The brilliant Sadiyah Qureshi delivered a thoughtprovoking lecture entitled "Extinction's Futures" at yesterday's Aylmer Lecture organised by the University of York's Department of History.

Følte meg litt creepy på Ark Beyer idag, men måtte selvsagt skaffe meg boka til @oarn.bsky.social! Gleder meg til å lese Morð, mens kona pugger til anatomieksamen.

This, from Nick Kristof, is required reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

'The continued investments in companies that actively contribute to Israel’s violations of international law equals accepting these mass atrocities.' www.middleeasteye.net/news/crimina...

Happy May Day!

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social @owenjdowling.bsky.social reviews 'Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World' by @meltorrent.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

JICH has returned to Q1 for 2025, according to latest ScimagoJR rankings. Well done to our dedicated team, and looking forward to maintaining this through 2026 and beyond! @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social

Our most recent Current Debates essay is now out! In "Aporias of Decolonial Anti-Imperialism" doi.org/10.1080/0308... Sindre Bangstad offers a critique of the internal contradictions of decolonial theorists handling of non-Western imperialism and settler colonialism. @jich.bsky.social

CALL FOR INTERVIEWEES I'm looking to conduct research interviews with people who were involved in Anti-Apartheid, anti-Vietnam War, &/or Chile solidarity politics in Britain, for my PhD on international solidarity & the Cold War-era UK left (see below). PLEASE SHARE/get in touch!

It's here! Issue 2 for 2026 is published - check out JICH Vol. 54(2) now: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Pleased that my review of 'Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World' by Melanie Torrent (Bloomsbury, 2024) in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) is now available online! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New and #OpenAccess, check out 'From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997' by Tracy H. C. Leung: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Really enjoyed listening to @markusmindrebo.bsky.social who delivered a magisterial lecture on the evolving cultural depictions of Viking women. An absolute treat on a Tuesday evening (at Stavanger Archaeological Museum)! @unistavanger.bsky.social

*Marx making a shocked face.jpg“

It's getting real! Mock up book cover designs are in for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" (Liverpool UP, 2026)

America will defeat Trump in a million brilliant ways...

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Fun fact om en mulig vei for koblingen mellom Epstein, Rød Larsen og Jagland. I 2002 var det bråk om Israel, Mona Juul, Rød-Larsen og penger fra Peres-senteret. Fra 1999 var Isabel S. Maxwell søster til G. Maxwell leder av senteret. www.weforum.org/people/isabe... www.fvn.no/mening/i/Gna...

Toje ønsker å være en operatør i det globale ytre høyre. Og bruker Nobel-rollen sin til det. Større skandale enn Mette Marit spør du meg.

Drawing from his @universitypress.cambridge.org Element (2022) Progress and the Scale of History, @tysonretz.bsky.social discusses notions of progress here on this podcast: www.notionsofprogress.com/five-faces-o...

Fresh and #OpenAccess, check out 'Intra-Caribbean Diplomacy and Imperial Negotiation; Edward Trelawny, the Marquis de Larnage, and Anglo-French relations in the West Indies, 1720–1748' by Christos Giannatos: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

Jeg hadde gleden av å bidra til en diskusjon med Jean Christine Cena og Gro Holm om amerikansk imperialisme på NRK P2 'Ekko' idag. Takk for invitasjonen Lena Gundersby Gravdal! Lytt til episoden her: radio.nrk.no/podkast/ekko...

Our latest 'Current Debates' essay is now out! In 'The Debate over British Reparations for Mandate-Era Governance of Palestine? Three views' John B. Quigley questions the legality of Britain's League of Nations Mandate over Palestine. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0308...

There has recently been a welcome growth in work at the intersection of business history and German colonial. This very interesting essay, from @nkleinoeder.bsky.social, is the most recent addition to this emerging stream of work.

Our most recent Current Debates essay is now out. In "The East India Company as Landowner" John Marriott considers the legal origins of British colonial rule in India. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308... @jich.bsky.social

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

Trump 2.0’s political war against democracy in Honduras www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Have a read of our recent current debate 'AI Empire: The Rise of Technocolonialism' by Mohammad Mohi Uddin: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Hot off the press! Check out 'Abolitionist Currents Converging on the Windward Coast: Land Negotiations in 1821 for a U.S. Colony in West Africa' by C. Patrick Burrowes: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

My piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk reflects on the politics of forgetting, detailing how Hong Kong’s displaced colonial archives have exiled memory to the metropole www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol... Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/7 Some important books have been published recently, by leading experts on the history of slavery. What they say is critical when weighing up Commonwealth reparations claims.

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

See the latest #OpenAccess current debate 'Late Colonial Unreason' by Bill Schwarz: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Check out the recent article 'Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums' by Gareth Knapman, Paul Turnbull, Cressida Fforde & Jocelyn S. Bardot: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay is now out! In "Late Colonial Unreason" Bill Schwarz reflects on the continuities of colonialism in the present. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308...

What role did Australian police forces play in generating Aboriginal cultural artefacts for museums? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you for delivering such a brilliant talk at yesterday's symposium entitled "Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide" @martinshaw.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled: "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide" Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social). networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

In our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled "Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law", Nicola Perugini interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social). networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Scholars include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

It's the 15th anniversary of my first ever archival trip - I ran into @jonasgjerso.bsky.social, who took this (candid!) photo

We are proud to share that JICH has received over 58k downloads in 2025's 3rd quarter - a 76% increase from this time last year! Well done to our editorial team and all our supporters - @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In 'Neutral in Matters of Party Politics'? Brenton Griffin explores the role of the Mormon Church in Commonwealth politics. @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New book review published at @jich.bsky.social @joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' @versobooks.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....