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 the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London. 🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025 🕜 1.30–3pm 📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL 🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

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....

Friends, did anyone send me a very delightful mug? I picked it up from our post room today, it is brilliant. But it did not come with a note.

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/...

Brilliant opportunity, do consider applying!

I was going to use my Sunday to do a little writing, but my muse tells me it is too warm for her to help.

(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...

I think these last few weeks and months have highlighted how important it is to have a better, more lucid conversation about migration. Do come along to this @rshc.bsky.social event on the 5th.

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Am presenting tomorrow at this IHR seminar on the Ugandan Asians, to see the ways in which applying categories of migration can divorce skills and value the humanity of people who hold them - and so from notions kin, community, language, of fears and of dreams. Tragically well timed, alas.

Come by for this Raph Sam event on archives - organised by @onslies.bsky.social and featuring an all star cast!

Booking is also open for the Society's 2025 Prothero Lecture, on Weds 2 July, with Prof Peter Gatrell. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on an academic career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All welcome. #Skystorians

Still time to send in your proposals! @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

This is very much "can clever people just talk about the stuff I really enjoy for a couple of hours so I can have a lovely evening". Grateful to those participating and to the Raphael Samuel Centre for indulging me :) #YayArchives #SkyStorians #HistArchives #BookHistory

A useful reminder that understanding verifiable sources, building plausible arguments and interpreting varied information about human experiences - the bread and butter of the Humanities, and certainly of History - is more necessary than ever.

How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK? Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline. www.historyworkshop....

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Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

I am so excited for this, and strongly recommend you come by if you can. Looking forward to hearing @julialaite.bsky.social !

What Emma said - so lovely to share ideas with a wonderful friends and colleagues!

Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

What a conference! Something that started in our minds as a ‘little workshop’ turned into this amazing, intense display of so many fantastic projects & ways of thinking about internationalism

A brilliant start to our AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms project, with generous and thoughtful contributions. Daniel Laqua did an amazing job with our first outing, and he, @drmargottudor.bsky.social , @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and I look forward to continuing these conversations. Stay tuned!

Excellent conference on counter-hegemonic internationalisms at @northumbriauni.bsky.social thanks to the whole team on the AHRC curiosity project @riakapoor.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, and particularly Daniel Laqua for allowing me to attend w/out a paper! 🥳

On Thursday!

Next week, Elisabeth Leake, the Lee E Dirks Chair in History at Tufts' Fletcher School of Diplomacy, will be speaking @qmul.ac.uk She will be talking about global histories of Decolonisation. It's free to attend, with a reception after. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoloniza...

Interested in researching migration and refugee narratives? This online research training session will introduce participants to a wealth of resources and is free to attend. 🗓 20 March 2025 🕰 14:00-15:30 BST 🖥 Online Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC

Just in case you haven’t already seen it Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social will be speaking on a global history of decolonisation on Thu, 6 March (hosted by @rshc.bsky.social and @qmul.ac.uk ‘s IHSS and History) . Free to attend and wine reception after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoloniza...

Just in case you haven’t already seen it Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social will be speaking on a global history of decolonisation on Thu, 6 March (hosted by @rshc.bsky.social and @qmul.ac.uk ‘s IHSS and History) . Free to attend and wine reception after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoloniza...

Come by this afternoon if you can, this was a fantastic read on ideas and practices socialist development and how these visions shape notions of global order.

Really looking forward to this conversation with @sulinlewis.bsky.social, @jamesamark.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social & Leslie James about this excellent book. If anyone wants to join online, please let me know. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Manchester have posted 14 more postdoc positions in 'SHAPE' disciplines - 4x simon fellowships and 10(!) hallsworth fellowships. Simon eligibility is 'within 4 years of PhD award', except career breaks www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... Happy to discuss these via email

One of my brilliant colleagues,Rob Waters, wrote this blog+ a longer HWJ article on a British history of boat crossings. Both are brilliant reads, I do recommend!

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating. From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)! (Part 1) 🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈

I wrote this a while ago on how categories of migration can obscure hierarchies, and how these inequities explain why ‘managing’ mobility entrenches inequities

Paddington bear explains what its like. freemovement.org.uk/an-immigrati...

Quick repost as I see I have some new followers!

To all those newly following me, I and a historian working on migration and refugees in and of the Afro-Asian world and, and their impact on global ideas and practices. I'm now working on the Ugandan Asian expulsion and...(1/2)

How do you pick your book title? As someone notoriously bad at this (my approach is does what it says on the tin), I will take all advice. I have it on good authority that Title TBD is not acceptable.

'Devlin, who is best known for her spectacular theatre and opera stage sets, decided to create her Congregation project in collaboration with the UN high commissioner for refugees after researching the plight of refugees across the world and of those attempting to get to Britain.'

Giving this whole social media thing another proper go, with an appeal for suggestions on histories of interwar mobility and circuses? Does such a thing exist?

Not sure why, but my book is down from £65 to £7.62 on amazon today - if you've been wanting a copy, now might be the time www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Refug...

New to this place, but here posting about histories of people on the move and their rights.