Shirin Hirsch

Any recommendations for a general and good introduction to the origins and early history of Apartheid in South Africa?

Congratulations, it looks brilliant!

Also shout out to the comrades who have made his writing accessible for future generations www.marxists.org/archive/padm...

Photograph of George Padmore reading a newspaper

Reading the work of George Padmore for the first time. What searing, powerful and relentless writing exposing the horrors of colonialism and still so relevant today.

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.

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Photograph of Leon Trotsky

Simon Guttmann was mentor to many photographers, but my favourite story is Guttmann in 1932 sending a young Hungarian photographer Endre Ernö Friedmann to Copenahgen to photograph Trotsky in exile. Four years later he would be famous under the name Robert Capa jacobslibris.uk/2024/12/10/w...

Lino print of Simon Guttman

Photograph of woman sitting on chair and text under reads 'Tante Lotte, 1955'

Photograph of Guttmann holding a series of photographs

Fam shared photo of German Jewish great aunt Lotte (Lucie) Guttmann. Ancestry dig we find her son Wilhelm Simon Guttmann revolutionary, friend of Walter Benjamin,early visitor to Soviet Russia,pioneer of photojournalism. Escaping Germany,he settled in UK worked on Picture Post before founding Report

Quote from Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive, that says: "Nursing is a global family, and Alex Pretti’s death in such violent circumstances will be felt deeply. Those who join our profession do so because they are compassionate, and driven by an unrivalled commitment to public service."

We send our support to Alex Pretti's family and loved ones, and the global nursing community which has lost a devoted member. No matter where they are in the world, they - and the people they serve - deserve to be safe, both at work and in their communities.

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists

let's check in on that 'ceasefire'

YouTube video by British Pathé Lambeth - "No Colour Bar" Dance (1955)

No colour bar dance, 1955 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HNl...

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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YouTube video by TheSunAnge Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...

Elspeth King obituary Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history

I was reading about Elspeth King in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things - she features in the introduction. What a wonderful life www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Our two year old twin just said ‘he misses his mummy’ and the other explained ‘but he has balloon’ 🥹🥹🥹

Sunday afternoon watching Up - what a great film 🎈 ❤️

I’m in this piece talking about the Manchester links with the fifth Pan African Congress…

Great news, congratulations!

Last few tickets for this, next Friday!

‘Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell?’ 😝 🥰

Beforehand there will also be a range of Manchester archives showcasing material documenting the Pan African Congress - free event but book tickets here phm.org.uk/events_new/a...

This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...

A brilliant first published journal article by Mohammed Khan, on an Indian Seamen’s Home in 1940s Liverpool - well worth a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

A ‘wake up call’ seems right way of putting it for our side. Majority in London surely horrified at what just took place.

On the Tommy Robinson march… On the tram today and a man flicking through his Fb turns to his partner says ‘look Steve was on the march for common sense’, the tram passenger clicks ‘like’ and scrolls on. Huge potential for fascists to broaden and deepen their base further after yesterday

Ten to one on Burnham as next Labour leader, pretty good odds right now...

Thanks Catherine - be good to chat Henry :)

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

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This is a brilliant history from below by @grsbrown.bsky.social. The ANL had a defining impact on the contours of racism and anti-racism and was that rare thing, a success, defeating the National Front. Now more than ever we need to return to this history bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/a-pe...