Announcing the RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship 2026-2027 – a result of our continued collaboration with @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and Uni of Edinburgh. Applications close on 24 April 2026: stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie... Learn more at the pre-application workshop, 15 Dec, 1pm.

It’s going to be fabulous. Come and join us for the celebrations, and thoughtful conversations.

Adopt far-right policies to stop the far right gaining influence - continues to be the stupidest idea in European politics today. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

“Wages for housework was a means, and its end was the destruction of capitalism.” 💪💪💪

Dr Ben Carrington delivers the inaugural ASA Culture Section Stuart Hall Award Lecture: “‘The university is a critical institution, or it is nothing’ - Stuart Hall, The Elephants’ Graveyard and the Sociology of Race.” 📅 Wed 10 Dec 🕕 10am (Pacific) / 6pm (UK) Register: emory.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today observer.co.uk/culture/book...

#OtD 9 Dec 1947 the Rawagede massacre was carried out by Dutch colonial troops in Indonesia, who executed 431 people: nearly every male aged over 15 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari). None of the killers were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088...

How has London changed in the last 100 years? In 'Songs of Seven Dials' historian @tricksterprince.bsky.social tells the story of a part of London that was the site for contests over urban development, race & the future of the city on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/songs-of-sev...

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Haringey Community Cinema is delighted to announce its end of year party on Saturday 13 December at The Post Bar in Tottenham haringeycommunitycinema.uk/2025/12/03/h...

Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...

A fascinating read about terminology in the archives and why it's so important to address, from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.thelondonarchives.org/revisiting-t...

📣 Happening Tomorrow! Join the forum on ASEAN’s Failure on Women, Youth, Peace & Security in #Myanmar — featuring voices from across Myanmar calling for justice & accountability. 🗓 16 Oct | ⏰ 9AM (Malaysia) / 7:30AM (Myanmar) Register🔗 bit.ly/3L4n40D 👉 More info: shorturl.at/9fjVd

Just go in and shake the manager's hand firmly! Jokes aside, we have thousands of hours of video archives stored here and digitised for you to view online. Including this charming film about the Thamesmead estate! www.youtube.com/@TheLondonAr... #Meme #Housing #LondonHistory #Archives

A local north london charity called Akwaaba is raising money for a creative art space for refugees, unhoused ppl, and the wider community. Even small donations will make a big difference! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #UKKidlit

“Cease” fire www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

Saw this when I was in Bradford earlier this year - fascinating if forgotten slice of the city's history www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Haringey Community Cinema & Haringey Migrant Support Centre present: Night of the Kings Date: 23 Oct • 19:30 Location: 280 St Ann's Road, London, N15 5BN www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hcc-hmsc-p...

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

An excellent example of British entitlement and hypocrisy. Europe closing its borders and clamping down on migrants abusing the system isn’t allowed to include Brits.

When you agree more with an old Tory than 90% of the Labour Party 🤦🏽‍♀️

It’s revealing how thrown the interviewer is by an answer that is evidently an honest expression of genuinely held political principles, as opposed to the sound bites and weasel words that dominate political interviews in the present.

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024. Read more on our site here: museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them. And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

🚨 New research published today 'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families. Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

no words

Let a whole population of people trapped out of work start rebuilding their lives, and get vital work done at the same time? Letting people seeking asylum work just makes sense. #LiftTheBan

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

Private companies incentivised to put asylum seekers in hotels rather than bedsits as they could earn EIGHT TIMES as much profit, says @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social Hotel owners and private companies benefiting despite allegations of terrible conditions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Most of my experiences travelling outside cities in the UK involve not seeing another brown face, so I guess we're quits, Jenrick (and I have just come back from Carlisle where I saw more St George's cross and Union Jack flags than brown people)

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

In Málaga now #freePalestine #librepalestina

🔴Miles de personas desbordan la Plaza de la Provincia en Madrid y arrancan en manifestación hacia el Congreso en apoyo a la Flotilla Global Sumud, asaltada por Israel. Fotos de Manu del Valle. www.elsaltodiario.com/palestina/ba...

Anti-genocide, Pro-Palestine encampment in plaça de las Carboneras, Barcelona (Catalonia / Spain), just announced.

Big anti-genocide protest ongoing in Madrid, right now.

Horrified by the deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur 💔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At least 15 killed in Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-15-killed-gaza-dawn

📚TOMORROW📚 Bookmarks Bookshop presents a conversation with Paul Hampton, author of Culpable - A gripping exposé of the Grenfell Tower disaster @fbunational.bsky.social 🗓️Fri, Sept 26 ⏰6:30 pm 📍Bookmarks Bookshop www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/authorsboo...

A big Thank You to Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, @tilley101.bsky.social, and Samia Khatun from @soaspolitics.bsky.social, @soasdevelopment.bsky.social and @soashistory.bsky.social for putting this fantastic programme together. For more info go to www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events

Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law. All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.

We DID get a Banksy! It depicts a judge swinging to hit a protestor with a blank sign with his gavel, symbolising the state brutality unleashed on protestors following the proscription of Palestine Action. Sign up for action in October: wedonotcomply.org

Great one #Banksy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, it's also groundhog day to wheel in a shameless brown Muslim Home Sec to head up these operations for the optics

What a vile twisting of the truth about Labour's complicity in genocide and subservience to Israel's propaganda machine from Shabana Mahmood MP 1/2