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

Great to be given a hard copy of the first monograph by my former PhD student @yiannicart.bsky.social, ‘Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945’.

Congratulations on the book!

anthempress.com/books/ikaria...

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...

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

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...

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

Professor Andrekos Varnava interview with Joe O’Brien on ABC NEWS 24, on 12 September 2022. YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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

Afelia tonight. Cyprus on my plate.

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....

My way of advertising @flindersuniversity.bsky.social where I work.

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

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....

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....

Russian embassy official found dead in Nicosia

Russian embassy official found dead in Nicosia

This article on the Cypriot Civil War seemed to gain popularity in December...
direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

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...

Back yard cricket…

Cover of 'Land o' Free Love & Goodbye', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from his album 'Numbers' (1975) YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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....

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....

Believe the unbelievable

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

Wild rabbit stifado with saffron rice.

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...

Cypriot Zaladina! Cyprus on my plate!

Today 17 years ago I was being interviewed for the post of Lecturer in Modern History at Flinders Uni. It seems like yesterday.

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