Margot Tudor

for those of you in/near Bristol: I'll be speaking there on Dec 2 on the rise and fall of proportionality in US government military-legal thinking - please come if you're around.

www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

Will be teaching in London sadly :(

Today! www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Less than a week until our online conference on 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' - make sure you have your eventbrite tickets to not miss out: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! The Institute of Historical Research’s History Lab is excited to announce the call for papers for the Olivette Otele Prize for the 2025/26 academic year. The prize offers the chance for fast-tracked publication of an article and a cash prize of £250 and is open to Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines, exploring any place or period.

Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 400 words for a 40 minute paper by Friday 28th November 2025 to ihrhistorylab@gmail.com. Timeline: Abstract deadline of no more than 400 words due by 28th November 2025 Shortlisted scholars will be notified by Friday 19th December 2025 and asked to submit a full paper of no more than 8000 words by Friday 27th February The winner will be announced by the end of March 2026

Prize and Recognition The winner will receive a £250 cash prize, will be invited to speak at History Lab’s annual conference in summer 2026, and to submit their paper to Historical Research, the leading generalist historical journal and flagship publication of the Institute of Historical Research. Shortlisted scholars will receive a £30 book voucher and the opportunity to present their research at a History Lab seminar.

About the Prize The Olivette Otele Prize was created in 2020 in response to the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report’ which highlighted racial inequality in the field of history. The prize was named after the UK’s first Black woman history professor and was designed to both raise participants’ profiles as well as financially reward labour involved in academic research. We look forward to reading your applications!

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26!

Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions!

📆Key dates:

- Abstracts due on 28th November
- Notifications on 19th December
- 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb

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Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Graphic shows % of universities undertaking various cost cutting measures, comparing spring 2024 with spring 2025. Course closures, cutting optional modules, compulsory redundancies, and department closures have all surged

I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow

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this is a sector crisis *created* by higher education policy. politicians looking at it like “oh naughty universities they are doing too many diverse things” as if this wasn’t exactly what the policies encouraged for years. see also overseas recruitment, building projects

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Extremely excited for this, and what a beautiful poster design!

I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️

Everyday Diplomats – Simple Book Publishing Around the world, movements in support of East Timor (Timor-Leste) during the 24-year Indonesian occupation made a diplomatic difference. This book tells some of their stories.

Solidarity activists with Timor-Leste (East Timor) during the period of Indonesian military occupation (1975-99) were involved in a form of diplomacy. It was messy and often loud. Yet the movement often proved influential in shaping both government and Timorese actions. New open access book 👇

For centuries, Western powers have sought to ‘fix’ African economies. Shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, Bronwen Everill's Africonomics traces how these interventions have repeatedly failed to deliver, and highlights Africa’s own approaches to economic life: https://bit.ly/47aBrcJ

when u realise that u actually have to do the revisions on an article that you’ve waited months for and been dying to get out into the world

I’ll be wittering on at this!

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

we had eng lit and lang at my grammar school and there was a perception of lit being the 'hard' one and lang as 'easy', although god knows who thinks eng grammar is easy

This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).

📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social

cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...

I recommend listening to Hilary Mantel’s Reith lectures on your way to teach to make you feel inspired/inadequate in equal measure 🙏

the BEST compliment!!!

I am mostly done with the archival material I used for my book The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transfomation of International Order, and so I am putting as much of these materials as I can online, where they can be used by other scholars: www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi...

Graph titled: Black people experience police misconduct at six times the rate of white people

Black people disproportionately experience police misconduct – including slurs, bias, and sexual harassment – during encounters with police

Is this really what it means for police to serve & protect?

Bezoar | Guadalupe Nettel | Granta Magazine ‘To see our own flaws reflected in the person we share our lives with is an unbearable experience.’ New writing by Guadalupe Nettel. Translated by Rahul Bery.

From the archive, 2015: fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rahul Bery.

‘I’m sure these details, important to me, are totally irrelevant to whoever’s reading this fucking diary.’

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London friends: please come along to my talk in a couple of weeks. I’ll be talking about some of the ideas from my next project. Would love to see you there (or online)!

Our 3rd Rethinking Internationalism conference, online, will be on "Blindspots and buzzwords in Internationalism" on 5 & 6 Nov. Lively discussion with an amazing line-up of researchers, do come along!

All welcome, sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Save the date! Delighted that @emmakluge.bsky.social will give our first Centre for Internationalism lunchtime seminar on "Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific", 30 Oct, 1-2pm, Birkbeck Central Building rm407. Message for Teams link if you want to join online

New on advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"

by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973* Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

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This event is the third conference as part of our AHRC-funded 'Rethinking History' grant. For more info about our upcoming and past events, see: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/