bolsonaro, I wrote this episode of QAA Podcast with Julian Feeld, Jake Rockatansky and @travisview.bsky.social . Hope you enjoy it. open.spotify.com/episode/0f7q...

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Sharp insights, with a view to 2028, from Jim McKay on IOC hypocrisy, on banning Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych over his helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes who died during the Russian invasion idrottsforum.org/feature-mcka...

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

CfA, 3x20 month PostDocs looking at Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism, based in Potsdam, starting in May; applications close 10 March

Join us on 19 Feb as we explore the archives and examine the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain. Hear Leila Hassan Howe (Race Today), Nigel De Noronha (CoDE) and Sophia Siddiqui (Institute of Race Relations) with GPI's Sarah Garrod. Chair Arielle Lawson. Free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - The Moscow Playbook: How #Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power with @beastofberglund.bsky.social Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social , then reshare this post for a chance to win a book T&C's coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #coldwar #sports

#OtD 14 Feb 1779 British coloniser captain James Cook was stabbed in the neck and killed by a Native Hawaiian as he tried to kidnap local leader, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. After his crew killed a local chief, Cook had also to shot and killed a Hawaiian person stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8558...

With ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: World Cup fans and players won’t be safe in Trump's US. Demand European countries to boycott the US World Cup matches - unless they are moved. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

Remarkable mural in Milan by street artist aleXsandro Palombo to mark the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...