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This image shows the title and abstract for a new journal article by Benjamin Bland, published in the Journal of British Studies. Title: "“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”: Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain". Abstract:"Popular music culture has often featured in postwar British history as a site of tolerance and inclusivity, of multicultural exchange and anti-racist activism. This article, while not denying music's intersections with progressive causes, presents a different narrative. I use the pages of Britain's most prominent weekly music paper, the New Musical Express (NME), to demonstrate the important role that music has played in perpetuating wider processes of racialization in the late twentieth century. Surveying contestations over race in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, it highlights the ways in which popular music institutions such as the NME could function as sites of racial formation, reproducing the social power of whiteness even when providing space for what was often referred to as “black music.” The article underlines the degree to which popular music could produce hegemonically white cultural spaces, despite the diversity of musical culture at large. In so doing, it indicates the significance of popular culture for understanding patterns of racialization into the latter years of the twentieth century and beyond."

This is a fascinating looking paper by @benjamin-bland.bsky.social, on processes of racialisation in the popular culture of late C20th Britain.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Book Launch: Charity After Empire British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

Book launch 3. Matthew Hilton’s Charity After Empire, Tues 24 March 6pm, Arts 2, @qmul.bsky.social, with @rshc.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social, David Williams, Kavita Datta and Bill Schwarz: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch for Make Cheese not War. Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in modern France

Book launch 2. Andrew Smith's @smidbob.bsky.social ky.social Make Cheese not War. Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in modern France, 9pm, 5.30pm at @ihr.bsky.social in conversation with @alisoncarrol.bsky.social, @vbivar.bsky.social
& Sarah Farmer : www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book launch 1. Leslie James' The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought: this Thursday 4 March, 6pm QMUL Graduate Centre, 7th Floor in conversation with Musab Younis (Oxford)

Three book launches by QM History in March: Leslie James; Andrew Smith @smidbob.bsky.social and Matthew Hilton

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...
@jessicareinisch.bsky.social

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
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

The Go-Home Office: border forces since 1962 Histories exploring the Home Office and its immigration service

Tomorrow (24th) at 5pm with @liamliburd.bsky.social ,
@juanitacox.bsky.social and Bobby Phe Amis: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-go-hom...

Charity After Empire Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century British History - Charity After Empire

Use 20% discount code CAE2026 to purchase here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

How charity helped shape Britain after empire

Today is the publication date for Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

Not quite QM British Studies but @smidbob.bsky.social is a wonderful neighbour & ally. Congratulations!

Next week, I'm speaking at The Mix in Bethnal Green as part of an event on the history of the inner workings of the Home Office. I'll be speaking about the letter signed by 38 immigration officers at London Heathrow airport in support of Enoch Powell in the wake of his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech.

History and Archives in Practice History and Archives in Practice is where historians and archivists come together to consider shared interests in archive collections.

If you’re planning to be in Sheffield in April, @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org and @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy are hosting the annual History & Archives in Practice conference, registration now open! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

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
@qmul.bsky.social

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

On advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"

by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Thanks too for support from @rshc.bsky.social

Book Launch: Charity After Empire British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

Next QMCBS Book Launch with @qmulsse.bsky.social : Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire on 24 March 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc.... Panel with Bill Schwarz,
@riakapoor.bsky.social Kavita Datta & David Williams

Prof Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London
Who was Granville? Questions from the archive of the 1831-32 uprising in Jamaica
5-7 PM | SR24 | English Faculty Building, Cambridge University

Labour's problem isn't Keir Starmer | LSE British Politics Labour's dismal performance in the polls has lead to Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party being openly contested. But Colm Murphy argues that, while Starmer is a flawed politician, many of th...

Excellent essay from @colmpm.bsky.social on Labour's current mess, adeptly balancing strucuture and agency

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Will be of interest to @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social @cammbhw.bsky.social and those heading to this year's Birmingham conference
@modbritstud.bsky.social

Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Book Launch: The Moving Word Leslie James in conversation with Musab Younis about her new book (reception to follow)

And another QM @qmulsse.bsky.social book launch - Leslie James' The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought: Thurs 5 March 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

The Hennessy Lecture: Kate Adie CBE

We're thrilled to be welcoming legendary broadcaster Kate Adie to the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social for our 5th distinguished Hennessy Lecture.

She'll discuss her life as a reporter and explore the challenges & paths ahead for journalism today.

16 Feb 6:30.Book here!
www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/m...

Charity After Empire Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire

Former Past & Present Co-Editor Matthew Hilton's (@qmcbs.bsky.social) new book "Charity After Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development" is out now through @universitypress.cambridge.org CORE and formally published next month

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Book Launch: Charity After Empire British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

There are a couple events discussing it scheduled for the spring in London:

The first at QMUL on Tuesday 24 March (5-7pm) with a panel comprising Ria Kapoor; Kavita Datta; David Williams

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Charity After Empire Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire

I'm really looking forward to reading Matthew Hilton's timely new @universitypress.cambridge.org book Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation, and Development.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Charity After Empire Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire

Published next month in our Modern British Histories series (though available earlier online via Cambridge Core), Matthew Hilton's Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development. Essential reading for our times. #Skystorians

31 Jan History Workshop @rshc.bsky.social; @historyworkshop.org.uk
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

The Strange Death of Feminist Internationalism 07 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Kirby07 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Kirby.pdf105 KBdownload-circle The history of Labour’s international development policy has long been intertwined with its views and aims on gender eq...

FREE TO READ: Paul Kirby traces the history of Labour's long-standing feminist ambitions in the international sphere, and laments their apparent death amidst swingeing aid cuts