Yay Leslie!!! Excited to be launching The Moving Word by Leslie James @harvardpress.bsky.social with colleagues from @qmulsse.bsky.social & beyond: Get your copy here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #Skystorians

Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming 'Rethinking Internationalism' conference on 19-20th March in London: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social

AND IT HAS AN EPIC TITLE! But seriously, if you are keen on international/transnational histories outside of the usual halls of power and some cool methodological wizardry, @smidbob.bsky.social has you covered! Read!

Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Come to this @rshc.bsky.social!

My new book arrived in the post from @manchesterup.bsky.social! Pleased to see it for real! Make cheese not war: Transnational resistance and the Larzac in Modern France manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175878/ 🗃 #skystorians

Join us for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026 with Prof. Sandrine Kott on 19 March 2026 @rshc.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anti-fasci...

*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England* An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️ Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

Does what is says on the tin! And hopefully is a good representative example of some of my thinking on how postcolonial challenges leave room for interventions in big global principles.

Join us for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026 with Prof. Sandrine Kott on 19 March 2026 @rshc.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anti-fasci...

Knee deep in marking and, like my gorgeous girl here, not ready to face that the holiday season is over. (Nope, she still won’t let us get rid of it)

If you or anyone you know might be interested, it is still possible to sign up for and attend this workshop on second projects tomorrow: www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-uk-r...

Do come along! A slight change in the line up – Dr. Amar Sohal of Kings will be in conversation with Prof. Devji @faisaldevji.bsky.social

It bears constant repetition that expertise is nurtured slowly over a very long time. It doesn’t bounce back like a rubber band with every flex of a spreadsheet. Once it is gone, it can’t be rapidly rebuilt overnight or on demand. P.S. a lot of Research and innovation happens at unis.

Do come along next Monday!

Come along and let me try my ideas out on you?

My friend Henry Dee's new book "Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951" has just been published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Check it out here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from @rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW

This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥 📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍 ⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️ 📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]

looks great. congrats ria

Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link) Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...

Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Incredible article on the problems of citizenship in the aftermath of empire and refugees’ use of air travel to carve out a space for themselves between exclusionary and conflicting immigration regimes.

Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

The third workshop in the 'Rethinking Internationalisms' series!

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Join us for this event with Edgar Taylor on the Ugandan Archives: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-a...

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....