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Sage have taken over publishing Science & Society, so I got an email today saying that my 2008 article, '“Class before Race”: British Communism and the Place of Empire in Postwar Race Relations', has been published with a new link. DM me if you need access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1521/...

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See the latest book review of 'The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941' by Rosemary Wakeman, University of Chicago Press (2024), reviewed by Taoyu Yang: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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Or you use as it the basis to start your own archive/library collection. 😄

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#skystorians

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We are delighted to publish our Entente Cordiale special update on our open access @uclpress.bsky.social publication ‘Paper Trails: The Social Lives of Archives and Collections’ 🗃️ ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/3/?filt...

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Quavers Monster Munch

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Great to see that latest issue of 'Radical Currents', the journal of Australian Society for the Study of Labour History', is online and free to download, featuring pieces based on articles from our special issue of Labour History. www.labourhistory.org.au/wp-content/u...

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It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs), tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky (pls boost to any relevant feeds)

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When I find new stuff on the Internet Archive

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#skystorians

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This may interest historians of Southern Africa and settler colonialism. I've uploaded scans of run of Rhodesian/Zimbabwean History journal from 1970-81. This was the journal of the Central Africa Historical Association, based at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ruzbp...

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#OTD On 24 April, 1960, a protesting student threw a glob of green jelly into the face of Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists, while he spoke at Cambridge University. hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/w...

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Spicy Chicken Tikka Wrap from Monsoons on Oxford Road in Manchester, or Vetkoeks from a good truck at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa

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Finding old memes on my phone

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Finding old memes on my phone

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Have a read of Seokju Oh's book review of 'Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower' by Mary Bridges, Princeton University Press (2024): doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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New book review published by @jich.bsky.social Review of Rosemary Wakeman's 'The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941' by Taoyu Yang. @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New collections added, part 1: • Cheryl Johnson-Odim Anti-Apartheid Collection • Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection • Orlando Redekopp Anti-Apartheid Collection • Rozell (Prexy) Nesbitt Anti-Apartheid Collection • Fabian Society pamphlets hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

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I have uploaded a pre-pub version of my new book chapter, 'Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s', to ResearchGate and Academia dot Edu. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/128847924/Re...

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New book review published by @jich.bsky.social Review of Rosemary Wakeman's 'The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941' by Taoyu Yang. @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I have uploaded a pre-pub version of my new book chapter, 'Refugee Campaigns in the Communist Press in Britain and Australia in the 1930s', to ResearchGate and Academia dot Edu. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/128847924/Re...

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Look what arrived today!

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See the latest book review by Andrew Salamone on 'Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture by David Lambert, London, Cambridge University Press, 2024': doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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📣 ECR OPPORTUNITY 📣 In collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Histories, we are offering 10 Writing Fellowships for ECRs! Fellows will write one opinion piece and one policy briefing note, mentored by academics from the CCH and APH. Deadline: 10 May 2025 Info: aph.org.au/2025/04/aust...

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Digging through various boxes labelled 'current projects', looking for something that I printed out several months/years ago. Have found part of it, but starting to go down new rabbit holes.

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The copy-edits for this went back to the publisher today. Indexing soon. Not long to go now!

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Applications are now open for the Ann Curthoys Prize. Applicants must be an Early Career Researcher (ECR) and a member of the Australian Historical Association (AHA). Applications close on 1 May 2025. See: theaha.org.au/awards-and-p... #HistoryAustralia #ECR

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New book review published by @jich.bsky.social David Lambert's "Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture", reviewed by Andrew Salamone. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New book shelves 90 per cent unpacked now. Not really ordered, except for size.

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New book review published by @jich.bsky.social David Lambert's "Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture", reviewed by Andrew Salamone. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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This week in 1974, the UK National Union of Students first implemented their ‘no platform’ policy. I wrote about the history of this policy in my book, ‘No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (which is on sale here): www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

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Stop getting Bond wrong!

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