Peter Gatrell

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Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Brown University rejects invite to join federal compact

Great stuff but how about some history? Just for starters … Becky Taylor, Louise London, Tony Kushner and Katharine Knox, etc. etc.

We bring together contributions on the European civil wars by Kimberly A. Lowe, @nathan-rousselot.bsky.social, Lia Brazil, Anna Lively, Alba Martínez, Mercedes Yusta, @panoskaragkounis.bsky.social, @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social @pwgatrell.bsky.social and John Horne. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just catching up with his reminiscences from March 2024 on YouTube - then still going strong at the age of 92. A scholar of enormous range. I’ll always be indebted to Al for his advice and support.

Joan Wallach Scott saying what needs to be said

Great topic, great scholar too!

The Bomber's View of the Past Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.

From spy planes to satellites, archaeology has long shared a sky with empire. What does that mean for the knowledge it produces?

Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.

Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As a previous recipient of a BA small grant, I'd encourage eligible people to apply. It's possible to get a lot of research value in <£10K. (In my case experimentation with different digital skills pedagogy through hosting a number of open workshops, which influenced a bunch of publications.)

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.

Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

Green and red poster with the History Workshop logo and a title which reads ‘Can you help us?’ Underneath the title some text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org

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Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Gorgeous Navajo rugs on display at the American Museum in Bath

If only our media talked about the negative effects on society of tax avoidance
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social
@channel4news.bsky.social
@itvnews.bsky.social

“Five (others) were detected and sent back on the vessel, another five were still at large”. A reminder perhaps to question the oft-asserted line about the UK’s “proud tradition of welcome” to refugees…

“Refugees are pouring into this country in this way” said a prosecutor who secured a conviction for five Dutch seamen “for aiding and abetting a Viennese refugee to land from a motor vessel”. The judge said “it is common knowledge that this practice has become rife”. The Guardian, 24 July 1939.

Georgie Newson | ‘One in, one out’ When it was revealed earlier this month that the number of people who had reached the UK on small boats since Labour...

‘In the final months of the Sunak government, the number of crossings continued to increase. But not because the “hostile environment” was insufficiently hostile.’

Georgie Newson on why the UK’s latest ‘one in, one out’ policy won’t work, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Fantastic achievement Sadiah - so pleased for you!

As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives? Long-term use of hotels poses numerous challenges to those living there.

Great and timely piece by my colleagues Giorgia Dóna, Charlotte Sanders & Paolo Novak: As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives? #migration #asylumseekerhousing #immigration theconversation.com/as-protester...

The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532.

The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.

The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
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Manchester University Press Manchester University Press is known globally as a publisher of Humanities and Social Sciences research. We currently publish over 170 books each year, as well as seven journals.

🌍 Two new edited volumes featuring HCRI's Prof. Bertrand Taithe are set to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🧵 Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade.
💉 Medical Care and Intimacy in the Long Second World War, 1931–1953.

🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

📘New issue out now!

Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at)

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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New Academy President urges Prime Minister to strengthen and champion UK’s world-leading universities as higher education crisis deepens In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education sy...

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

Picture shows an overloaded black inflatable boat, with many people perched on it in the water. Underneath the headline reads “Gang leaders and fake passport dealers to be named in smuggling sanctions The government says individuals throughout the networks smuggling people into the UK will be targeted.”

it is uncontroversial but essential to point out that these “people smuggling gangs” are a creation of deliberate govt policies that destroyed all safe legal routes to asylum

Professor Claire Langhamer confirmed as new British Academy Fellow IHR Professor Claire Langhamer has been appointed a British Academy Fellow

Wonderful news this morning that @clairelanghamer.bsky.social the director of @ihr.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Warmest congratulations to Claire! www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

New article by @pwgatrell.bsky.social Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975
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Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History, you will be required to make a significant contributio...

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️
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The Vatican and the Eastern Bloc: what the Vatican archives can reveal about Cold War Europe - New Eastern Europe Five years after the Vatican unsealed its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, historians are only beginning to uncover the depth of insight they offer into the post-war transformation of Eas...

My article on the Vatican archives🇻🇦🏛 in the latest issue of New Eastern Europe:

🔎 For years to come, these immense multilingual archives will be a vital resource contributing to writing a new transnational history of the Cold War East

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