It’s cat 🐈‍⬛ adoption day! This 4-yr-old part-Persian beauty, currently called Mittens, will be coming home with me later today, her owner having been hospitalised with advancing Alzheimer’s. #cats Mitzi (trial name, or Mimi?) will fill the void left by the elderly rescue I’d adopted back in January…

Some #photography and feline humour before a day of more teaching updates. 📸📷🐈🐈‍⬛ (h/t @sarahmay1.bsky.social for reposting this - the best possible use of Muybridge!)

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As thousands gathered in London for right-wing demonstrations on Saturday, as well as the growing number of adhoc St Georges flags across the UK, we look to our archive for important context. See our (Anti)Fascism tag, as well as Kieran Connell's piece earlier this year:

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

Hazelnut harvest in the Alta Langhe, Piedmont - spent Sunday morning shelling and toasting these beauties. 🇮🇹🌰

As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾

Excited to announce our first session of the Global Africa Transcontinental Seminar series! 📚 When: Oct 2, 8–9:30 am (PST) Where: Zoom Registration: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Sponsors: UW African Studies Program, UCAD Department of History, and SciencesPo African Program

The ingenious operas of Wael Shawky – which he writes, scores, designs and directs – play with our ideas about history, writes Hettie Judah

Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️‍🌈 Oral History Project I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home. If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:   📧 [email protected] 📞 +447902489831

Baby basil 🌿 bouquet 🇮🇹 - fresh from Liguria this morning and destined for my pre-PhD supervision lunch. 🥗

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I've written a piece about the bomber's view of the past: how aerial archaeologists of the Middle East have looked at the region's past through the eyes (and lenses) of people who bomb it in the present. In fact they're sometimes the same people. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Genuinely excited to participate in this panel on "Picturing Health: The Evolution of Medical Photography",with a strong focus on ethics, at The Francis Crick Institute as part of the Wellcome Photography Prize public programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picturing-...

OTD in 1974, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau's independence from Portugal, was officially recognised, having been declared in 1973. In this article from our archive, Afonso Dias Ramos explores contemporary debates around discussing Portugal's colonial history.

Just a reminder that this FREE workshop is next week. Hope to see you there!

What are the relationships between local communities and major heritage sites in Syria, and why do they matter? Adnan Almohamad and I attempt to begin to answer -- out now, open access. www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...

Am particularly happy about this *11 October* Bham Lit Festival event featuring our new #ColonialCountryside project book (pub. by @peepaltreepress.bsky.social). It's the outcome of our work with the National Trust on its country houses' connections to empire ticketsource.co.uk/bhamlitfest/...

"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Turns out the upstairs neighbour has adopted a little black cat, una femmina, who looks very curious about my balcony typing. #Torino #Turin 🐈‍⬛

Just a reminder that in the midst of waves of anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-asylum-seeker rhetoric and activism, there are also many charities working quietly, stoically and hard to fuel a better conversation and a better future. Actively supporting them makes a difference.

Rolling towards the weekend by replying to prospective PhD students, with well-developed proposals, that there is almost certainly no funding available in the UK for their topics next year. 🗃️🏺📜 #HigherEd

Apart from the BBC & Independent media coverage of our Rural Racsm report findings has been predictably abysmal, attempting to dismiss & discredit it rather than to engage with its serious, robust findings. You can read our reports here: le.ac.uk/hate-studies...

Now that’s a management job I’d take on in a heartbeat.

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

All eyes on her! Dismantling 'Egypt' in UK museums artuk.org/discover/sto...

So many new expressions for boiler parts at the service appointment today! Emozionante. Un riassunto: If boiler survives winter, interior can be refurb’d this time next year. Mark your calendars (and your bank account). Grazie, Centro Servizio Clima! They really are lovely folk. 🇮🇹❤️ #Torino #Turin

Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.

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Fantastic recognition for the work of @zenakamash.bsky.social - congratulations, Zena!

If you're in London this Thursday, Sept 4th, don't miss this evening at the Horniman Museum, a tie-in with the 'All Eyes on Her!' exhibition curated by Heba Abd el-Gawad. Artists, DJs, food, films, women-led marketplace, dabka classes and other workshops - celebrating the Middle East/SWANA. 📜🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇶🇲🇦

I have three degrees, have written several books, and have been entrusted with both valuable artworks and young minds over my career. But nothing makes me feel more competent and proud than booking the annual boiler service over the telephone - in Italian. 💪🇮🇹

I've written a short post www.beatrizpichel.com/news/why-med... to mark the official start of my @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Fellowship! Over the next year I'll be writing my second monograph, Medical Photography in Nineteenth-Century France. To say I'm excited is an understatement! #photohist

One of the more striking stories from my new book #Heiresses - out on Thursday, available now is that of Jane #Austen's aunt, an heiress from #Barbados. Read my new blog post to find out more... www.mirandakaufmann.com/blog/jane-au...

3 project reports now available for our Leverhulme-funded Rural Racism project. A film below reflecs just 3 of our 135 in-depth interviews. These supplement statistics, gaining insights into the human experience of racism in the countryside, where only 4% of the population is from a minoritised gp

The neighbours left me grapes 🍇 from their home in the Langhe and a note to welcome me back - after too long away from #Torino #Turin (and far too long waiting fruitlessly for a coach at Malpensa airport…). 🇮🇹

OTD in early British television The day before closedown, Thursday 31 August, saw the publication of a Listener column by Grace Wyndham Goldie responding in part to a broadcast by Paul Robeson. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

On Monday, we report our findings on this major study of how racism is experienced in the countryside. Contact me for more info. le.ac.uk/hate-studies/r…

I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.

"While it may not be possible for a national archive in a settler colonial state to truly decolonize; an archive can look to Indigenous communities to lead the way in creating new ways to engage with the effects of colonization." Read about Project Naming's approach to reclaiming Inuit history.

From the Museu Nacional do Azulejos in #Lisbon #Lisboa, a cat looking rather awkward with its little mouse friend. Possibly drawn before Portugal had cats. 🐈 (Joking! And yes, it’s a national museum dedicated to tiles.)

And for the exhibit’s use of photographs, curated by Du Bois to show African-American communities and accomplishments, see Shawn Michelle Smith’s excellent @dukepress.bsky.social book. 🗃️📸📷

Complain. By all means, vent on social media, but that won't change anything. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp... I appreciate that raising one complaint might not change anything either (I have enough experience to know), but hundreds or thousands of complaints will. Please do it.

Exciting news: My book Photography and Making Bedouin Histories is now available in paperback! www.routledge.com/Photography-... #anthropology #oxford_anthro #photohist #arthistory #history #visualculture #routledgebooks

In my new book #Heiresses, I highlight the lives of the people these women enslaved, because we can’t truly understand their significance without considering the human cost of their actions. One woman’s story was so striking that I decided to start Chapter One with her. Meet Betsy Newton..

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The Call for Papers for this year’s ‪@ehswomcom.bsky.social‬ Workshop: Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, and Enterprise. Send in your proposals before the 5th of September, and don’t forget to share the CfP. More information can be found in the QR or at: ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

Summer rerun time: Elizabeth Frood, John Taylor and I say very sensible things about Tutankhamun. I think I startled Lord Bragg at one point, but we survived. 🏺🗃️ Also nice timing in that I #amwriting today what I hope will be my last ever article on this theme…

We're hosting a FREE workshop @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social this September on the topic of 'Form'. Join artists, makers and researchers in a series of public conversations about what 'Form' means in their practice. Full programme here 👇 No need to book! prm.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...