Andre Keil

Liverpool 8 and the Fight Against Apartheid How Toxteth's Struggle Became a Global One

One of our brilliant graduates this year, Aliyah Kerr, has turned her dissertation on anti-#apartheid #activism in #Liverpool into a Substack article. It's a brilliant read, and really showcases the quality of the research our students do for their dissertations. Give it a read!

JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities!

A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September.

jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I think the UK has its production facilities for vaccines, etc. There are also quite a few pharma companies in Ireland that produce them. In the long run, it might be wise to decouple these strategic industries from the US...

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Splendid!

I feel like I definitely need to buy this shirt.

Babelsberg have new shirts... 😍

Wird das auch ins Ausland, z.B. nach GB geliefert?

I've read James Retallack's book "German Social Democracy through British Eyes" and wrote a review about it...

Cheers! I hope it will be an interesting read! And although it's about Germany, there are many bits in the book that speak to the broader problem of democratic progress and authoritarian backlashes in other parts of the world today.

Willkommen am Babelsberger Park!

I hope so as well! 😅

Busy days ahead! Just received the proofs for my next book, which will be out in January 2026. It's written for a broad audience and covers a very timely topic. The best thing is that it will be released as an affordable paperback edition straightaway! #history #skystorians #book #germany

Make NHS dentistry, etc, widely and easily available and I would discuss it. But at the moment it's impossible to get registered as an NHS patient, and you are forced to go private if you don't want to pull out your own teeth with a plier.

Little addition to the #vinyl collection. Probably among the top 10 pop albums ever made imho.

Posting this again... #French speakers, what does "Vive le moucoutra" mean here. I really can't make any sense of it.

That's the spirit! 😅

Yeah, that's astonishing.

Sino-Soviet Split, etc, might explain that.

Immerhin 1 Punkt... hoffen wir mal, dass da noch mehr geht.

Fair play to Vattenfall...

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Also, this song was musically really ahead of its time. You could easily turn this into a grungy kind of song... A real discovery for me...

YouTube video by Joel Spiggott Jacques Dutronc - Hippie hippie hourrah (Dec 1967)

I am putting together a playlist for class next year on "1968", and I came across this gem by Jacques Dutronc. My #French is decent enough to make sense of the lyrics, but I don't get the "Vive le Moucoutra" bit... Can anyone help me and explain what this means?

The only popular politician, it seems...

Collaborative Doctoral Award – The Bluecoat’s Global Networks, 1830s to 1906 at Liverpool John Moores University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Collaborative Doctoral Award – The Bluecoat’s Global Networks, 1830s to 1906 at Liverpool John Moores University, listed on FindAPhD.com

We have a great opportunity for a prospective #PhD student at our #History Department at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. We have a fully-funded PhD #scholarship to work with my great colleague Prof. Nick White on the global connections of #Liverpool's Bluecoat School. All infos in the link below.

📘New issue out now!

Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at)

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🗃️ 20thc

I want to trademark "Beyond the Beyond" right now... I have a feeling this is the next frontier of HE marketing.

Sadly, it's not quite sure anymore whether The Onion is satire or just a cry into the void for commonsense...

Au contraire! I offer an example of a firmly held yet entirely apolitical opinion of mine: Most Roxette songs are musical/songwriting masterpieces that are (almost) ruined by the nonsensical lyrics.

I spent most of the last few days going through the proofs of my new book (share.google/zjDj8zgp0xHW...). This bit from the manuscript reminded me just how much autocrats and dictators are usually just grafters and charlatans (current ones included).

It's a great music book, mate. I have to pick it up again - really loved reading it the first time!