🛂 Millions are denied short-stay visas to Europe every year. In 2024 alone, rejected applicants lost €145M in fees – 90% from Africa & Asia. On 13 Sept, exhibition by LAGO Collective & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will explore visa inequality through data, sound and design ⬇️

📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Our colleague Prof. Peter Marshall passed away last month. He became an assistant lecturer in our department in 1959 and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1980. In 2009, we celebrated his 50th consecutive year of lecturing @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

We have a wonderful new blog post written by our MA History intern all about Imperial Scholarship and the East. During his time with us, Kamal looked at letters and minutes in our College Archive relating to Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, a Victorian orientalist and polyglot. 🧵 #Victorian #Empire

Our colleague Dr Sundeep Lidher was invited to speak at today's #FestivalofEducation! In a session on 'teacher professionalism' Sundeep shared findings from her recent ESRC-funded work on the role of teacher education in supporting engagement with British histories of migration & empire in schools

New article by @abdulwando.bsky.social, one of our former #PhD students

We are advertising for a one-year lectureship in Early American History my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

We are advertising for a one-year lectureship in the History of Political Thought my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

Such a pleasure to have colleagues from Tsinghua University and King’s College London come together in Beijing for our first Tsinghua-KCL China Forum. Huge thanks to everyone who joined, contributed, and helped make the sessions happen!

I've written for the Guardian on Labour's nostalgia for the warfare state. @kingshistory.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last night, our colleague Simon Sleight @slowhistorian.bsky.social was on #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre with Will Young! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

It's been a wonderful first term at @kingshistory.bsky.social teaching the histories of science, the environment and the senses to a hugely engaged bunch of students! Managed to get some field-trip sensory walking action in which went down a treat: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/sensory...

🇩🇪 What caused the fall of the Berlin wall? Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social asks whether it all began with a small slip up during a routine press conference in the 'No One Saw It Coming' podcast with @marcfennell.bsky.social. 🎧 Listen here ⤵️ @kingsdllc.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social

It was a great privilege to attend Jinty Nelson's memorial event this afternoon, organised by @kingshistory.bsky.social. Speakers reflected on Jinty as a teacher, researcher, mentor, collaborator, friend, colleague, and defender and promoter of the historical discipline and profession 1/2

🎉 The Global Cultures Institute is delighted to announce two Fellows for 2025-26 – Dr @saramarzagora.bsky.social (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) and Dr @rezaziaebrahimi.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social). 🔗 Find out more about their research ⤵️ buff.ly/41Fv2Ie

Amazing work by our colleague David Carpenter #MagnaCarta www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy to share that we’re hosting the 1st Tsinghua–King’s China Forum in Beijing on 26 May! @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @lauchinainstitute.bsky.social We do hope this forum will help further strengthen the ties between our two institutions!

By our colleague @davidedgerton.bsky.social

The Fellowships are named for the historian Jinty Nelson (1942-2024) who was President @royalhistsoc.org between 2000 and 2004, and an inspirational teacher @kingshistory.bsky.social. An memorial event to remember Jinty's contribution will be held at King's London on 20 May bit.ly/42IX6Xa

Sending this book tour off in style at @kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social. There will be (non-alcoholic) drinks, there will be nibbles, there will be friendly conversation and questions aplenty... do come along!

With a fortnight to go to 80th anniversary of VE Day reupping this analysis of how the UK came to think of the Second World War in profoundly national ways @kingshistory.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

Institutions and Communities in the Modern British World since c.1700: A Symposium in Honour of Arthur Burns @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Council Room 10–11 April 2025

On 20 May, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting an afternoon commemoration of the life, work and legacy of Professor Dame Jinty Nelson FBA. Booking for this event is now available bit.ly/4cwX1ZW. Jinty was the first female President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-04) #skystorians 1/2

👂 As part of the core undergraduate module, HSSA (Historical Skills, Sources and Approaches) undergraduate History students complete a walk, recording their sensory experiences at a series of historical sites in London.

Really looking forward to seeing our Valencia colleagues next week! @kingshistory.bsky.social www.uv.es/uvweb/instit...

Meet our #PhD students: @marie-trcht.bsky.social currently studies 13th century manuscript production at Burton Abbey, and argues that the case of Burton may help redefine the way historians understand the boundaries between medieval administrative and narrative texts. #medievalhistory

Congrats to Berry Pillot de Chenecy who was awarded the 2024 Batman Prize for her undergraduate dissertation 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children's Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool' under the supervision of @slowhistorian.bsky.social

Attention: @kingshistory.bsky.social students. Please complete the History department’s pioneering survey to understand how you are currently using #AI. forms.office.com/e/tqkDUiTdfy @kingsartshums.bsky.social

On 10 & 11 April, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting a symposium in honour of the historian Arthur Burns (1963-2023). It pays tribute to Arthur with a theme which runs throughout his own research: institutions and communities in modern Britain. Programme and booking: bit.ly/4bOC8cc #Skystorians

Meet our #Phd students: Chibueze Pipi calculates resource extraction in colonial #Nigeria, 1900-1960 #HistoryAtKings #BritishEmpire #EconomicHistory #ColonialHistory #AfricanHistory

Our colleague Alice Taylor will be giving a public lecture 'Pretence, Dissimulation and Political Authority in Twelfth-Century Europe' at the @kent.ac.uk Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS Anselm Lecture) on Thursday 20 Mar, 18:00-19:30 (also online) www.kent.ac.uk/events/event...

New book chapter by our colleague Joan Redmond. Joan’s chapter explores themes of gender, especially masculinity, among Protestants who settled in Ireland during the seventeenth-century plantations, and the violence against them during the 1641 Irish Rebellion. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2023/t...

Meet our #Phd students: @ttbroyd.bsky.social studies the identity of descendants of #Algerian #immigration in #France. She explores their national ambivalence and their patterns of individual and collective ethnicities. This photo is from Lallab, an organisation that supports Muslim women in France.

Well done to our colleague @historysunny.bsky.social for receiving the @royalhistsoc.org Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowship 2024-2025 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-sund...

Meet our PhD students: Aleksa Benjamin Andrejević currently studies how the Mediterranean Sea influenced the British imperial imagination between the fall of the Thirteen Colonies and the rise of the Victorian era, 1760-1848' #BritishEmpire #Kings #History #PhD #Empire

Well done to Anna Braun for turning her dissertation into a journal article! 'Beyond Victimisation: A Study of the Narratives on Northern Nigerian #Women in the Context of #BokoHaram' #Nigeria #History #Borno #Plurality journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/pl...

🔨 Why does Germany's far right hate #Bauhaus? Ahead of the German #elections, Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social interrogates how opinions on Bauhaus have reignited a historical culture war over German national identity and social anxieties. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/comment...

📜 King's Past is a new online platform charting the #history of the #University through 13 pivotal moments and a database connecting people, places, events and donations. The aim is to keep growing the project with more information as King's approaches its #bicentenary in 2029 ⬇️

💭 Join Professor Max Edling and @kingshistory.bsky.social in this workshop discussing Britain's response to the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.

⏰ Don't forget to apply for this year's History of Science and Technology scholarships. @kingshistory.bsky.social provides full tuition fees and a maintenance grant. Find out more here ⬇️

Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

A talk in London on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY ( @ucpress.bsky.social) on Mon April 28! I'll be in convo with Hannah Dawson @kingshistory.bsky.social UK pub: March 4. Preorder now! 💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #artsky #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/book-...

When African #Historiography Turns Up At Your Doorstep: a talk by Olutayo Adesina (University of #Ibadan, #Nigeria) on 6 February at 5pm in the open space of the History Department www.kcl.ac.uk/events/when-... #AfricanHistory #Nigeria

A new edited book by our colleague @chrismanias.bsky.social 'Palaeontology in Public' with @uclpress.bsky.social #openaccess uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...