Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue! My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

By donating to our GoFundMe, you are not only helping us fund our projects, but you are also us fund the development of the young Black British people who choose to volunteer their time into helping these projects come to fruition. Thank you! #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿 gofund.me/2d21c2b9a

Hi everyone! As some of you may know, our organisation, YHP, is focused on the promotion of the scholarship of Black British History. We have some amazing projects which we can't wait to share with you next year. But the research, editing etc. for these projects are done on a volunteer basis.

It’s International Migrants Day, and let’s never stop fighting for a world where anyone can move if they want to, and no-one is forced to move if they don’t want to

Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.

Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.

Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...

'Women work longer and earn just a third – 32% – of what men get per hour, when paid and unpaid labour, such as domestic work, are taken into account. Even when unpaid domestic labour is not included, women only earn 61% of what men make, according to the report.' 1/2

I cannot believe we elected a human rights lawyer and got this!

🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain! We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027. 📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili

Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...

Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...

As a regular reader, I am out on the picket line again today, supporting staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who are JUST asking for decent pay

'tis the book-flogging season, so would be remiss of me not to highlight 40 percent off my books with @umasspress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY) and @illinoispress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY40) - plenty of other great books also available!

Thrilled to see this generous review by Benjamin Mountford on my book Multiracial Britishness, on my first day back at work after a long sick leave!

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press

Truly obscene. "Membership of the 110-year-old organisation will be restricted to those who are registered female at birth, with new members or those renewing expected to confirm that they meet the criteria." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

To mark Disability History Month, explore how women’s experiences have shaped disability history and why they must be counted. Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network: womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women... #DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility

“It goes in fits and starts, but I’m still here, publishing posts infrequently, to no particular schedule.” williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t... 🗃️

As the Government prepares to publish its child poverty strategy a joint @acmedsci.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social roundtable report on the factors affecting educational performance shows tackling poverty should be a priority acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/de...

The late 1950s through children's imagination - pop culture, aspirations, tea and sudden death The 'Lollard Children's Magazine', linked with the Lollard Street adventure playground, gave Lambeth kids a space to express themselves on the page #HistChild mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/LAH/...

Excited to launch, with @callingdrjones.bsky.social, 'History in Practice' - an informal space to collectively share, reflect, and collaborate on all things related to history teaching in universities Some excellent pieces to begin with, please do get involved! www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p...

Huge thanks to Stella Dadzie for her incredible lecture tonight. A dream come true to be in conversation with her

We have been shortlisted for a Haringey Community Award 2025 for our work promoting Black British history, culture and creativity. We're thrilled to be acknowledged in this way. Thank you to Haringey Community Collaborative for the honour.

The opportunity for Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is still available! Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026. @uofgstem.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

Please share: 2 fully funded 4 year PhD studentships for autumn 2026 entry at the Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social here at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Stella Dadzie will be giving a guest lecture on Thursday 27th November! She will also be signing copies of her new book! Please join us - all welcome!

Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today. Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469

Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...

See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea bsky.app/profile/sgfm...

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

My amazement continues: Waterstones has chosen Vanished as one of best books of the year. Especially pleased that history of science is being featured on these lists, and even more so as imperial history is even rarer on these lists. Hurrah! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

THE EXHIBITION IS BACK AND RUNNING AT THE BLACKHORSE WORKSHOP CAFE IN WALTHAMSTOW. DETAILS BELOW 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

‘“Resistance” spans the hundred years or so during which the photographic print was the primary medium of visual communication. Aesthetically and technically, this makes sense. Politically, however, it’s curious.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on Steve McQueen. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Corporate profit margins have increased by 30% since the pandemic. Electricity companies have trebled their margins. The 4 big banks made £45bn in 2022 (up by 75%). But instead of talking about corporate profiteering our gov talks about taking jewellery and “identifiable assets” from migrants.

Truly and utterly stunned. The Telegraph has chosen Vanished as one of the ‘greatest books of 2025’ and described it as a ‘rigorous, fascinating narrative.’ Verily, this is the most unexpected place for my roar to have reached. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...