I’ll live on in how others remember me

🚨new article on mixed identities in Morocco🚨 how did mixed families construct their identity and navigate discrimination in the 20th and 21st century? 🇲🇦 find out here, baby… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New job🚨 ill be a senior research associate at Bristol this year, looking at race and religion in British colonial port cities with the Mariners project mar.ine.rs Working on anything to do with colonial ports, sex work or the sea? Let me know the sea is about to become my mistress 🌊

A shame to see such poor copy editing for such a beautiful new book from some top decolonial feminists. To include انتفاضة in Arabic but not to connect the letters? Why you need people who know what they’re doing, not AI.

This is my all-stars round: solid celebrity status articles, beautiful research

Why did the French army send hundreds of North African women to work in illegal brothels in France? newlinesmag.com/essays/franc... Thanks to @newlinesmag.bsky.social, @erinclarebrown.bsky.social and @faisalalyafai.bsky.social for publishing this research.

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Can we all just stop writing for a year to let everyone catch up?

Another day, another email signed “nest, Catherine”

“Yeah so actually the reason that I’ve published a lot is that every year I’m certain I’ll have to leave academia and not be able to write anything else” 😊🙃

Did George Orwell pay for sex in a colonial brothel in Morocco? Orwell and his wife Eileen spent a few months living in a villa outside of Marrakech in the late 1930s. He wrote the essay "Marrakech" about daily life there, but Marrakech in the 1930s was also home to hundreds of colonial brothels...

Hello from the archives du Maroc where a cat has walked into the reading room More to follow

Humbled. Getting passport photos taken in Morocco and watching the woman photoshop me. Worried will be rejected at customs for not having same glowy skin and fake eyelashes.

I need someone good at music to do a Nancy ajram Britney Spears mashup, my soul cries for it

The rumours are false! The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun. An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning

The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is 🔥 Dozens of paintings, obsessed with femininity, violence, power and sensuality, and most showing her as the main heroine. They show Gentileschi’s work throughout her life, not just the rape trial or her fury as a survivor

Sitting in a cafe in Paris. An American couple have arrived at their Airbnb across the street, had an argument about no air conditioning, and bought three new fans from Monoprix within the space of one cafe crème.

Controversial… I think 10 million euros is completely reasonable for this famous piece of 20th century history www.france24.com/en/france/20...

How have the Irish community in Bristol used parades as a way of exploring memory and history? Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social‬) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland. www.historyworkshop....

Desperate to get away from the front lines? In WW1, some men tried to make it look as though they had venereal diseases and had unhealthy discharge. How? By injecting condensed milk inside their penises… others purposefully bruised their penises to look ill and get out of action

“Yeah so I’m on holiday from work to do more work” can you explain a writing retreat without sounding pathetic?

The most famous brothel in Paris was owned by an Irish women Madame Kelly, aka Alexandrine Jouannet, opened Le Chabanais in 1878 when sex work was legal in France. The brothel was known for keeping Edward VII’s sex chair and champagne bath tub Mme Kelly famously dressed very well and smoked a LOT…

5 in the morning and writing fuelled by spite. Is this how Sylvia Plath felt?

*reposting to irritate Medievalists*

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Coming soon…. “Sex, race and colonial power in North Africa: the French Protectorate in Morocco” with @manchesterup.bsky.social I’m away this summer for a fellowship at NIMAR in Rabat, Morocco to finish up, thanks to BILNAS funding via @britishacademy.bsky.social Anyone in Rabat/Casa? Say hi!

Jesus Christ, Gail’s really goes HARD on pumping out the croissant smell. Staying in a flat directly above one, have been smelling pastry for hours, am starving.

Did British army officers really use Indian babies to hunt crocodiles? In India and Sri Lanka, from the 1890s, newspapers report British army officers using Indian babies as "bait" to hunt crocodiles. One officer claimed to have shot over 100 crocodiles by using a baby to lure them to shore.

Hundreds of Indian sailors came to Britain for work in the 19th century and settled in parts of Liverpool and London with British women. But they didn't all want to stay...

Albert John Mahomet (b.1858), one of the first Indian-British photographers. His father was an Indian sailor who came to Britain, selling watches and knives in Norfolk then marrying a British woman and moving to East London. But Albert's father returned to India, suffering homesickness and racism...

Fascinating new #OpenAccess article by Insa Nolte in @genderandhistory.bsky.social : "Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa" 🌟https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.12864

OTD 2016, Nigel Farage unveiled a poster showing a large queue of immigrants in the final days of the Brexit campaign. From the archive, Alison Hudson on a how a Medieval North African Book, in the context of Brexit, can be a radical object against racist rhetoric: www.historyworkshop....

Did you wash your hair this morning? Then you've Dean Mahomed, the "Shampooing Surgeon" to thank. Born in India in the 18th century, he fought in the British army under an Irish man, Captain Baker, who encouraged him to move to Cork, where he fell in love with an Irish woman, Jane...

article in the Times blaming smartphones for the UK’s “fertility crisis” the reasons are childcare costs, finances/housing and because being a parent sounds hard and crap; compare that a multi-generational community with shared caring responsibilities? Don’t think it’s the damn phones

are you wearing the... Roman child's penis ring? Yeah, I am Tiny gold ring for a child from the 1st century with a phallus as a symbol for protection from the evil eye. Would wear. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122231...

How can you resist fascism through the clothes you wear? In occupied France in WW2, female members Resistance members dressed as elegantly as possible as the police were less likely to stop them, and to try to flirt their way through document checks. High heels and stockings could save their lives🧵

My first article for the @erc.europa.eu funded COLVET project has been published Open Access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It explores how the Greater War concept might facilitate better engagement with colonial experiences of conflict in the early 20th century www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Turns out your wedgie is the New York mayor’s fault… TIL that thongs were invented by mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who wanted naked Burlesque dancers at the 1939 World Fair to cover up more as part of crackdown on immorality. Thongs were actually invented to STOP public nudity? Who knew?!

TLDR: Medicine and forensic science in Britain and France had direct results on colonial laws and penal codes in parts of modern Africa 🧵

“Sodomy leaves traces”according to 19th-century forensic science, like “excessive development of the buttocks” and a “funnel-shaped anus”. Around the world, laws criminalising sex between men as a result of colonial rule often use anal exams as “proof”. This sexual assault comes from history…

Living in small holes in the ground on the plains near Kildare, the “Wrens of the Curragh” were a group of Irish women who sold sex to British soldiers in the nearby encampment. Their lives were undeniably difficult: the holes they burrowed were around 9x14 foot for more than 20 of them 🧵

In Coventry in the 1960s, 21 Punjabi Indian women were tricked into eating a radioactive chapati every morning as part of a medical experiment. Many of them couldn’t read the letter from the Medical Research Council explaining the possible effects of radioactive isotopes 🧵

It wasn’t just the Nazis who carried out medical experiments on imprisoned, vulnerable populations in the 20th century…. In Ireland, Glaxo Smith Kline tested vaccines and baby formula on 1,500 children in mother and baby homes for decades until 1973. Some were just three months old 🧵

Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social. Bristol's Shed museum is screening a short documentary about the lead up and immediate aftermath of Colston's toppling. Context, and the cult of Colston. You can also see the toppled relic, graffiti and all, in a case at the end of our PROTEST Gallery too.

Spent my morning supporting English Collective of Prostitutes outside Downing Street - to mark 50 years since 100 prostitutes in Lyon, France occupied Saint Nizier Church, launching the modern movement for sex workers’ liberation.

On Wednesday I’m talking with nathanlents.bsky.social in Bristol about disrupting gender binaries, biological sex as a spectrum, and monkey sex. Come and watch me be a scientist for an evening! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sexual...

Today I learnt that Robert De Niro has a trans daughter and he’s lovely to her: “I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Ask for a cigarette and they ask if I can roll??? Of course not, I’m almost 30, I’ve been making other people do it for me for decades now… this is my culture xx

Reminder that word for the fatha (فتحة) in Arabic and the fada in Irish are almost the same. They both refer to marks above the word to indicate a vowel. Love those indo-European links.