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Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
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.
07.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Join 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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Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records...
We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile
So lovely to have a record of these exciting talks! Thanks again for hosting the conversation @rshc.bsky.social, and for such wonderful contributions, @kabcommons.bsky.social, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust, @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social and @worsted.bsky.social! #SkyStorians #YayArchives!
30.09.2025 10:37 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Such a privilege to be part of this amazing roundtable, organised by @onslies.bsky.social at @rshc.bsky.social. So pleased that the conversation can be shared more widely (less pleased about my wobbly voice)
30.09.2025 07:30 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Spycops
Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982:
Subversives Under the Lens
Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group talks about his chapter in their new book
6.00pm, 15 October, London WC1E 7JL
Book here UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk
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New Seminar series (online, too) on Migration and Mobility History by @ihr.bsky.social. #MigHist: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
05.08.2025 09:41 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: a book launch
19 June 6pm London WC1E
Join us to discuss West Indian anti-colonialist Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
Speakers: Catherine Hall, Peter Hulme, Leslie James, Kesewa John
Book here RedBlackHarlemJamaica.eventbrite.co.uk
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TOMORROW: Teaching Migration History in an Age of Border Restriction
5/6/25, 6pm, London WC1E
An international panel of migration historians discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context.
teachmighist.eventbrite.co.uk
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Teaching Migration History in an Age of Border Restriction
5 June, 6pm, London WC1E
This roundtable brings together an international panel of migration historians to discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context.
TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk
How should we teach migration history in an era of ever-increasing global border restrictions?
Join us on 5 June at 6pm, London WC1E, followed by a wine reception
Free to book here TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk
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Did the British republican tradition endure through the Cold War?
'Reassessing E. P. Thompson’s Political Thought: The Case for Radical Republicanism'
6 June, 3.00pm, London WC1E
EPThompson.eventbrite.co.uk
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Join us for Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: a book launch
19 June 6pm, London WC1E 7JL
Book here (RedBlackHarlemJamaica.eventbrite.co.uk)
Hear about the life and work of West Indian anti-colonialist Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
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This Monday! I'll be talking about how migrants seeking protection creatively use paperwork to make moral claims to rights - in Britain today and 16thC England. Does a lack of rights limit the impact of paperwork? And how can we use of paperwork recentre migrants in histories of protection?
15.05.2025 10:36 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Only a week to go!
Changing The Record, 19 May, London
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
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Changing the Record: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19/5/25
www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
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@worsted.bsky.social
'Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction'
Join us to discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context
TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk
Thursday 5 June, 6pm, London WC1E
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@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
Come by for this Raph Sam event on archives - organised by @onslies.bsky.social and featuring an all star cast!
06.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Our roundtable brings together scholars, activists and archivists to think about the way people navigate bureaucracies and paperwork to shape their world.
19 May, Changing the Record, London WC1
www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
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Changing the Record.
How do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
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@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@worsted.bsky.social
Changing the Record
The power of paperwork: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, London WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
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28.04.2025 10:04 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0📢 Public Lecture with Professor Sameena Mulla | 30th April, 6pm-9pm 📢
‘Moynihan Redux: How Courts Theorize Black Families in the Prosecution of Sexual Assault’
For more information about the talk and to register, please use the link below:
lnkd.in/dsSg7EXX
The end of the world? It’s nothing new for many inhabitants of the Global South.
'After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon', Munira Khayyat, London WC1B
Join us on 13 May
aftertheendoftheworld.eventbrite.co.uk
Trying to find an image for an event on "Changing the record: how people use(d) paperwork to make their world" (@rshc.bsky.social), which mostly involves me scrolling through wikimedia commons thinking that absolutely every archive looks stunning and attractive. I'm... not a good judge on this...
14.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2
Screenshot of the event page for 'British History Today': On 1-2 May 2025, the Queen Mary Centre for British Studies hosts its first conference, British History Today. The event brings together 24 panels of experts covering a range of cutting-edge research across two days of parallel sessions. The conference will close with a plenary on the purpose of British history writing in today’s political, cultural, and higher education landscape. Booking essential for all attendees.
Just signed up to hear all about 'British History Today' at @qmcbs.bsky.social and ‘British History from the Middle of Nowhere’ by @julialaite.bsky.social for the @rshc.bsky.social public lecture on May 1st. Looking forward to seeing some of you there!
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