‘A report commissioned by Scottish Enterprise estimated that 2822 jobs depended on oil refining in Grangemouth. It’s hard to estimate the overall loss of economic activity, from food vans to specialised suppliers and administrative staff.’ @ewangibbs.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Reminder that I am open for business for all your research, writing, editing and copy-editing needs! Recent projects include creating a personal archive catalogue, and copy-editing English academic manuscripts for authors of other languages. Get in touch via website or DM! www.drvicclarke.co.uk

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

Thought-provoking approach to identity politics to be discussed at this exciting workshop: laoms.org/workshop-ide... The organisers welcome contributions from the perspective of the history of sexuality and gender. Deadline falling soon!

The many contributions of Peter Mandler, including as a former President @royalhistsoc.org, are celebrated in a new OA book 'Democratising History', published @uolpress.bsky.social. Peter's innovations as RHS President (2012-16) are reviewed by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social and Richard Fisher 1/2

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

so chuffed to see this out in the world! I have a piece on 'Race, Sexuality, and South Asian AIDS Activism in Britain, 1990–2000' muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Our @jhistsex.bsky.social special issue on transnational histories of European HIV/AIDS activism is now out! Some wonderful new research coedited by me and @npapadogian.bsky.social. Shout out to our brilliant contributors and journal editors! @camhistory.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

My book now has a cover! "Standardizing Sex" is the first book to trace the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia from the 1920s onwards. It explores the construction and negotiation of medical expertise among medical professionals, patients, and activists in press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

what a wonderful collection!

Delighted to be home to find this gorgeous bouquet from Penguin to mark the publication of Vanished. This week has featured bereaved and recovering beloveds, the blessings of Eid and a packed book launch featuring David Olusoga and myself in conversation. Bearing the bad, and grateful for the good.

This is an amazing scheme! I would love to see more historians applying, as well as anyone in the humanities more broadly. Best of luck if you apply.

Out now, special issue of journal, Polity, dedicated to-- Cedric Robinson & Racial Capitalism Including my own: "Class Evasion: Cedric J. Robinson on Postcolonial Studies," exploring Robinson's excoriating review of poco scholars Spivak & Bhabha: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/0/0

This is first and foremost a work of historical scholarship which intervenes in the historiography of the late C20th. But because I explore arguments for protectionism, and because I emphasise (geo)politics so strongly, I suggest the case has contemporary echoes. (2/2) Read: doi.org/10.1093/past...

The deadline for this CFP is today. After a request, the form will accept submissions until 10pm (not the original 5pm). We’re meeting to go through the proposals as soon as we can so hope to get back to everyone and open registration soon.

today! drop by if in Cambridge. I will be talking about my book with some wonderful colleagues. there will be drinks and nibbles to smoothen the evening!

In less than 3 days, nearly 600 historians signed their names to take a stand for trans rights. Thank you to everyone who signed and shared! I'll send the letter this week. There is still time to sign, so please share this with your historian friends/networks! docs.google.com/forms/d/1RA_...

7 May @Cambridge!

Friends/colleagues, please join us for the paperback launch of 'Passages Through India'. I will be in conversation with the wonderful @petermandler.bsky.social @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social & Sujit Sivasundaram. 7 May, 6-7.30pm, CUP Bookshop, Cambridge sign-up link below. @camhistory.bsky.social

So, there’s 28% off my book on Awesome Books, which, as far as I know, is the currently best deal out there. I didn’t know of the site, but they were set up to stop used books going to landfill. Save the books! www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780241...

wonderful work on the moral and political economy of odour and its relation to urban caste boundaries!

Paperback's out! Please spread the word! @cambridgeup.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Can you help us bring the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers to a wider audience? We're looking for a project Outreach & Education Co-ordinator to help showcase this fantastic archival collection (1 year, 0.5 FTE) Find out more at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

How did racial hierarchies operate onboard ships such as the RMS Viceroy of India? Shagnick Bhattacharya explores how the caste system permeated ship labour through lascars. www.historyworkshop.... #MaritimeHistory

UK academics wake up. What you see on the other side of the Atlantic is happening here too. Don’t bury your heads in the sand. Our sector is in financial peril and we are in the frontline of some of the most contentious issues of our time. If we don’t speak up no one else will.

Booking essential for this year’s Ellen McArthur Lectures, 3 free lectures over 3 days: 🏢Prof Thomas Piketty (EHESS & the Paris School of Economics) will explore ‘global inequality in historical + comparative perspective’ 📅21, 22 & 23 May 🏣Cambridge locations Booking link in reply⬇️

UCL History Department: Lecturer in Middle Eastern History (full-time, permanent, standard research & teaching contract). From 1600 CE onward, 'with a focus on any thematic, political, social, economic, or cultural aspects of the region’s history'. Deadline 11 April: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ128/l...

As things are getting worse for Palestinians, our ability to protest this abroad is shrinking. Some UK universities (like mine) are trying to ban demonstrations for 🇵🇸 please consider donating to legal costs to resist this, esp. if you’re based at a university/in the UK donorbox.org/studentprote...

Thanks Siobhán! stay tuned for some wonderful new research on the history of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe

Late to this excellent blog by @davehitchcock.bsky.social. It ends with some practical steps for reform of the car-crash university funding model. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...

My review of Mick Brown's 'The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went East' - a highly readable account of Indian gurus who went West and what this tells us about politics, religion and spirituality! www.epw.in/journal/2025... (drop message for a pdf)

Three-year postdoc at Cambridge on 'Ireland and the "ends" of the British Empire'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

go. buy. read.

Delighted to see the Hub is now on Bluesky! Last year I recorded a podcast with @sambrady.bsky.social @louisebell.bsky.social and @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social where we talked about why the Hub's work championing Disability History and Heritage is so important. Have a listen below!

For those who want to learn about #Partition, a handful of books that focus on different features and take different historiographical approaches -- #Pakistan #India #history

wonderful take

highly commended

Pl. spread the word! Three fab postdoc positions in Global Histories of HIV/AIDS Activism (India, Turkey, South Africa). With the wonderful @npapadogian.bsky.social at Stirling University, UK.

A tag was 'found' - actually the same size one that Serco falsly claimed didn't fit Gaie or that she refused. A farce. The takeaway: letters to MPs, @channel4news.bsky.social @theguardian.com @goodlawproject.bsky.social & others can force accountability & u-turns www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A longer version of Laura's article is available to read Open Access in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal 🗃️

Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Heidelberg calls! Scholars of Queer South Asian Diaspora, please apply to this wonderful ECSAS panel featuring @churnjeet.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social Kiran Sunar and me! Deadline 30 January! please spread the word ecsas2025.com/panel/97-new...

"No one seriously entertains the idea of Khalistan, given the devastation it brought. Pro-Khalistan candidates have been overwhelmingly rejected in election after election. Many view overseas-based Khalistanis as a distraction and a nuisance." buff.ly/3MYfeUs

We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise quality historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024. Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.

Lots of excellent food for thought here, but also a significant caveat re REF output scores and supposedly 'low quality publications', eg those scored below 3* & thus attracting no funding. See REF2014 History UoA report p. 51 re 2* work underpinning 4* work: 2014.ref.ac.uk/media/ref/co...