Tehila Sasson

CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026

Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!

Very much looking forward to hearing @emilybaughan.bsky.social talk about her current work on the politics of childcare this Thursday. Come if you're in town!

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Landscape For A Good Infant How has the state shaped different generations’ experience of infancy?

this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

Anti-Fascist Internationalism & the United Nations: A Better World for All Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) delivers the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026

Join us for the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026 with Prof. Sandrine Kott on 19 March 2026 @rshc.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social @drmargottudor.bsky.social

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This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.

A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

Details in poster below, please share.

A colour block banner with the words 'International Fellowships 2026' written on the left-hand side.

The International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

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Can't wait to read Bethany's forthcoming book on this. @khc-oxford.bsky.social

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Bethany Moreton talking now about the Christian reconstructionist movement, Gary North, and the relationship between neoliberalism and religious far right at the KHC in Oxford/Wadham.

important additional word to the original title of the post! looking forward to reading it Colm

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

*drum roll*

Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

We’re hosting Professor Bethany Moreton at the Koch Historical Centre next week. She’ll be giving a public talk titled “Theocracy Now!” You can sign up for it here: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/koch-...

Presenting tomorrow on secret policies for 'Old Commonwealth' mobility during 1960s, when UK govt declared its migration policy was 'colour blind'. Developing a paper I presented at @qmcbs.bsky.social last year. Pls do come along if in Oxford and free at 2pm

Thanks to the many who showed up to the first - the second on Thursday 29 January at 5pm in the Examination Schools is about 'Media' - how did people learn a language of social science and how do we know what they learned?

‘Perhaps only Children’s Corners’: spaces for children in British museums from c. 1900 to 1939† Abstract. This article examines the brief flowering of spaces for children in British museums in the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that ma

Extremely pleased to see this lovely article from Kate Hill (Lincoln) now published in MBH. Hope readers love it as much as I did. @mbhjournal.bsky.social

Perhaps only Children’s Corners’: spaces for children in British museums from c. 1900 to 1939 doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

James Goldsmith, godfather of British populism Unlike Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, Goldsmith told the truth

For the New Statesman I tracked the career of the corporate raiding Thatcherite turned populist tribune, James Goldsmith

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The Killing Age by Clifton Crais Find out more about The Killing Age by Clifton Crais

Clifton Crais’s book out in UK today:“In this radical rethinking of modernity,…Crais argues that the era between 1750 and the early 1900s – seen by many as the birth of the Anthropocene – should instead be known as the Mortecene: the Age of Killing.” #academics www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clif...

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
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📣You now have until Friday 23 January to get your proposals in - we look forward to seeing many of you in Lancaster in July!✨

Out now!

I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'.

Link to the intro:
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Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇

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Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...

Opening page for the Royal Historical Society article 'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment'. Full abstract: This series of comments brings together four historians of neoliberalism, each of whom focuses on a different part of the world but whose work has implications that are transnational if not global. Quinn Slobodian reconstructs the rise of the category of neoliberalism among historians and identifies the different paths of inquiry it is generating. Priya Lal, offering an Africanist’s perspective, moves beyond the reduction of the neoliberal narrative of the continent to one of linear declension and abjection by way of structural adjustment to show continuities from the colonial era to early independence. Gary Gerstle, an Americanist by training, offers a macro take on the move from a Keynesian and social democratic order to a neoliberal one while insisting we attend to the diverse ways policies and elite neoliberal ideas are taken up by populations for whom promises of freedom may mean something different from what intellectuals intended. Finally, Tehila Sasson, a historian of modern Britain and the world, explores the left-wing features of what has come to be called neoliberalism, insisting we keep a keen eye out for unintended consequences and unlikely origins. Together, the comment offers a satellite’s eye view of a subfield reaching maturity."

This week we published 'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

With contributions from Gary Gerstle, @quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social lista.bsky.social, and @tsasson.bsky.social

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For a fortifying shot in the arm of sharp historical thinking about neoliberalism, read this (and get your students to read it) from @quinnslobodian.com @tsasson.bsky.social Priya Lal & Gary Gerstle
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“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain speakers: Deanna lyncook (queen mary & uwi cave hill) thursday, 22 december 2025, 5:30 pm (online only) https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/you-are-not-allow-yourselves-be-frightened-norman-manleys-visits-britain-transnational-care-post-war Institute of historical research black british history seminar

Kicking off our 2026 schedule with a paper! Join us next Thursday for our seminar: “You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”: Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain

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📆 Thursday 22nd January, 2026 ⏰ 17:30
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Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org

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