I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Check out my responses - along with other UN historians - about why we study the UN (and why you should too)

Men aren’t hot like Robert Redford anymore

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Back from a lovely week in Vaxjo for @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social conference on global history with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social and Daniel Laqua. I presented some new work on anti-UN peacekeeping protests on a double panel for our ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ project 🌍

This is who the Labour gov is arresting. This is who the Labour government calls terrorists. Hundreds more of them. www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

This seems to be an instructive case: when legacy media appropriate the aesthetics of #MemeFascism (even if with critical intent), they make themselves into a vehicle for MAGA propaganda. The memefied brains behind the DHS account correctly recognized this as a perfect recruitment poster 1/

What have been the best/most effective/meaningful environmental changes in 20thC Britain, in your view? I'm writing a new unit & have lots of disasters, decline, and conflicts; but I don't think it's been all bad. Some egs. of positive changes - intro of National Parks; rise of green politics...

This truth bears repeating, again and again. theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...

in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

Thanks to @us.theconversation.com for giving @victorkattan.bsky.social and I the chance to write about the #WesternSahara dispute amid changes in the UK policy, the investment race ahead of #FIFA2030 World Cup, and Trump's renewed disregard for international law theconversation.com/morocco-usin...

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

UK gov: we want to build vast new data centres because something something AI and never mind the environmental cost. Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails! Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄

By my count this makes 5 out of 12 authors on the Polari First Book longlist who have withdrawn. It's hard to understate the moral courage this involves, esp for folk launching their first book into the world. As so often, those with the most to lose end up showing the most moral fibre. Solidarity x

Oh this is scandalous. “Senior international aid officials have met with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and discussed collaborating with the US- and Israeli-backed group” despite many of them publicly criticising GHF. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...

Preorder the newly reissued ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE (Seven Stories Press) from us. All proceeds to Sameer. It was originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of SNCC and is finally being reissued! open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

so, so well deserved!

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

become ungovernable

How can the entangled histories of asylum denial help us to understand the politics of exclusion? Niro Kandasamy on the struggle of Tamil asylum seekers denied entry to Britain. www.historyworkshop....

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

Brace yourself. This one is sobering, difficult to watch and read, but absolutely critical. I tried reading and watching earlier today with my kid, age 8, and had to stop. It’s heavy. Bravo @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

"We go to sleep in sweat and wake up in sweat 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no respite. Help us. Please. This is cruel and unusual punishment." –Tutankhamon Waterman on extreme heat in US prisons, which often lack AC. inquest.org/108-degr...

It's all fun and games with vague invocations of 'the working class' to justify racist sh*t and then a black working class hero gets brutalised for engaging in anti-imperialist solidarity and it's *crickets*

And it's almost certainly an undercount www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

Four year fixed-term lectureship in global & imperial history, Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC516/d...

We’re so excited to welcome Kerry to our department and to celebrate the publication of his fantastic book with @universitypress.cambridge.org!!!

"Despite these attacks on her integrity and person, Albanese maintains faith in the human rights law instruments." Dr @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com on the imposed sanctions against UN special rapporteur, Francesca Albanese. bit.ly/3IM5E83

Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel. africasacountry.com/2025/07/eura...

Looking for a workplace, offsite or team-building event for your department or organisation? Have a look at the Migration Museum's offerings, which can be tailored to your group's needs. 90-minute, half-day and full-day options on offer. And you'll be helping the team build Britain's missing museum.

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

not shaming anyone for shopping at waterstones ofc, but i would say that one of many joys about small independent bookshops is that i can guarantee everytime i walk into Storysmiths or @bookhaus.bsky.social (for eg) i will be faced with a table of thoughtfully curated books - often small presses

Exciting news! The first publication for our 'Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms' SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social is available to read! Pls check out Aileen Lichtenstein's great article on 'Lucy Parsons's Propaganda Tour of Britain, November–December 1888' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!

Surprised that this remarkable investigation into how Netanyahu prolonged the war in Gaza — killing tens of 1000s of civilians — for his own benefit has not gotten more attention. So: gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-...

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

I've donated to the crowdfunder to keep Bristol's radical bookshop @bookhaus.bsky.social open, please consider contributing if you can #bristol www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

💫 ANNOUNCING THE POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 💫 Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/anno...

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

(2/2) Participation is free, just sign up so we can send across the link to the right email address. Organised by @jessicareinisch.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

'In this powerful collection, Saramandi seeks to dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunnelling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery....' - Heather Magee reviews PORTRAIT OF AN ISLAND ON FIRE by Ariel Saramandi for The Bookbag: www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/Port...

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

manhattan really leaning into pathetic fallacy atm with 2 thunderstorms and an extreme heat warning, like, we get it !!!

Reviewers have commented on my overuse of scare quotes in the past but I’ve got nothing on Ralph Bunche