We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

A journey time still possible if you're travelling by East Midlands Rail.

This is today for people in London. Come here me talk about the politics of immigration officers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tickets free and only a few remaining...

This kid was also rocking the flag of Rhodesia on his bedroom wall.

If it's any further incentive the title of my talk is: 'Meet the Institutional Racists: Immigration Officers and Powellite Solidarity, 1968-1976'.

Last day for 25% discount on paperback pre-order tomorrow www.waterstones.com/book/the-tru...

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

this would be a dream PhD for one lucky individual...

Questions I found myself asking while reading this piece this morning. Also don't know how places like this escape toward hope; practitioners of the politics of ethno-cultural resentment ('We are poor because the blacks are here', as Stuart Hall put it) aren't just wayward potential socialists.

Might start using this post in my email signature.

Can’t help but see this as a direct consequence of marketisation; higher education is ‘sold’ as an expensive ‘product’, the cost (and associated debt) of which is largely borne by the student, which encourages in students a really hollow, joyless, and transactional attitude towards learning.

We're hiring at Birkbeck! Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics, full-time and open-ended. Closing date March 18th. Details here: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Next week, I'm speaking at The Mix in Bethnal Green as part of an event on the history of the inner workings of the Home Office. I'll be speaking about the letter signed by 38 immigration officers at London Heathrow airport in support of Enoch Powell in the wake of his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech.

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

Join us on 19 Feb as we explore the archives and examine the Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain. Hear Leila Hassan Howe (Race Today), Nigel De Noronha (CoDE) and Sophia Siddiqui (Institute of Race Relations) with GPI's Sarah Garrod. Chair Arielle Lawson. Free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-w...

Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social ‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front doi.org/10.1017/S174...

I remember colleagues calling for the UCU to defend David Miller when he first got in trouble for this sort of shit. All gone quiet now.

Leonard Barnes, anticolonial journalist: 'British rule in India & Africa is a form of Fascism just as barbarous as German or Italian. For Britons, therefore, the enemy is not merely the ambition of a Mussolini or a Hitler, but also the general structure & functioning of the British Empire itself.'

In June 1937 Nancy Cunard, on behalf of various left-wing thinkers, asked 'writers and poets' to state where they stood on the Spanish Civil War. Although the focus was on Spain, the question was framed in terms of anti-fascist internationalism and commitment: 'ironic detachment will no longer do'.

#Skystorians #History Double article drop! Both from forthcoming special issue on Churchill. First up, Luvuyo Wotshela's 'Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899-1955', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

On advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973" by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Came across this going back over some early 70s issues of the National Front’s magazine while doing research for my book. Nothing new in Reform’s fixation on universities…

Every TV betting advert: CAREFUL, GAMBLING CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE.................DO IT THOUGH

This is fucking clown shit in a country with such a begrudging approach to the provision of parental leave and free childcare - things Reform has no plans to address. If you want people to have more children make it cheaper, give them more time off work, and more support.

Emma Sandon (Birkbeck), 'Spaces of Empire: Histories and Afterlives of Film Collections in British Colonial Archives', 10 February 5:30 pm GMT, at the IHR, London and on Zoom. Free, friendly and open to the public. Please register by the link below. #Skystorians.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'. A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below, please share.

I’m in a newly published collection on political writing in modern Britain published by CUP. I met and got the opportunity to work with some lovely people in the preparation of this collection. I hope it’s as much fun to read as it was to put together.

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

I did my PhD at Sheffield working fairly closely with the Special Collections staff (who are brilliant). An excellent funded opportunity here...

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

One of my favourite people I’ve learned about since I started teaching Black British history full-time.

That settles it then; the sentence for kicking a vehicle is summary execution without trial.

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

Feels like capitalism‘s latest trap card - like Skynet meets the spinning Jenny.

Just over a week or so left to submit your abstracts. It’s shaping up to be an excellent conference from the papers already submitted, as well as with confirmed keynote speakers Prof. David Featherstone and Dr. @kasperbrasken.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and networks! #GeneralStrike100

🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨 We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉 More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6 @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social

The field of British “far-right and fascism” studies, which straddles political science, history & sociology, has yet to grapple with Goodwin. He began writing about the BNP & has ended up standing for a party filling the same political space. His earlier work shows traces of this later trajectory.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

"the advent of fascism is not a single event—a sudden coup d’etat—but rather a protracted social process...The fascist thrust must be resisted in its incipient stages by the broadest possible coalition, before it has an opportunity to consolidate its power" Angela Davis, 1971

Another harrowing photo for future history books.

Abolish the Home Office

Amazing 40% off sale by @manchesterup.bsky.social means that paperback editions of our essay collection British Culture After Empire are just £15! A veritable bargain! @liamliburd.bsky.social

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Together with @rshc.bsky.social QMCBS's Rob Waters is involved in a great event on 24 Feb at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green on the history of the Home Office and border control, featuring @liamliburd.bsky.social, @juanitacox.bsky.social and Bobby Phe Amis