Saima Nasar

The Secret Desi History blog is a lovely collection of random snippets of South Asian American history from the curators of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour www.secretdesihistory.com

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!

Horrified and heartbroken by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, on Yom Kippur, the holiest time in the Jewish calendar.

My thoughts are with the victims, their families and all Jewish communities.

Antisemitism is an evil we must confront and stand resolutely against.

Portrait of a women, side profile, her hair is tied up, she wears a roll neck sweater

It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth 🎨

This page gives you a useful starting point to begin exploring the work of Black artists on Art UK 👉 artuk.org/discover/art...

🧑‍🎨 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) © Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Corvi-Mora, London. 📷the artist.

✈️ Our PGR internship series returns, as PhD @uobrishistory.bsky.social candidate Jenny Hutton tells us about working with Dr @smawdsley.bsky.social to examine the history of aircraft cabin air contamination

Read more about this important research with global reach 👉 bit.ly/3IHyV47

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

50 years on: Caribbean women and the Chapeltown bonfire night incident 1975 Marking 50 years since the Bonfire Twelve, this talk explores the women's role in resisting racism and injustice in Leeds.

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University.

⏰ 18:00 - 19:00
📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus
🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBritishHistory

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...

YouTube video by Unifrance Fanon (2025) - Trailer (English Subs)

There is a film screening of Fanon (2024) in Bristol later this weekend.

Sat 4 Oct, 8PM–10.30PM
The Cube Microplex, Bristol
www.brff.org.uk

Frantz Fanon’s story — from his early psychiatric work in Algeria to his role in anti-colonial struggle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaO...

Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation,
we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

New article (with Exeter colleagues and Louise Ashley) thinking about the nature of the current 'social mobility industry' in England

V happy to share a new OA article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social written with Sim Koole. It’s about dock work, dockside life and the changing river in turn of the century Rotherhithe.

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928* Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

A woman holds a book with the title ‘Electric Wind:An Energy History of Modern Britain’. She is smiling.

A small ginger, white and tabby cat curls up in a box of books with the title ‘Electric Wind’. She looks happy.

Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October 🙂

Photograph of the Black People’s Day of Action, March 1981

The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky!

Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀

@ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨

Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'

It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Video and audio recordings of Yasmin Khan's RHS Lecture now available - RHS Video and audio recordings of Professor Yasmin Khan's recent RHS Lecture -- 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' -- are now available. Yasmin’s lecture, given on 12 September 2025...

Video and audio recordings of last week's RHS Lecture by Prof. Yasmin Khan - 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' - are now available: bit.ly/4pw5B15

Yasmin's is one of many lectures available to watch or listen to again via our Events Archive bit.ly/3IaWtOG #Skystorians

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style.

So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’

Small Grants The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!

💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history

🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
✨Apply today!

Thanks very much Daniel!

Rob Waters. Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire In Enoch Powell’s often quoted 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, the Conservative Party politician warned against the dangers of rising immigration from Brita

I reviewed Rob Waters’ ‘Colonised by Humanity’ for American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-.... It is an excellent, timely monograph!

Focusing on children’s first 1,001 days can build neighbourhood support for migrant families Peer support can help parents build secure relationships and grow in confidence bringing up their children.

How can Bristol communities support migrant families better?

The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.

📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport

#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport