Good to pair this review with Vivien Chang's penetrating essay on The Second Emancipation in the Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...
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A fascinating read!
25.06.2025 07:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"“What are we wanting students to belong to?” What is the space of the university? What is the history of our discipline? What key intellectual voices and ideas do we engage with? Should we really be asking racialised students to “be at home” in these spaces, with this history and with these ideas?"
23.06.2025 09:26 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
How do colonial-era racial theories continue to influence modern science in India?
In our latest GHIL #podcast interview we're exploring this question by examining new research which traces the transnational connections between Germany and colonial India in the field of racial science. 🎧
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19.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Cold War Civil Rights
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold War
It's the official publication day for the 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights!! New preface sets it in the context of the contemporary global Black Lives Matter movement.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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#booksky #writingcommunity
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Sadiah Qureshi in conversation with David Olusoga about extinction
Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)
Book launch news! I will be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. It’s free, but limited places so register here (from Monday).
I’ve managed to schedule this for Eid so expect a very dressed-up author and entourage!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...
11.04.2025 15:49 — 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present
& thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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A bit late to the party, but I hear all the cool people are over here now. Excited to be part of the Bluesky communities
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Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
Project Coordinator & Teaching Fellow, @uni-freiburg.de
MA Political Science/Political Theory from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
historian and theatre curator | violence, body, the first world war, and the 1917 revolutions | Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union | also write about contemporary Ukrainian theatre | in theatre when not in the archives
Joseph Schumpeter's creative destruction is the norm.
Historian, political scientist, comparative genocide studies. Author, Genocidal Conscription (2023)
https://t.co/k83Q8eq2bo
Father and teacher. All posts are for educational purposes.
Contemporary historian interested in France, work, consumption, class, gender, deindustrialization. Based in Glasgow.
UofG is implementing new solutions to age old problems, supporting our colleagues to pursue their academic missions, and making our University fit for tomorrow. https://lnk.bio/UofG-Transformation
Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Migrant. Rheinländer in 🇩🇪. Northerner in 🇬🇧. Gen X. Cyclist. Owned by dog. Often online. Here privately. He/him.
Lecturer in History & Military History at Lincoln Bishop University. Researches Civil War memory and the Republican Party. Posts about sport and politics. Views my own, sadly 🏉⚽️🌹
Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Historian of political ideas, Sr Fellow@UC Berkeley’s Institute European Studies;
lecturer @Santa Clara U; editor at HISTORY & THEORY; author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS (Stanford 2022), write on IR theory, 20th cent. Germany, transatlantic intellectual history
UOW Historian | Bks on Shame, Anti-Feminism & Empire, Remembering Women's Activism, & Emotions Sources | Irish Migrant | Dep Editor Women’s History Review | Views my own
Historian, feminist, UU. Currently finishing a book on the long conservative women's movement in 20th-c. America. My other book project is on feminist legal reformers in 20th-c. Texas, particularly at mid-century.
Historian of Science and Ideas.
Histoire, radio et idées. Responsable du pôle documentaire de France Culture.
Historian of France, decolonization, gender at UofL. Still working out my relationship to social media.
Historien de terrain, maître de conférences à @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social, chercheur au Centre d'histoire du XIXe siècle.
Membre d'Espaces & Sociétés, d'Histoire Urbaine et de la Rh19.
Et, surtout, porteño ayant retraversé l'Atlantique.
historien, sites histoirecoloniale.net et 1000autres.org ; "Le Pen et la torture. Alger 1957, l'histoire contre l'oubli" (janvier 2024)
historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD Freie Universität Berlin
