I presented a paper that emerged parallel to my PhD research on convict transportation by comparing it to radical politics at the workshop on Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present presented by @errnetwork.bsky.social organised by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social & @siobhanhyland.bsky.social

Returning from leave to 2 really helpful reader reports for a journal article I've co-authored with @siobhanhyland.bsky.social - I'll need to do some work to make it ready for publication, BUT so nice that reviewers called it "strong scholarship" and "well written". And that 1 of them "enjoyed" it!

Just waiting for my copy - this was a brilliant collaboration on archives 😂

In @errnetwork.bsky.social's latest blog post @siobhanhyland.bsky.social explains how she's working on my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project as a research assistant: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️

great presentations from @menysnoweballes.bsky.social and @siobhanhyland.bsky.social for @carantes.bsky.social tonight. and lo and behold: echosofantiquity.com/products/mod...

Delighted to get my author copy of this - including my chapter with @siobhanhyland.bsky.social on some of our wellbeing approaches from the @searchlightarchive.bsky.social. A fantastic first book from the annual conferences of @uninorthampton.bsky.social’s Centre for Historical studies.

Addressing the Extreme Right Threat: A Year after the Riots A free workshop on 6 June at University of Northampton 🗃️https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20064239/addressing-extreme-right-threat-year-after-riots

The Extreme Right Research Network (@errnetwork.bsky.social) has updated its Extreme Right Aware CPD training for 2025. Thanks to funding, tickets are only £20 and we have free tickets we can make available for charities, community groups etc. Led by @pnjackson.bsky.social, on 23rd May 2025.

This summer the Extreme Right Research Network will be hosting a free in-person workshop/conference covering the Extreme Right. With talks from academics, practitioners and professionals, it should be a great day. Please share with your networks, and get in touch if you are interested in attending.

📢 The Centre for Historical Studies annual conference will be on the 7-8 July 2025 and the call for papers is live. Please consider submitting an abstract and please do share the call for papers with your wider networks. The link: lnkd.in/gZDbWGsu The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2025.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY WOMEN HISTORIANS: Political Nostalgias Volume 2 - the modern and contemporary world. 🗃️ Please share with your networks. Any questions - email me!

Delighted to share news of a free in-person workshop I've co-organised in May at the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) to discuss the need for explicitly antifascist pedagogies against the rising tide of far-right support and what that practice would look like. Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...

My new article on British fascism and emotions has just been published in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies: ‘Wake Up—John’: Proto-Fascist Anxieties and the Emotionology of the British Fascists It's open access here: brill.com/view/journal...

Looking for a recommendation - an academic who could give a talk on why social media privilege the far right. What is it about the algorithms that has those effects? Event would be evening in the UK, but they could participate remotely. Particularly looking for a woman speaker, if possible.

BUMP for my politicised nostalgias online workshop next week. Can't wait for the in person day tomorrow!! We've got lots of sign ups for this already so should have a good audience. shop.northampton.ac.uk/product-cata... 🗃️

Now @narson.bsky.social & @siobhanhyland.bsky.social discuss The National Front in the East Midlands: A Local View 1967-1984. Mainstream politicians like Cyril Osborne, MP for Louth, had stoked anxieties about immigration from the 50s onward. 1968: foundation of Anti-Immigration Society in Leicester

Today the Extreme Right Research Network are hosting online conference Local Contexts, Extreme Politics - some really fascinating papers. Currently listening to the ever-excellent Paul Jackson discussing The National Socialist Group: A North East Lincolnshire Groupuscule. 🗃️

Next Monday my colleague @siobhanhyland.bsky.social and I are hosting a free online conference/workshop on local and regional extremism in the historical and contemporary context. Register (and see our programme) at: shop.northampton.ac.uk/product-cata...

BTW I'll do a proper post when the programme is finalised, but if you're already keen to attend the online 12 July day you can sign up now. Timings TBC but will be attempting to accommodate multiple time zones. Register here: shop.northampton.ac.uk/product-cata...

Had an interesting range of people sign up to this so far! Do get in touch if you've got any queries and please share with your networks.

Our Extreme Right Research Network is hosting two training events that may be of interest to you! One is this Friday and one is the 21st. Please share and feel free to sign up if you are interested!

Following feedback, and interest from abroad, we have switched our workshop/conference on local contexts of extremism to an online event. If you'd like to come along, or give a talk, do get in touch! Some great talks already lined up. 🗃️

Reminder! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Our 5 July day is FULL but our online 12 July day has space for speakers - send me an abstract by the end of the month please! 🗃️

Thursday boost, please share. I know many people were interested first time round but can’t get to Northampton - well, now you can take part!! 🗃️

Exciting news - had such a strong response to my Politicised Nostalgias CFP I have now added an additional ONLINE day on 12 July & have reopened the call, please share & submit your abstracts by 31/5! The in person day is currently full. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

The in-person workshop/small conference I'm running with @siobhanhyland.bsky.social has extended its call for proposals until May 4th. Aimed at both charities and others working around radicalisation, as well as historians 🗃️ and other academics working in this area. If you are curious, get in touch!

Last day to get abstracts in for this in person conference at Northampton on 4th July. Want to present your work that examines extremism in relation to place or sub-national contexts? Want to engage with a mixed audience of practitioners and academics? Drop us an email! 🗃️

Final week to get abstracts in for this event on local and regional contexts of the far right. Historical and contemporary examinations welcome. If you want to put an abstract in but need a bit more time, drop me a line. 🗃️

reposting for the evening crowd (🤷): NORTHAMPTON MASSIVE takeover of Family & Community History Journal, starring: @pnjackson.bsky.social, @siobhanhyland.bsky.social, @narson.bsky.social, et moi examining familial and communal aspects of fascism and antifascism www.tandfonline.com/toc/yfch20/2... 🗃️

pleased to announce my first article in the (cyber) flesh: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It examines Myatt’s vision of an authentic Aryan community and his attempts to realise it in rural enclaves; it also details the role that Wulstan Tedder performed, a pseudonym of Myatt. 🗃️

Time for a weekly bump of my CFP for Politicised Nostalgias: A One-Day Workshop! Hosted at the University of Northampton (with some capacity for hybrid contributions), we invite papers from antiquity to the contemporary. Have had a bunch of absolutely fascinating abstracts thus far! Qs? Ask! 🗃️

A call for papers! 4th of July we are hosting a workshop bringing together practitioners and academics exploring local contexts of extremism. If you are interested, please see the image below or share in your networks. Deadline is 12th April for abstracts/ideas.

🗃️skystorians (and other academics - this is a broad call), I'm very excited to say my CFP for a workshop on politicised nostalgias at the University of Northampton on 5 July is now LIVE: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Please share widely and get in touch with any queries.

Holocaust Memorial Day Event at the University of Northampton, please see flyer for details:

German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against 27 people, including a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, in connection with an alleged plot to topple the government that came to light with a slew of arrests a year ago www.theguardian.com/world/2023/d...