I have uploaded to ResearchGate my chapter on the history of the British border control system from 1905 to the present. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Thank you for the recommendation, Google Scholar. Looks like a great paper! 😀

We are excited to announce that Volume 53 Issue 5 (2025) is now out! Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

Is there something about Joy Division/New Order or the films of Control or 24 Hour Party People in the zeitgeist? Because my very old blog post about this topic has been getting a lot of hits over the weekend. hatfulofhistory.com/2013/05/19/h...

For the Sunday crowd, my latest newsletter has dropped. Free to read and subscribe at the link below. andrewnette.substack.com/p/everything...

Just a reminder that our new book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, will be out in November through @manchesterup.bsky.social Ask your institutional library to pre-order a hardback copy now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Found a whole heap of digitised Danish and Swedish newspapers, so will be adding these soon!

My latest (50th!) weekly round-up of reading and listening recommendations, taking in colonialism and conflict in the Middle East, professional football, and the relationship between American film and politics. 🧵 #menasky #polisky #filmsky #skystorians🗃️ #envhist #litsky

Think once, think twice, think DO NOT PUT MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW INTO AI

A good bit of audio for @footballcliches.bsky.social

In the 1970s-80s, the Australian far right argued explicit neo-Nazism needed to be replaced with more general terms such as ‘nationalist’. Journalist Denis Freney wrote this pamphlet in 1984 which looked at how the far right attempted to make their ideas more palatable. archive.org/details/nazi...

Old Green Day is ‘39/Smooth’ and ‘Kerplunk’, not ‘Dookie’ and ‘Insomniac’.

Found a whole heap of digitised Danish and Swedish newspapers, so will be adding these soon!

Just a reminder that our new book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, will be out in November through @manchesterup.bsky.social Ask your institutional library to pre-order a hardback copy now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Niche, but no one yells 'MODRA!' and pretends to take a speccy by jumping up someone's back anymore

Think once, think twice, think DO NOT PUT MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW INTO AI

Peer reviewing manuscripts and now seeing that there is a box to check that the reviewer has not fed the manuscript into AI. This is a good step, but a sign that some reviewers are behaving very poorly.

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social Rebecca Kenneison's 'The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence', reviewed by Augustine Meaher @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣Out now on #firstview! Evan Smith (@evansmithhist.bsky.social) and Andrekos Varnava (@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social) on 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' 👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️

This week in 1977, students at Melbourne University protested lectures being presented by Hans Eysenck and Arthur Jensen, psychologists accused of promoting racism and eugenics. Disruptive protests followed at Sydney University, leading to debates about free speech at Australian universities.

Facebook reminds me that 2 years ago, I wrote this piece for @sslh.bsky.social on building my list of radical online collections. sslh.org.uk/2023/09/19/d...

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social Rebecca Kenneison's 'The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence', reviewed by Augustine Meaher @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is a brilliant article about how the Rik Mayall Nintendo ads came about. www.timeextension.com/features/how...

Here’s my discovery.

Four years ago, I asked historians about their most bizarre and profound archival finds and wrote this for The Conversation, which seemed to be a popular piece! theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...

Four years ago, I asked historians about their most bizarre and profound archival finds and wrote this for The Conversation, which seemed to be a popular piece! theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...

The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social (53/5) has now been published! www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

I wrote a book once on the history of debates over free speech, protest and academic freedom at universities, looking at how fascists used the language of free speech to promote themselves on campus and those who argued that fascists should be denied this platform. www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

In 1978, the youth wing of the Workers Revolutionary Party in the UK, the Young Socialists, received a resolution at their annual conference calling for the nationalisation of the music industry. splitsandfusions.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/w...

Just reupping this new article that me and @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social published last week

The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social (53/5) has now been published! www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

A good summary of how it’s going. Finished my PhD 9 years ago and am still stringing things together. As the first Anon says, what does ECR (or Mid-career) even mean anymore? That kind of career linearity depends on first vaulting over the fault line of secure/insecure - now a nearly impossible task

Who supported the far right in Australia and Britain in the 1930s? I wrote this post which provides an overview of the scholarship on class support for the British Union of Fascists and the New Guard. Did Anglophone fascism have cross-class appeal? hatfulofhistory.com/2025/09/06/c...

They can’t be writing nostalgia pieces about electroclash already. That was only like five years ago, right?

Want to hear more about some of the many alternative local newspapers (such as LOP) that sprang up around the UK in the 1970s and 1980s? If so, this online event might just be for you. Thanks to @feministcity.bsky.social, @wcmlibrary.bsky.social and @cperguom.bsky.social, among others.

Just reupping this new article that me and @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social published last week

I wrote a book once on the history of debates over free speech, protest and academic freedom at universities, looking at how fascists used the language of free speech to promote themselves on campus and those who argued that fascists should be denied this platform. www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

Another book to add to the reading list!

The past is a foreign country

wdym no transferable skills i can convert a word document to pdf

me when I’m a line of traffic cones in the middle of the road

I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's all coming together ... Completed manuscript sent off today. Wonderful, as always, working with Tracey Loughran on this and a host of brilliant contributors. #skystorians #earlymodern

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The HCSA is hosting its Annual Regional History Lecture and Forum in Renmark on 9 Oct. Featuring panels on history resources, opportunities and challenges, Dr. Craig Westell will also deliver a keynote lecture with RMMAC, on the deep history of the Riverland. Register here: buff.ly/L74AJjQ

Timeline cleanse with this cool pin that I bought yesterday and have now affixed to my backpack

Also looking for a reviewer of this book for @jich.bsky.social unsw.press/books/uprisi...

I want to read this book, but unsure of whether I can get a copy in Australia! www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/devil-m...

One story in this chapter is from 1967, when Australian neo-Nazi Eric Wenberg attacked in court the man who shot dead George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell’s killer was a former member of the National Socialist White People’s Party. Wenberg was eventually deported.