Saffron East

As a regular reader, I am out on the picket line again today, supporting staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who are JUST asking for decent pay

🚀We’re #hiring a postdoc (3-years) for our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation!

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📅4 Sep 2025

Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Job researching plants and enslavement
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Indigenous Historical Practices Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?

Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.

www.historyworkshop....

Submitting this for publication shortly, and we're now at 2920 signatures. It would be amazing to get it over three thousand before I turn it in...

Excited to share the cover for my debut non-fiction book WE WERE THERE, which is out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head + is a cultural history of Black Britain in the Thatcher era.

Please pre-order it via the link if you feel inclined!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...

South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...

'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.'

Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement".

Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...

In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community.

Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective that arose in its aftermath.

We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming workshop for graduate students and early career researchers. Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World after 1945 will take place Oct 2-3, 2025 at the University of Glasgow. www.queensu.ca/ghi/events/u...

If anyone is about 18th March I'll be giving a public seminar for the Manchester Uni history department. The talk will be exploring photographs of industrial struggle, race and resistance and discussing 'Bolton's Grunwick', a mill strike in 1978. All welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

V&A Foundation Awards - MA History of Design Programme at Victoria and Albert Museum Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Two UK (home status) bursaries available for V&A's fab MA in the History of Design for 2025-26. Bursaries cover the full £17,000 fee. Under-represented groups supported by the scheme include for example African, Caribbean, Asian backgrounds, refugee status, care-leavers, disability, & low-income.

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

Exploring carceral intersections of race, class and disability Margarita Aragon on processes of race- & class-making in the incarceration of people perceived as mentally deficient in early 20thC Britain.

📌Exploring carceral intersections of race, class & disability - Margarita Aragon
📆12pm 20 March 2025 (hybrid)

@uomsoss.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @racerootsresist.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social
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BME Small Grants: 2025 Recipients We are delighted to announce the results of the latest round of the BME small grants funding scheme. This scheme is administered by SHS in partnership with the Economic History Society, History UK,…

📣We are delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants!

This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social, EHS; History UK; @historywo.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨

socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/10/b...

University Reimagined - Manchester University Press The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78

THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday!

www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...

NIAS – NIOD – KITLV Fellowship: Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonisation | NIAS This fellowship is intended for researchers from formerly colonised countries – including heritage practitioners, historians, archaeologists, social scientists, artists, journalists, and/or cultural a...

'We look forward to welcoming two fellows in the academic year 2025- 2026: both in the first semester (Sept 2025 - Jan 2026)'. Two 5-month fellowships available. Deadline 17 March 2025, 12:00 noon CET.

We are deeply concerned to hear about proposed cuts and programme closures at the University of Northampton and the University of Sheffield.

In solidarity with our colleagues, please join us and sign and share the two petitions below requesting URGENT action. 🚨 1/3

Research Associate – English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA):Oxford Road

📢VACANCY: Research Associate - ELSA longitudinal study. Post focuses on the social science elements of the study espec ethnic inequalities in later life. Full time, 10.5 months. Closing date 31/01/25
@uomsociology.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Another reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for our conference, British History Today, 1-2 May 2025 is 24 Jan. Send to qmcbs@qmul.ac.uk

**Black UK PhD students**

Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend

-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

**Tell everyone**

www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Women Speak Volumes Between Generations – APPLY Call for participants Young Black women aged 18-30 invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators Booker Prize winning author and literary activist Professor B…

Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...

*Call for Papers* Histories of racialised communities in Britain: a workshop for racially minoritised ECRs/PhDs

Thursday 26 June 2025
University of Cambridge

* abstracts due on Thursday 12 December *

supported by @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

get in touch for more info & pls share widely !

Seema Malhotra reportedly saying people will be allowed to use "expired documents" to travel to the UK because of issues with the eVisa system, shows a dangerous lack of knowledge about systems and border checks from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship. 1/5 #r4today

Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

*Call for Papers* Histories of racialised communities in Britain: a workshop for racially minoritised ECRs/PhDs

Thursday 26 June 2025
University of Cambridge

* abstracts due on Thursday 12 December *

supported by @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

get in touch for more info & pls share widely !