Margot Tudor

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

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...

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/

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...

"writing about the United Nations is to become a pedant," @drmargottudor.bsky.social says, and um actually, why am I being read like this??

Okay anyway, so the thing about the Soviet typists at UNHQ in 1964 specifically was-

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Check out my responses - along with other UN historians - about why we study the UN (and why you should too)

Men aren’t hot like Robert Redford anymore

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Back from a lovely week in Vaxjo for @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social conference on global history with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social and Daniel Laqua. I presented some new work on anti-UN peacekeeping protests on a double panel for our ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ project 🌍

This is who the Labour gov is arresting.

This is who the Labour government calls terrorists.

Hundreds more of them.

www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

This seems to be an instructive case: when legacy media appropriate the aesthetics of #MemeFascism (even if with critical intent), they make themselves into a vehicle for MAGA propaganda. The memefied brains behind the DHS account correctly recognized this as a perfect recruitment poster
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What have been the best/most effective/meaningful environmental changes in 20thC Britain, in your view? I'm writing a new unit & have lots of disasters, decline, and conflicts; but I don't think it's been all bad. Some egs. of positive changes - intro of National Parks; rise of green politics...

not academic at all but some personal positives: rewilding/tree planting becoming more mainstream, solar panel grants (rip), payment charge for plastic bags, reintroduction of wild animals (red kites, beavers, bison!!), allotments being a groovy thing :)

Headline from The Intercept: "Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless -- ​ Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say." September 3 2025. By Nick Turse

This truth bears repeating, again and again.

theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...

Yay!! Fantastic news :)

in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...

YouTube video by University of Exeter Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

Morocco using economic clout to strengthen grip on disputed Western Sahara territory Morocco is entrenching its control of Western Sahara, or what it calls the ‘Southern Provinces’.

Thanks to @us.theconversation.com for giving @victorkattan.bsky.social and I the chance to write about the #WesternSahara dispute amid changes in the UK policy, the investment race ahead of #FIFA2030 World Cup, and Trump's renewed disregard for international law
theconversation.com/morocco-usin...

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

UK gov: we want to build vast new data centres because something something AI and never mind the environmental cost.

Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!

Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄

By my count this makes 5 out of 12 authors on the Polari First Book longlist who have withdrawn. It's hard to understate the moral courage this involves, esp for folk launching their first book into the world. As so often, those with the most to lose end up showing the most moral fibre. Solidarity x

International aid agencies hold secret collaboration meeting with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation The meeting flies in the face of previous public statements from top humanitarian officials describing the GHF as “unacceptable” and “disturbing”.

Oh this is scandalous.

“Senior international aid officials have met with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and discussed collaborating with the US- and Israeli-backed group” despite many of them publicly criticising GHF.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...

Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance Edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb New Forward by Greg Thomas Yellow background with black sketch of bird, flowers, sun, and four people.

Preorder the newly reissued ENEMY OF THE SUN: POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE (Seven Stories Press) from us. All proceeds to Sameer.

It was originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of SNCC and is finally being reissued!

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so, so well deserved!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?

We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.

Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!

www.historyworkshop....

Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.