Beth Rebisz

Tanzania election: Curfew in Dar es Salaam after protests on polling day Several people have been injured in demonstrations that saw roads blocked and vehicles set on fire.

Curfew in Dar after protests at election in #Tanzania

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7124p544o

Screenshot of the article's title page with the abstract; content can be found under the link

New article out! 📝

El Shatt: Memories of a Yugoslav Partisan refugee camp travelling from North Africa to Croatia

published #OA in Memory Studies

co-authored with Marijana Hameršak (#Zagreb )

We look into the history of a #WW2 #Yugoslav #refugee #camp in […]

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Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...

This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!

I would really recommend a visit Mark! I think I'll need to go back to fully digest it all.

Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...

Please do go and check it out. More details here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...

I think I might need to get a University of Bristol History field trip together!

Yet a redress of emergency narratives, dispelling the myths about Empire that are still deployed in divisive national discourse, has been a long time coming. That's what this exhibition seeks to achieve and it's important that it stands today in the Imperial War Museum, in our capital.

This is a pretty historic moment for the IWM and British museums more broadly. We at the @museumofbc.bsky.social have of course hosted temporary/travelling exhibitions around the UK on the emergency in Kenya, but we've never owned a space, that isn't our aim.

The curation, the design, and the care with which the stories of those who lived through this violent period were handled has been very impressive to see. Congratulations to all those involved!

📣 Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus.

A new exhibition running at the Imperial War Museum between Oct 2025 - March 2026.

I was approached last year to join the advisory panel and have been so delighted to see this project come to fruition.

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...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded, after studying the evidence exhaustively, that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?

Planting Power: How the British Empire grew from Indigenous Knowledge | MBC A 1901 New York advertisement for quinine that highlighted the misappropriation of Indigenous knowledge in pharmaceuticals | Credit: AHIP Part […]

🔊 A wonderful first part to a three part series from a brilliant former student of mine, Esme Barrell. Glad we at @museumofbc.bsky.social could host this series and we look forward to reading the next installment!

museumofbritishcolonialism.org/planting-pow...

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Christians and the British empire: how a church NGO got entangled in colonial violence in Kenya The Christian Council of Kenya got involved in a violent colonial effort to rehabilitate independence fighters. It saw this as an opportunity to evangelise.

A great summary of Poppy's new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Christians and the British empire: how a church NGO got entangled in colonial violence in Kenya
theconversation.com/christians-a...

2/2 He seems to think Britain colonised countries with the intention of ‘developing’ them. Development policies were a late colonial response to anticolonial nationalists’ critiques of exploitation & had to be self-financed by colonised populations until after WWII.

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’

Well, a) good for them, but b) what the HELL are we doing when a bereaved family has to take a stand against government-sponsored pandering to racism?

University of Bristol jobs at risk amid lower student numbers The university says the number of applicants to the languages course has fallen in recent years.

it’s hard to stress just how important it is for universities to provide tailored support for students for whom english is not a first language, and how counter-productive these proposed redundancies are

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@ucu.org.uk

Thank you Tom! Incredibly kind of you to say and very high praise.

This is a fantastic article and such an important project! It sets a high bar for how colonial heritage projects and co-creation should be conducted. MBC also rejects extractive research practices through its efforts to bring research back to the community.

Congrats on the pub @brebisz.bsky.social!

@uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

What I truly hope comes from this is a new framework for innovative solutions which counteract the European destruction of African knowledge, culture, and memory. I am unbelievably proud to have learned in partnership with my research participants and the @museumofbc.bsky.social community!

The article plots the journey of my research thus far: the initial research conducted on villagisation in Kenya during the 1950s, the ways I have disseminated that through digital practices with @museumofbc.bsky.social, but importantly, the returning of this research to the respective community.

The article explores 'the need for adaptive and digital heritage practices grounded in co-creation and personal exchange to hold space for the individual experiences of those who lived through it'. Consultation on our research is VITAL, both for rigour and transparency.

Really delighted to see this out in the world, it was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the transformative event me and the @museumofbc.bsky.social held in Nyeri in 2023.

Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–1960 - Bethany Rebisz, 2025 This article examines the legacies of colonial detention in Kenya and considers the adaptive digital heritage practices used by the Museum of British Colonialis...

🔊 New Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @memorystudies.bsky.social

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.

Five things you should know about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of Africa’s greatest writers of all time Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o emerged with a new era in African history and led the charge to decolonise literature and academic thinking.

Five things you should know about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of Africa’s greatest writers of all time theconversation.com/five-things-...

New publication out for @museumofbc.bsky.social. All credit to @gabemoshenska.bsky.social for spearheading this 🎉

Poster image displaying an image of Ussher Fort with information on the exhibition below

Starting this week, MBC's website will host an online exhibition exploring the afterlives of colonial incarceration sites in Africa.