Don't miss the CSI lunchtime seminar this Thursday, 1-2pm: @emmakluge.bsky.social will look at anticolonial & environmental campaigns in Oceania. All welcome, no need to book - in person in Birkbeck Central Building room room 407 (or message me if you want to join online) @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

My reaction to the Government's White Paper on Post-16 Education and Skills. As it pertains to universities, it's a total botch that somehow manages to both raise fees and hack everybody off. The worst of all worlds, a bit like the rest of Labour's offer. Do have a read if you're interested. 👇

Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link) Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...

Our 3rd Rethinking Internationalism conference, online, will be on "Blindspots and buzzwords in Internationalism" on 5 & 6 Nov. Lively discussion with an amazing line-up of researchers, do come along! All welcome, sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Save the date! Delighted that @emmakluge.bsky.social will give our first Centre for Internationalism lunchtime seminar on "Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific", 30 Oct, 1-2pm, Birkbeck Central Building rm407. Message for Teams link if you want to join online

This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Talked to @nature.com last week about scientific conferences in the past, present and future

This is today! Looking forward to discussing this splendid book with @dacretu.bsky.social and colleagues.

The Centre for Internationalism has new dates for your diaries! 1. Tuesday, 27 May, 6-8pm (Birkbeck Central Building, G08) Roundtable discussion of @dacretu.bsky.social's Foreign Aid & State Building in Interwar Romania - with the IHR's Rethinking Modern Europe series www.sup.org/books/histor...

Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

The Centre for Internationalism has new dates for your diaries! 1. Tuesday, 27 May, 6-8pm (Birkbeck Central Building, G08) Roundtable discussion of @dacretu.bsky.social's Foreign Aid & State Building in Interwar Romania - with the IHR's Rethinking Modern Europe series www.sup.org/books/histor...

The third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci

Take History Seriously! A recent article by our Sarah Marks and colleagues, has mapped aversion therapy practices used to ‘treat’ LGBTQ+ people in the past, and called on universities to take this history seriously in effort to address past and ongoing harms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Still time to send in your proposals! @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.

An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!

The last CSI seminar of the term will take place tomorrow (27 March), 1-2pm: come hear Prof Alex Colas talk about “Maritime Internationalism”. Everyone welcome, no need to book,

If you were getting major FOMO last week while we were conferencing in Newcastle, please be sure to submit an abstract for our upcoming VIRTUAL conference on ‘New Methods for New Histories’ of internationalism. Pls send to all your friends who want a captive audience for their weird archive story 😅

After last week’s Newcastle extravaganza we’re keen to think about *how* to write about internationalism(s) (& how not to), about the forgotten voices & sources & archives & readers. If you have been thinking about these questions do send us a short abstract by 5 May @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

For my last MA seminar in my history of migration course I've asked the students to bring in examples of uses & abuses of history in contemporary news coverage of migration. Does anyone have any particularly egregious examples we could look at?

One of the most stimulating events I can remember. Amazingly hosted, thankyou to all the organisers, esp Daniel, in action here, and statuesque,,

What a conference! Something that started in our minds as a ‘little workshop’ turned into this amazing, intense display of so many fantastic projects & ways of thinking about internationalism

A brilliant start to our AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms project, with generous and thoughtful contributions. Daniel Laqua did an amazing job with our first outing, and he, @drmargottudor.bsky.social , @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and I look forward to continuing these conversations. Stay tuned!

HUGE thanks to every single presenter/chair/attendee for making the past two days so inspiring and friendly. It was brilliant to catch up with old friends and to make so many new ones! More to come from our AHRC Rethinking Internationalism project so watch this space…

Our AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms’, hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, began this morning and we’ve already had fantastic panels on race, space, religious, and Mexican internationalisms. More to come after the coffee break! It’s a gorgeous day in Newcastle ☀️☀️☀️

Excellent conference on counter-hegemonic internationalisms at @northumbriauni.bsky.social thanks to the whole team on the AHRC curiosity project @riakapoor.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, and particularly Daniel Laqua for allowing me to attend w/out a paper! 🥳

#Skystorians #AcademicSky #History We’re delighted to be supporting the AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past’, which is taking place at @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week. Programme here research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!

We recently had the pleasure of @sandrinekott.bsky.social's company at Birkbeck - and now I'm thrilled that her new edited book is out in the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series, open access & free to download www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is available in paperback 🎉 Now under £30 with @cambridgeup.bsky.social and here’s a 20% discount code to make it more affordable. Will be doing a giveaway once my author copies arrive 😏

Really looking forward to this conversation with @sulinlewis.bsky.social, @jamesamark.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social & Leslie James about this excellent book. If anyone wants to join online, please let me know. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

The Birkbeck Centre for Internationalism seminars are back! Here are some dates for your diaries: 1. 30 January, 1-2pm: Lunchtime Seminar by @sandrinekott.bsky.social on "A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War" (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 210)

The Birkbeck Centre for Internationalism seminars are back! Here are some dates for your diaries: 1. 30 January, 1-2pm: Lunchtime Seminar by @sandrinekott.bsky.social on "A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War" (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 210)

Deadline for 1st Central European History Convention (CEH-C, Vienna, July 17-19) is Jan 31. No registration necessary, heavily subsidized housing, + more subsidies available for those who need it. Keynote: Tara Zahra; several panels dedicated to work of Pieter Judson Apply! ceh-c.univie.ac.at

Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

A story of parallel universes 1st email I wrote today: Hey, I’m so sorry I’m late with that article for the thing you’re editing. It’s been an awful term & got nothing done 2nd email I wrote today: Hey, I’m editing this thing & would love it if you could write an article. Really hope you’ll do it

🎓 There's a @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements on the League of Nations coming, by Joseph Maiolo (@joemaiolo.bsky.social) and Laura Robson www.cambridge.org/core/element...

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

Last week, REF released its final policy on Open Access for 2029's assessment exercise. This follows a summer consultation exercise. In this post we look at REF2029's requirements for Open Access: what's in, what's out, and what's coming up for the REF after next bit.ly/4gfuJ6Z #Skystorians 1/2

It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

Christmas bonus. Who says history doesn't pay?

In happier news about tractors blocking city roads, here is a 1947 photo of Farmall Tractors, just arrived from the Port of Gdynia as part of an UNRRA shipment, parked for the night in front of the remains of Warsaw's Central Station. [photo from UN Archives] #skystorians

Released today, final policy on Open Access for REF2029. Headlines, for History and others in Panel D: - no OA mandate for books for REF2029 - mandate for 'long form' publications for next REF, with effect no earlier than Jan 2029 - article embargoes cut from 24 to 12 months from 1 Jan 2026 1/2

Interesting thread on Google books & the ngrams viewer