The important work carried out by DOMA in remembering the life and legacy of David Oluwale in Leeds is truly brilliant. Looking forward to Kennetta Hammond Perry’s forthcoming book!

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

‘Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented writers, but also recognises that their selections sometimes give the impression of being definitive.’ Christine Okoth on the Black British publisher. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The findings in Baroness Amos’ maternity report are desperately sad and frustrating. They reveal a maternal health system that has been systematically weakened and the results are that women and babies lose their lives unnecessarily.

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

Seminar klaxon! 📣 We're delighted to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the seminar series on Tuesday 30th June, 4pm-5pm BST. Sylvia will be giving a paper titled, 'Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Woman's Oral History of West Africa'. Sign up using the link below: womenshistorynetwork.org/join-us-for-...

📣 Come join us at @ihr.bsky.social for last @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar of 2025/26. A great paper to end the term with @ruthdav.bsky.social speaking about her forthcoming book. Book via link below: Weds 24 June: 5.30pm, in-person only. See you there @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians

If you are an ECR and gave a paper at #MBS26, please do send us your paper and slides for consideration for our 'Best ECR Paper' prize. Details on our website, www.modbritstud.org.uk

📢New article in JBS! 📗"The 'Asian Mother and Baby Campaign': Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain," by Saima Nasar Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.” Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter. “I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”

I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is what Ruth Wilson Gilmore called the “organised abandonment” of the poor. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians

We're a way off publication (likely December this year) and this is not the cover, but it's exciting to see that our book has a web page! www.routledge.com/Reusing-Oral...

OTD in 2020 the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protests. From the HW archives Madge Dresser revisits the statue's particular history. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/slavery/cols...

📣Out now on #firstview! Anna Muggeridge @worcesteruni.bsky.social and Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social on 'Revisiting the Politics of Motherhood in Modern British History' #Motherhood #Political #Maternal #History #Identity 20thc 🗃️👩‍🍼 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thanks so much for sharing, Saima, was such a joy to spend the day with you! And such an amazing experience to work on this exhibition over the past year - hope you enjoy it, everyone!

They arrived & they are beautiful! @prisonculture.bsky.social www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

Thrilled to have been invited to Kensington Palace to hear the brilliant @priyaatwal.bsky.social talk about ‘The Last Princesses of Punjab!’ Very much enjoyed learning about their activism. The exhibition is up until November, go see it! www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-p...

My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Charles Wotten murdered in 1919 by white rioters accusing foreigners of stealing their jobs. History is long. Recent history is longer. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Ahead of next week's #MBS26 conference, our website is now live! Check out our new blog series, Histories from Here, and our plans for prizes and conferences in Modern British Studies modbritstud.org.uk

Just a week to go until 'Learning in Emergency States: Flourishing, Universities and the Future', with Wendy Brown, Paul Gilroy, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by John Sabapathy. It's on 5 June starting at 17:30 in UCL's Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. 1/3

The #AHR’s new #AHRSyllabus project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, features 30 teaching modules on authoritarianism across global history, with primary sources, historical context, and teaching resources. Start exploring today.

OTD in 2020, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the world following the murder of George Floyd. To mark this date we have chosen some pieces from our archive which explore and celebrate Black history. First up is Emma-Lee Amponsah's reflection on Black Cultural Memory.

In this quirky photo essay, artist Shizza Majeed illustrates her grandfather's personal story of belonging as a Pakistani man who moved to Britain in the 60s. ✍🏽Sabah Salam hyphenonline.com/2025/11/17/b...

I have a prize lecture about extinction this Thursday evening at the Royal Society. I’ll also receive a medal. Tickets are free and it will also be steamed on YouTube. Booking and watching details here: royalsociety.org/science-even...

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Wonderful to hear the brilliant Kimberlé Crenshaw discuss the power of collective organising today. Thanks to the Black Studies team at BCU for making it happen. “‘We’ is a verb!”

Solidarity with all trans + people today. And if you're cis like me and have any agency in shaping your institution's policies regarding toilets etc, please exercise it in defence against those who want to take away human rights.

In 1976-78, the Grunwick dispute became a UK labour movement cause célèbre Dubbed the 'strikers in saris', the largely female and South Asian workforce fought for union recognition Recordings with key participants (in 2007) are available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Archive30 #SoundAndVision

Hot off the press - congrats, @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social! And what a fab cover!

If you're near Birmingham on the 3rd June, here's a chance to reflect on the importance of music to Stuart Hall's work. Organised by the Stuart Hall Archive project, with Mykaell Riley and our own Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social

What a striking image of a tube carriage from this weekend. Via Danny Briottet

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When I moved to London 5 years ago, I did not think that I would ever wonder if it was safe to move through the city just because of the color of my skin. Today, this is the case. Yet again. Far-right agitators and thugs are roaming the streets. Empowered and emboldened by the rhetoric and politics

Good week for books! 📚 In chronological order: 1) Mon: exciting haul from Afrori Books 😎 2) Tues: @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social’s latest 🫶🏽 3) Weds: Stasi monograph co-written with @profsarajones.bsky.social& Betiel Wasihun 🤓 4) Fri: my first trip to The Bookish Type in Leeds 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

New post on RefugeeHistory.org by Emma Dal Mas on international Catholic action for children in the early Cold War: refugeehistory.org/blog/2026/5/...

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

The next Black Feminist Reading Group meeting, organised by Glory Oluwaseun, is on Tuesday 26 May. Do not miss it!

No Future: Anniversary Edition: Punk, Politics, and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 by Matthew Worley – Book Review @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social #punkbook “...for anyone trying to make sense of what happens when a generation decides it has nothing left to lose. louderthanwar.com/no-future-an...

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Please do read my recently published article in Past and Present on caste, and indentured Indian sanitary workers on ships and in colonial South Africa.

'Birmingham City University has blamed low demand after deciding to close its master’s course in black studies just a year after it launched.' Yet another example of commitment (sic) to racial equality in higher education. Shocking after a 1-year trial. 1/3

Also published today in Transactions: Peter Gatrell's article 'The "RefugeeWorld": A Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/49nWmtg This is an article version of Peter's 2025 Prothero Lecture given in July last year. Now available free Open Access 1/2 #Skystorians

Annual Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture, 18 June 2026, 18:00-21:00 at Birkbeck: Toby Green, 'History at the 'End of History': Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism'. #Skystorians