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'Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970' by @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social has won the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language & Culture, awarded by #ACIS2025 🎉 'Exhibiting Irishness is a groundbreaking work' @rise-open-journal.bsky.social Out now! #Irishness #IrishStudies

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Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

submitted 45 days ago • 27 comments

Americans, I’d like you to reflect on your desire to take over Canada and honestly compare it to Russia’s sense of entitlement to Ukraine. We don’t want to be part of your country. We are our own country. Stop feeding this imperialist mindset, New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

It reads like lunacy, but what’s interesting to me as a historian is the confident misinterpretation and half-baked fact picking from history to suit a historical master narrative which is honestly bananas.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Some actual imperialist nonsense posted by @economist.com today on Instagram. How about we don’t just capitulate to expansionist delusions?

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 57 days ago • 578 comments

Could Keir Starmer please take a break from fretting over imagined opinion polls for next election and do us a massive favour and LEGISLATE against foreign interference in our democracy? That’d be great, thanks.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Canadians have a global reputation for being polite and peace loving. But if you think Canadians are going to go quietly with Trump’s North American conquest plan… you don’t understand that one of the strongest forces in Canadian identity is anti-Americanism.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

I don't understand the political timidity when it comes to regulating social media. These are companies that have decimated the free press, fuelled race riots on our streets, undermined the mental health of our children, paid little tax and are now undermining liberal democracy itself.

submitted 58 days ago • 177 comments

A feeling of powerlessness or overwhelm in the face of rising authoritarianism is a construct. It is only the new normal if we make it so.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others. Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

If you’re still an Elon Musk supporter at this point and want to argue that he is not a racist who enables racists… I truly don’t understand how we are living in the same world. There are signs, statements and actions for your eyes to see, everywhere.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

As 2024 is coming to an end, I thought I would put together a thread of the top 10 visited collections from my list of online and open access collections of radical historical documents (with nearly 700 now listed and more to come). hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

submitted 65 days ago • 7 comments

It took the last government about five minutes to legislate to stop foreigners buying a national newspaper. How long will it take for this government to close a loophole that allows a foreigner to influence the next UK election by sloshing millions the way of one party?

submitted 75 days ago • 21 comments

This is all unfolding, but is it possible we will see the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England if ++York resigns too? Bishop of London Sarah Mullally is the third highest ranking in the C of E. www.christiandaily.com/news/calls-f...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

submitted 79 days ago • 181 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third… ” Judith Butler on throwing the Trans community under the bus. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

wtaf

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

I said something along these lines to a group of sixth form students today, this is absolutely key for people to value and understand:

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The Migration Museum is open daily 12-22 December. Check out All Our Stories: Migration & the Making of Britain and the prize-winning shop while learning about the Museum's ambitious plans for a permanent, purpose-built facility in the City of London from 2027. 1/2 @migrationmuseumuk.bsky.social

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

Welcome the wonderful @hollyscooper.bsky.social to Bluesky with a follow! Currently working on a DPhil on the history of Black communities in Coventry, they are an outstanding graduate of the MA in Black British History 💫

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Again, the bigger story is the harm they’re causing in applying a business model to Higher Education that simply doesn’t work. The egregious money-grabbing is a symptom of that disconnect between management and reality of universities.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Enjoying the festive sounds of tap dancers practicing to Britney Spears’ almost forgotten Christmas single out of my office window with @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social. A Goldsmiths’ Christmas!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

submitted 88 days ago • 27 comments

Today! Hope to see some of you there, despite the rain.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Have I been living in a cave? When did the London Metropolitan Archives > London Archives branding change happen?

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

‘Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that the government of Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.’ Link to the specific report below. www.amnestyusa.org/reports/you-...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

submitted 93 days ago • 80 comments

UNRWA: "Out of the 91 attempts the UN has made to deliver aid to besieged north #Gaza between 6 October and 25 November, 82 have been denied and 9 impeded. The conditions for survival are diminishing for the 65,000-75,000 people estimated to remain there."

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Watching the incredible Joya Chatterji win the Wolfson History Prize 2024 for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian 20th Century. Brilliant choice from a fabulous shortlist.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

It’s the 60th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the cathedral is celebrating with a brilliant series of free events and workshops with writers, theologians and church leaders. More information can be found here: www.stpauls.co.uk/martin-luthe...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment