Rachel Pistol

Finally, some sunshine!

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The cutest personal assistant there is...
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Audience and panelists at the annual EHRI lecture at the university of southampton

Very nice to see so many people showing up for the annual European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Lecture at the University of Southampton!
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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026

We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!

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EHRI-UK Fellowships | EHRI-UK

The Second Call for EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships is live 📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2025
Find out more 👇
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Image with EHRI logo and text reading "EHRI-UK Annual Lecture: Transnational Holocaust Research in a Digital Age, a roundtable with Michal Frankl, Veerle Vanden Daelen, Michal Brandl & Rachel Pistol, Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm, Avenue Campus"

Please join us for the Annual EHRI-UK Lecture with speakers Michal Frankl, Vanden Daelen Veerle, Michal Brandl and Rachel Pistol!
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-an...

I sought to protect an immigrant legal client. Instead, I’m facing Trump’s new sanctions I appear to be the first attorney targeted in a scheme that calls on federal agencies to accuse lawyers of unethical conduct

I sought to protect an immigrant legal client. Instead, I’m facing Trump’s new sanctions

Go work for Rachel!

Come work for me! 👇🏻
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Homelessness, fear of starvation and racism – destitute migrant mothers and their children on the reality of life in the UK Over six years, researchers have worked closely with 25 single-mother families living in the shadow of this policy - which even affects British citizens.

Over six years, researchers have worked closely with 25 single-mother families living in the shadow of this policy - which even affects British citizens.

Many showers, first rainbow and beautifully intense

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025 Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.

What happens when your right to due process is removed? #history
theconversation.com/why-japanese...
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#ProtectEveryPark

new blog by our colleague Dr Rachel Pistol about her piece in The Conversation. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/history/wp-a...

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025 Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.

This weekend there was an impressive #DayOfAction to #ProtectOurParks & stand up to erasure of #history under #Trump
With #ICE raids & federal troops in #DC there is also an alarming repeat of history. Read more 👇🏻 theconversation.com/why-japanese...
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Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

“They have clearly shifted to it being a resource for BBC business priorities. The corporation no longer recognises the value that working with scholars brings, despite the fact this is an archive of how public money was spent over most of a century.” #history 📚🗃️ #BBC
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

On top of a pile of board games in a bookcase there is a black shadow from which two green cats eyes look at the camera

Sometimes when you stare into the void, the void stares back...
#cats

The Orwellian echoes in Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history, including at one of the nation’s key sites of public history-making: the Smithsonian. George Orwell would recognize Trump’s impulse.

Trump's push for 'Americanism' at the Smithsonian echoes George Orwell’s theme in 1984 of controlling the past to shape the future. A historian examines the implications for national memory:

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Very kind, Tony.

A must-read article from the expert on this, @drpistol.bsky.social.

Wondering why there is so much happening regarding #ProtectEveryPark Day of Action? The Trump administration is both erasing & repeating history #EO9066 #ICE
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Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025 Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.

Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025 Americans of Japanese heritage have been protesting at recent Ice tactics.

My article explaining the disturbing similarities between what happened to Japanese Americans in #WWII & today's #USA
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theconversation.com/why-japanese...

Research Fellowship opportunities now open ⬇️
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Research Projects Data Analyst at The National Archives Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

📣JOB ALERT📣
Are you passionate about data and making a difference in the public sector? The National Archives is looking for a talented data specialist to transform archival metadata bringing history to life. Application deadline 29 July 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS940/r...
#digitalhumanities

Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.

“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.”

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www.nola.com/news/politic...

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

Tim Walz speaks in a blue jacket

Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in “a political assassination.”

#Springwatch is the house panther's favourite TV programme...
#caturday #cats

#Springwatch is the house panther's favourite programme...
#caturday #cats