Raphael Samuel History Centre

History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’
with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela
18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Join us soon for ‘The Silences of Christopher Hill’ with Mike Braddick (University of Oxford)
5 March, 4.30, Birkbeck, London
Book here SilencesChristopherHill.eventbrite.co.uk
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Deploying History for Change: A Public Lecture Co-hosted with the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the QMUL Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire

Deploying History for Change: A Public Lecture
Davarian Baldwin (Trinity College, Connecticut)
1st April, 5.30pm
Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS
Book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deploying-history-for-change-a-public-lecture-tickets-1983359946992
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A. ‎L. Morton, British Communism, and the New Left Talk by James Crossley (University of Cambridge) followed by a wine reception

A.L Morton was once an influential figure on the British Left. Why did the rise of the New Left see his ideas increasingly sidelined in popular leftist memory?
Join us, 9 April, Birkbeck
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'The Silences of Christopher Hill', Mike Braddick (University of Oxford) Talk about Christopher Hill's work

Join us at the Raphael Samuel History Centre to hear about ‘The Silences of Christopher Hill’ with Mike Braddick (University of Oxford)
5 March, 4.30, London WC1
Book your place here SilencesChristopherHill.eventbrite.co.uk
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Leaflet promoting Anti-Fascist Internationalism and the UN: a better world for all (1942 - 1970s)

How did an influential group of experts develop dialogue that promoted a broader project to secure peace through greater equality after WW2?
Anti-Fascist Internationalism and the United Nations: A Better World for All
19/3/26
AntiFascistInternationalism.eventbrite.co.uk
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Book Launch: Charity After Empire British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion?
Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton
24/3/26, QMUL, London E1
Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594
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Anti-Fascist Internationalism & the United Nations: A Better World for All Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) delivers the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026

Join us for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026 with Prof. Sandrine Kott on 19 March 2026 @rshc.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social

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"Emotional Anarchists"? The anarchic turn in the first British New Left Sophie Scott-Brown discusses the anarchic turn in the first British New Left

What are the extents and limits of the anarchic turn in the New Left? Join Sophie Scott-Brown to discuss.
Thursday 5 February
Bloomsbury, London WC1
Book here EmotionalAnarchists.eventbrite.co.uk

31 Jan History Workshop @rshc.bsky.social; @historyworkshop.org.uk
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Call for Papers: Power, People, Papers: Policing the Mobility of 'Undesirables' (1870-1923)
9/6/26 Université Paris Cité.
Conference on the emergence and operation of modern state borders.
Submissions welcome in English and French.
Proposals by 9 Feb 2026 to policingmobility@gmail.com

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal.
To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk
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Our first speaker for the series will be Hiba Alkhalaf (Voices of Heritage/Aswat Alturath). She'll be speaking about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years on". Link to book below.

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The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series will start next term at Birkbeck.

The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!

Join us 18 Nov 2025 at 5:30pm for the History of Sexuality seminar with Isabel Davis (Natural History Museum) speaking on:

Conceiving Histories: Writing and Illustrating a Negative History

This is an ONLINE only seminar. All welcome, but please register at:

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

‘Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam’
Come along to the launch of Professor Faisal Devji's book, where he discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor.
1st December, London E1. WaningCrescent.eventbrite.co.uk
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Launch of 'Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam' Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor

The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:

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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973* Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

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Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism This online workshop will focus on absences from recent discussions on internationalism and is the 3rd 'Rethinking Internationalism' event.

And don't miss the Rethinking Internationalism online workshop on 5-6 Nov on 'Blindspots and Buzzwords in Internationalism', with a fantastic lineup of speakers. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Also worth flagging up @riakapoor.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar on 'Refugee internationalisms? The Ugandan Asian Case' on 27 Nov (12-1pm)

CSI Autumn 2025 Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism Lunchtime seminar by Dr Emma Kluge (Exeter) on “Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific” What: The Pacific Ocean covers more than 30% of the world’s surface. Howe...

Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link)

Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...

Join us for 'Sanctuary, Now and Then: asylum, migrant rights and anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s.'
Speakers include Stuart Crosthwaite, Amy Grant, Rachel Humphris, Paul Weller
7 Nov 12.00pm, Manchester Central Library
Book here sanctuarynowandthen.eventbrite.co.uk
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Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.

Join us for this event with Edgar Taylor on the Ugandan Archives:

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We’re excited to be part of Sanctuary, Now and Then ✨
asylum, migrant rights & anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s
📅 7 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12–3pm
📍 Manchester Central Library
Speakers include Stuart Crosthwaite, Amy Grant, Rachel Humphris & Paul Weller.
🎟️ Free – register here: shorturl.at/FZ6Nd

Join us to hear a core participant in the #spycops Inquiry speak about his work.
Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982: Subversives Under the Lens
6.00pm, 15 October, London WC1E 7JL
Book here UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk
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