Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...

today is the National Day for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. I created this mini guide as a resource to increase awareness, share education, and provide links to resources to get involved. #MMIW #MMIR #NoMoreStolenRelatives

I won't be at UCU NEC on Friday unless @drjogrady.bsky.social and UCU's SMT resolve the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a principle of trade unionism as is accountability to members. Sad but proud to contribute to and sign this statement reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

It’s on! BCU @ucu.org.uk members take strike action this Thursday 1st May. Pickets: - Seacole: 8:30 - 10 - Benjamin Zephaniah: 8:30 - 10:30 - Curzon, Parkside & Millenium Point: 8:30 - 12 Rally for jobs and professional respect: 12-1 in front of Parkside Building Teachout 2-3.30 Woodman

It's #LesbianVisibilityWeek. The Supreme Court doesn't get to define who I am, what I can do with my body or who I can love. Lesbianism is liberation & there is no liberation without trans women. British courts ≠ justice. Trans women are women, trans lesbians are lesbians. #UppaQueers #LVW25

Our Trinity Term card is now complete, and we are so excited to share it with you all. You can find full details of the events on Ox Talks: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

The @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social 10th postgrad conference wrapped today and it was everything. We enjoyed the most powerful keynote conversation, and got to hear incredible PG research from a range of disciplines, with delegates from all over the world. I love it here.

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Coming up! Our event with pioneering Black British actress, theatre director and drama lecturer Anni Domingo in conversation with Joy Francis, co-founder of Words of Colour. 16 April, South London, £5 tickets here: bit.ly/3QXn2rm

Vanished has well and truly vanished from my to-do list as I’ve handed back my proofs. More on launch events in soon, but more info and preorder links here for now. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...

The cuts to 632 posts announced by university executives hide behind the numbers. Every post is a person, a valued colleague. We share their stories, as part of our grassroots We are the 632 campaign #WeAreThe632 #SaveDundeeUni Up first is Anya who talks about how this will affect Dundee. 1/2

Solidarity with all striking workers. As #UCU Edu Committee Chair I'd chair Cradle to Grave (flagship education policy conference) on 29 March. It's sadly been cancelled by HQ citing @uniteucu.bsky.social strike in preceding days. The dispute must be resolved Please sign: tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

On the 7th March, we hosted our first ‘Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination’ conference! It was a nourishing, reflective & inspiring day & we want to thank everyone for their support 💓 It wasn’t easy, but we made it a reality. We hope to be back in 2026 … @torchoxford.bsky.social

Just been to the launch of this very detailed account of how the Drax family made their fortune through slavery in Barbados, by @Paullashmar. Brexiteer, landowner in Barbados & Dorset & (ironically) anti-migrant former Tory MP, Richard Drax still refuses to apologise or make any form of reparation.

A Guide to Action ✍️ www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...

Or alternatively, embattled universities are one of the few bastions resisting the resurgence of fascism?

12 books to help you create a just and sustainable future yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/12-b... It’s my book - DARK LABORATORY

Had my first meeting about PhDs starting in 2026 so I am (again) flagging the free resources on my website, targeted at PhDs in the Arts and Humanities in the UK. This includes an info sheet about applying for PhDs and a PhD proposal template. hannahmarierobbins.com/blog/resourc...

My reflections on the importance of queer history, published this week in The Big Issue, have become even more relevant since I submitted the piece just a couple weeks ago. Read it here: www.bigissue.com/opinion/lgbt...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference | 6 – 7 June 2025 | University College London Legacies of Section 28: a two-day event exploring the history and legacy of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 1988. DEADLINE EXTENDED to the end of February royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...

#BLOGPOST: A current member of YHP shares their thoughts on the lack of Black British History in the UK National Curriculum, and how YHP plays a role in addressing this epidemic prevalent in the UK education system. #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿 www.younghistoriansproject.org/single-post/...

PR👀FS! She’s definitely no longer a word doc! (uk & us pre-order below, you don’t pay until the book is published in May so did you even truly buy it? Exactly) 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W... #blackbooksky #booksky #skystorians

The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist is OUT! 🏆 Congratulations to this year's longlisted authors. Explore this extraordinary list and support independent bookshops: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-20... @womensprize.bsky.social

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My wonderful friend Tionne Alliyah Parris has just published a new article on Shirley Graham Du Bois & her use of connectivity as a Black liberatory praxis - pls read and share amongst your networks 🤝🏽 www.miamisocialsciences.org/home/ew1ns9g...

My book has a cover and she’s just beautiful Published 8 May in the UK and 3 June in the US 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W...

My colleague Kesewa John has organised a screening of the Dominican film 'Sugar Island' at Goldsmiths next Tuesday (4 Feb) evening, followed by a special Q&A with its director Johanne Gomez Terrero. Attendance is free, but you need to register. All welcome. #filmsky #skystorians🗃️ #polisky

This is today! Currently waiting to board my flight to Belfast, my first time in the city since January 2020.

Tickets for our 2025 Conference are now live: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-... With this, we are excited to announce our amazing keynote speakers, who will be speaking on a panel on radical future-proofing archival praxis ✨

It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.

Finally watching Junior Bake Off and it’s genuinely healing something in me. These kids have such a strong grasp on their emotions, as well as being so ambitious, and unabashed. I’m so proud of them all 😭

Tickets available now my Rebel Sounds talk @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street. I’ll be talking about the history of protest song as political instrument, from 1970s Nigeria, to contemporary Ukraine... all the while playing some cracking tunes. www.waterstones.com/events/rebel...

Hilary Term will also see the return of our Writing & Meditation workshops! Open to the entire community, these sessions work as a focused writing space to get those words down! 🙌🏽

Our Hilary Term Card is now live 🙌🏽 The first 3 weeks of term will be dedicated to conversations around the Rhodes Must Fall movement, as it enters its 3rd year ✊🏽 We also have an exciting line-up for the theme ‘Music as Method’ 🎶🎤 Finally, we will close the term with our 2025 Conference ✨

I missed my chance to exclaim Goodness Gracious Me! Meanwhile, a lovely person sent me a gift link. So please do share. on.ft.com/3Wfhmf8

We’ve had some amazing abstracts so far! Keep sending them in 🙌🏽🙌🏽 This has the potential to be the best conference for radical race scholarship of 2025 👀👀

Deadline for our 2025 Conference call for papers is on MONDAY at 12pm, noon. Thank you to everyone who has submitted an abstract so far! ⭐️ Colleagues, friends, comrades, please share far and wide 🙌🏽

📢CFP Deadline! The deadline for our conference with #HistoryLab+ and History UK, 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis', is next week! Abstracts of 200 words are due on Friday 17th January. For more information on the conference, please see the link below... ihrhistorylab.wordpress.com/teaching-in-...

In 2025, I’d like to invite people to purposefully read more dense and/or complex prose. There is nothing wrong with reading slow or reading something multiple times. There’s no shame in looking up the definition of words or writing out plot events to analyze their importance.

Reminder: the deadline for the final round of the Study Abroad Studentship scheme is next Tuesday, 7 January 2025, 4pm.

I read some amazing books in 2024! Out of 58 books, I rated 13 of them 5 stars 🌟 Here’s to more brilliant reads in 2025!!

I’ve just withdrawn from my panel at the OLF. Joyce is an absolutely chilling character: on record as saying that ‘every one of those [trans] people is a huge problem to a sane world'

Shame on you Oxford Literary Festival

The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Great to see our series ‘#Defiance: Fighting the Far Right’ nominated in Best Documentary Series category at @Broadcastnow Awards 2025! Congrats to all the other nominees. And thanks, as ever, to the people who trusted us to help tell their stories.

Now the agreement’s been signed, I’m really excited to announce I’m (officially) writing my first monograph, ‘Progressive Politics, Popular Culture, and Public Memory in Contemporary Britain’, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. #skystorians 🗃️ #polisky

When the colonised speak they instantly transform from victims to threats to the coloniser. Most of all for the ‘liberal’ coloniser who moral foundation is built on ‘caring’ about victims AND whose political raison d’etre is to serve as controlled opposition for the Empire 1/3

In 2025, can we all agree to stand up and stop accepting the weaponised incompetence of our male colleagues? No accountability, no self awareness, I’m over it

Your #BlueSky update: the other site was not missed for even one second again today.