Rebecca Goldsmith

Fifth lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/self-a... - about self-assertion, identity and rights talk from the '50s to the '70s, and clashes over it from the late '60s. Final lecture on those continuing clashes & whether neoliberalism overrode them this Thursday 5pm Exam Schools Oxford.

Race on Screen | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Congratulations to @christinegrandy.bsky.social for the publication of Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain, the latest title in our Cambridge Modern British Histories series. Paperback a snip at £28. #Skystorians

Young Refugees to Britain in the early Twentieth Century at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Young Refugees to Britain in the early Twentieth Century at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fantastic funded PhD opportunity here in the School of Humanities at Reading - please share widely! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Dr Rebecca Orr wins 2025 Duncan Tanner Essay Prize. Orr is a historian of postcolonial migration and research fellow at King's College, Cambridge.

Rebecca Orr, research fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social, wins Duncan Tanner Essay Prize for outstanding scholarship in modern British history 👏👏

Orr was awarded by @mbhjournal.bsky.social for her article: The Growth of the British Private Security Industry & the Ends of Empire, 1960-74

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Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Good to see this up!

In this piece itself, I argue the problem is not *just* Keir Starmer.

FindAPhD : PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield Apply for a PhD: PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield

Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

I really enjoyed reviewing @kitkowol.bsky.social's "Blue Jerusalem" - an excellent new study of WW2-era British Conservatism, highlighting both its intellectual vitality and its practical political impact

Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social

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Thanks so much Eunice!

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!

Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

First lecture now available online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/founda... - if you’re in Oxford tomorrow, 29th, come hear the second live with drinks reception afterwards.

The James Ford Lectures in British History The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Prof @petermandler.bsky.social will give the James Ford Lectures 2026 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Peter Mandler will chart the spread & use of the language of social science into everyday life in 20th-century Britain.

Thursdays, 5pm
Weeks 1-6 Hilary Term

🔗 www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

Thank you!

and once again: you can pre order here www.amazon.co.uk/No-Second-Ch...

So pleased to be part of this, reflecting on the fraught place of disability in Labour's history, distant and recent

Progressive politics, trust, and the ‘good life’ 08 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Goldsmith08 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Goldsmith.pdf79 KBdownload-circle The Starmer administration has been widely criticised for failing to articulate a positive vision of change. In ...

FREE TO READ: Rebecca Goldsmith (@beccagold.bsky.social) argues that post-war Labour governments suceeded electorally by channelling voters' desire for the "good life", and warns the contemporary Labour Party against underestimating public idealism

Volume 33, Issue 3-4 A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4

Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond

It’s been a real treat to help with this issue. Huge credit to @morganj0nes.bsky.social and @neilwarner.bsky.social for bringing it together. There are some great free-to-read pieces (including Neil’s excellent article on anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism), but you should subscribe for the full thing!

Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026

Deadline: 1 May 2026

Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).

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The new edition of @renewaljournal.bsky.social is one of the most exciting yet, featuring essays from four Labour MPs, as well as from some of the sharpest writers and academics from across the wider left.

Subscribe now to get the print edition delivered straight to your doorstep!

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We're putting the finishing touches on the next issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, which is a double issue about Labour's time in power.

Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

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Reclaiming Britain: The nation against ethno-nationalism | IPPR Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to progress” that deporting black and brown people living

Parth Patel and Nick Garland essay on national identity and ethnonationalism for @ippr.org

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This destruction at Essex isn’t going to result in an improved learning or working environment. It will ossify research, it will diminish student learning environments, it will be catastrophic for working conditions.

Hard to see what the outcome will be aside from something not like a university.

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

That’s really kind Tim, thank you! Hope to catch up next time I’m in town

For those in Oxford, I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the Modern British History seminar! Come along to hear some of the findings from my recently completed PhD thesis on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class”, 1931-51’.