This is amazing. Huge congrats, Mo! @momoulton.bsky.social

Excited to welcome the inaugural Koch History Centre Fellows! These fellows are appointed for the academic year 2025-2026 on the theme: Religion and the State. @wadhamcollege.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-ko...

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Excited to welcome the inaugural Koch History Centre Fellows! These fellows are appointed for the academic year 2025-2026 on the theme: Religion and the State. @wadhamcollege.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-ko...

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

I'm on this podcast! In fact I'm especially hard to avoid, because I spoke to Izzy about Labour and empire across the entire twentieth century, so I could pop up in ANY EPISODE

We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections. Applications open until 22 September. Read more www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

This is absolutely true: the boundary between "housed" and "unhoused" in America is brutally porous. Millions of people are one rent hike, one missed paycheck, one medical emergency away from homelessness. And there's massive investment in keeping that reality hidden.

Registration is now open for the annual @mbhjournal.bsky.social Pimlott Lecture! Prof Helen McCarthy will be speaking on “Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age & Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s” 🗓️ Tues 25 Nov | 📍KCL 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-bri...

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]

At the risk of sounding sentimental, it's a bit of a dream come true to get to give this lecture. If family history, generational analysis or the ageing society is your thing, do consider signing up!

Registration is now open for the annual @mbhjournal.bsky.social Pimlott Lecture! Prof Helen McCarthy will be speaking on “Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age & Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s” 🗓️ Tues 25 Nov | 📍KCL 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-bri...

🗓️ Save the date: Tues 25 November Join @mbhjournal.bsky.social at KCL for the 2025 Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture, given by Prof Helen McCarthy on “Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age & Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s” 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-bri...

On the same day that the Empire Windrush arrived, the Carnarvon Castle departed Southampton with migrants leaving Britain for South Africa and Australia.

Over the next three weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature Beth Bhargava, ‘The National Front and Environmental Politics, 1967–90’, Modern British History bit.ly/43DNNrR 1/2

was such a pleasure to participate in this conference and hear about some amazing research in global histories of capitalism & the environment. thanks @mbrescius.bsky.social for a terrific event

The wonderful Tehila Sasson, Sugata Bose, Zaib un Nisa Aziz, and Sven Beckert during the concluding roundtable of a superb international conference. Vibrant discussions about the field and future of global histories of capitalism & the environment. Thanks to all participants!

I’m beyond excited for this conference: “New Global Histories of Capitalism & the Environment”! It also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard. Stay tuned for the publication

We are launching the AHRC-funded project Sites of fracture: 20th century Ireland at the margins of capitalism, which I'm thrilled to doing with @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social @erikahanna.bsky.social Patrick Doyle, Aoife O'Leary MacNeice, Matthew Kelly, and an amazing group of artists and archivists

i'm really looking forward to reading this

Pals, do you know a graduate student who has written a fantastic, 6,000-9,000-word (unpublished) essay in German Studies? Maybe you've written it yourself? The GSA is looking to award the best grad student essay, as judged by @claudiakreklau.bsky.social, @dominiquereill.bsky.social, and me!

We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...

Historian on sabbatical or funded research leave for some of 25-26? You might like to eye this Oxford visiting fellowship at Mansfield College: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

Fascinating read — @whitproject.bsky.social’s important new book “Erased” #HistIR

My book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY is 50% off on Princeton University Press's book sale — now just $19.98/£17.50!! @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

My book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY is 50% off on Princeton University Press's book sale — now just $19.98/£17.50!! @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I have a job open for an outreach and engement officer on my Joyce Butler project. Looking for someone with creativity and organisation to plan and run events. Part time for 18 months so might also suit a part time student. Delighted to discuss it informally. history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/outrea...

We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.

Please join us on Tues 8 April @ 12pm EDT (at Harvard or via Zoom) when Maya Jasanoff (@europeatharvard.bsky.social) will speak about 'The Birth of the Family Tree'. Lunch will be served following the seminar! Click for further info, abstract and Zoom link: histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/jas...

In 2020, Rolls Royce closed the aeroengine maintenance, overhaul and repair plant at Inchinnan near Glasgow. 700 workers lost their jobs during the COVID-19 lockdown. I was part of a team who interviewed the workers and we've now published their story in the Modern British History journal.

“Why is it so hard to let go of a broken system?” I have been waiting for someone to write something about the USAID cuts and the rush to abandon critical insights about humanitarianism (and and USAID in particular) and cling to already-broken promises. This by Margot Tudor is it!

Join us next Wednesday (2 April) as we're joined by @samwetherell.bsky.social. Sam's paper is titled 'Liverpool, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Britain. Arts Building LR2, 3:00-4:30pm. All welcome.

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

Does anyone have recommendations on recent work about the history of the ILO?

writing a book!

New publication! Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis For Modern Intellectual History I reviewed Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, @tsasson.bsky.social’s The Solidarity Economy and Jennifer Burns’s Milton Friedman doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Lars Cornelissen reviewed THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY alongside Melinda Cooper's new book and Jennifer Burns at Modern Intellectual History. @princetonupress.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking forward to talking about my book, THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY, this Tuesday (3/25) with Maya Jasanoff at Harvard's Center for European Studies. Come by if you're around! ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Today on In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Lyndal Roper, about her new book, Summer of Fire and Blood, on the political, religious, and intellectual worlds of thousands of peasants who rose up in Germany in mid-16th cen., one of the most decisive moments in the history of the Reformation.

Looking forward to talking about my book, THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY, this Tuesday (3/25) with Maya Jasanoff at Harvard's Center for European Studies. Come by if you're around! ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Lecturer/Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain, c.1650-1900: a permanent post in UCL's History of Art Department. Includes British art and material culture in its global and colonial contexts. Standard teaching & research contract. 22 April. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Absolutely delighted about the publication of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY (Cambridge University Press): www.cambridge.org/.../globaliz... via @cambridgeup.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS: Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History. Deadline: 14 March 2025. See below for more details: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...

After World War II, a whole phalanx of activists, donors, and scholars flocked to organizations that promised to solve injustices through coordinated individual action. Where did they go wrong? Udi Greenberg on THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY by @tsasson.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/sma...

Udi Greenberg reviewed THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY at the @bostonreview.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social You can read his review here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/sma...

There's a new review of my book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY in the journal Business History @princetonupress.bsky.social

Already in 1966, Stuart Hall condemned Oxfam’s charity drives as a futile project of “de-politicization”—an effort to replace a political challenge to global inequality with humanitarianism. Udi Greenberg reviews Tehila Sasson’s recent book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY (@princetonupress.bsky.social):

On Thursday at 12pm EST, join UMass History ONLINE for a discussion of student debt and the crisis of global capitalism, featuring @astra.bsky.social, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, and Kelly Gillespie; registration & more info here: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/stu... 🗃️

Udi Greenberg reviewed THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY at the @bostonreview.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social You can read his review here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/sma...