Management at Sheffield have aggressively ramped up their attacks on striking staff, but we @sheffielducu.bsky.social are unbowed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grim news and vacuous messaging from Essex: 200 academic posts (in unspecified subjects) to go this year & 200 professional staff posts in the next 2 years. Closure of Southend campus will be a blow regionally as well. The vision and ambition that saw Essex et al established is sorely needed now.

Like in a lot of other places, we're striking to protect jobs here at Sheffield. Management have failed to negotiate with us in good faith, deliberately allowed this to escalate, and now want to lock us out of work for refusing to replace teaching that has been lost. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Call for Papers: Beyond the Box: Re-Thinking Global Histories of Contemporary #Shipping I'm hosting a workshop with my colleague Betty Banks in Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2026 More details here - networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Call for Papers: Beyond the Box: Re-Thinking Global Histories of Contemporary #Shipping I'm hosting a workshop with my colleague Betty Banks in Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2026 More details here - networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

“Those of us who lived through the tail end of Moi’s regime have developed a way of speaking politics in code and rumor, hiding the sharpest tips of our pens in fiction, comedy, and music.” #Kenya hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

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....

Can anyone point me towards any literature in the Humanities that makes the case for the continued importance of print publications in the era of digital publishing and Open Access?

The fire in this! africasacountry.com/2025/04/keny...

How did Tanzanian socialist ideas shape the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s? Yasmina Martin connects two traditions of African liberation through the ANC's projects of 'self-reliance' in exile. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Vale Ahmed Rajab, journalist nonpareil pambazuka.org/Ahmed-Rajab-...

Face à la situation budgétaire dramatique de nos Universités, qui met en péril nos missions de service public, nos métiers, et l’avenir de nos étudiants, l’Ecole de science politique de la Sorbonne se déclare en chômage technique et appelle ses collègues et étudiant-es à faire de même ❤️‍🔥

My new article ‘Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

We're happy to announce we've posted our next blog - authored by Project Post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social - a spotlight from our archival research on Trade Unions, Labour Rights and Tanzania: medium.com/@glosoc/docu...

** Lusotopie 2025 ** Superb special issue on the #Portuguese #Revolution, edited by Michel Cahen & @yleonard.bsky.social with articles on PREC, #Timor, #Angola, #memory, newspapers, etc. AfroLuso Free online here: journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7912

I've got a new article out in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social It's about the 'paper famine' of the 1970s, the causes and consequences of newsprint shortages in the developing world, and how we can think about print media as material infrastructure There's a graph, too www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project. Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories Dates: October 20-21, 2025 Location: Maastricht University Abstracts due: April 4, 2025 managingscarcity.com/waeh/

I've got a new article out in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social It's about the 'paper famine' of the 1970s, the causes and consequences of newsprint shortages in the developing world, and how we can think about print media as material infrastructure There's a graph, too www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa is recruiting postdocs in history. This is my old department and I spent three happy years working there.