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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος)

@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social

Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava

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UK Cyprus base hit by drone The United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone, the Cyprus Mail learned in the early hours of Monday morning. Personnel on the bases were informed that a “small drone” ...

British Sovereign Bases in Cyprus hit by drone cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/02/s...

02.03.2026 03:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It does seem odd, but possible given the random targets.

01.03.2026 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iran missiles fired towards UK military bases in Cyprus, defence minister says Defence secretary John Healey has revealed that UK assets in the Middle East are at risk from Iranian retaliation

Iranian missiles targetting British Sovereign Bases Cyprus... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

01.03.2026 10:03 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Soon there will be a former NZ PM as Aussie PM!

26.02.2026 04:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Professor Andrekos Varnava interview with Joe O’Brien on ABC NEWS 24, on 12 September 2022.
YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava Professor Andrekos Varnava interview with Joe O’Brien on ABC NEWS 24, on 12 September 2022.

His mother is rolling in her grave www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHM6...

19.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Afelia tonight. Cyprus on my plate.

19.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–1815 This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sover...

My latest article (open access) #history #historian #southeastasia #Imperialism #Colonialism #Decolonisation
#treaties #Raffles #sovereignty

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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My way of advertising @flindersuniversity.bsky.social where I work.

15.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First Past the Post is the electoral system you have when your politics has run repeatedly head-first into a brick wall. It is an indefensible crude system that produces results that routinely fail to have even passing resemblance to being representative

FPTP apologists are bad and should feel bad

06.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

5k views/downloads on my EOKA essay in less than 10 months. Are people ready to understand the nature of EOKA? @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

06.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Revisiting the road to Cypriot independence In September 1958 Archbishop Makarios, the Greek Cypriot leader, told Barbara Castle, the then Chair of the British Labour Party, that, after three and a half years of violence from EOKA (Εθνική Ορ...

Published only 2 years ago, this article has had 8k views/downloads. Thanks so much for the support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

25.01.2026 05:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Russian embassy official found dead in Nicosia

Russian embassy official found dead in Nicosia

12.01.2026 09:53 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This article on the Cypriot Civil War seemed to gain popularity in December...
direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

08.01.2026 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Me and @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social also published this open access article for The Historical Journal (@historicaljnl.bsky.social), 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'.

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

31.12.2025 05:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Back yard cricket…

26.12.2025 05:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of 'Land o' Free Love & Goodbye', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from his album 'Numbers' (1975)
YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava Cover of 'Land o' Free Love & Goodbye', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from his album 'Numbers' (1975)

My cover of a largely forgotten yet beautiful song my @YusufCatStevens on happiness needing only nature, love and God to flourish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE9...

21.12.2025 23:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil War Abstract. A case study of the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967) demonstrates that existing scholarly definitions of civil war are inadequate. The arbitrary death thresholds that qualify conflicts for incl...

Start with knowing what happened to bring about the division. Start here direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

17.12.2025 10:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

EOKA people have been profiting from controlling the Republic of Cyprus since 1960 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.12.2025 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Featuring Andrekos Varnava’s Swathe of Political Studies Andrekos Varnava is a Greek Cypriot and it has been the privilege of Flinders University in Adelaide and Australia-at-large to have him researching and teaching in their various reaches. CYPRUS is …

Thank you to Michael Roberts, an anthropologist who worked at Uni of Adelaide, for this blog. thuppahis.com/2025/07/28/f...

15.12.2025 20:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

Fascism in Cyprus masked as national liberation. See my essay www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2
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EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

My essay on EOKA might be of interest www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation? 70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

My essay might be of interest www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Believe the unbelievable

25.11.2025 11:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There are wild rabbits in the gorge around the campus! But no. Specialist game meat butcher. Also got 🐊

23.11.2025 21:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Wild rabbit stifado with saffron rice.

23.11.2025 08:01 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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30 New Fellows elected to Humanities Academy – Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities has today announced the election of 30 new Fellows. Election to the Academy is the highest honour in the humanities in Australia, recognising scholars whose wo...

Nice to be elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

19.11.2025 05:26 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cypriot Zaladina! Cyprus on my plate!

14.11.2025 22:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today 17 years ago I was being interviewed for the post of Lecturer in Modern History at Flinders Uni. It seems like yesterday.

10.11.2025 22:18 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I preordered mine. I’ve heard it is available in book stores.

08.11.2025 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well done to the entire Team!

02.11.2025 10:17 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0