Dr Priya Atwal

The first event in my Community History Hub series is this Fri! Come along to hear and share stories of protest over land/nature/#environment, and shape a new community-engaged project for Oxon & Bucks! #climate

Book a place or see our full programme: www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk/article/comm...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Wow, what an exciting job! Can we have more like this in the UK, please?

Excited to share the details of a new event series that I’ll be hosting in #Oxford this term for our Community History Hub! Exploring everything from oral history methods to the legacy of the local car plant. Book your tickets here, all are welcome! www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk/article/comm...

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
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Excited to share the details of a new event series that I’ll be hosting in #Oxford this term for our Community History Hub! Exploring everything from oral history methods to the legacy of the local car plant. Book your tickets here, all are welcome! www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk/article/comm...

£77,816 er annum. What an exciting post.

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.

A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies?

Join us on the 8 October to find out more.

@royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social

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Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!

This really shouldn't even need saying, let alone agitating for. It is a truism more than a proposition.

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Our fab Community History Hub website has just had a refresh, thanks to the lovely Laura Spence @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social!

There's lots of #localhistory talks, plays & celebrations happening in #Oxford this Sept & Oct - don't miss out on the knowledge or the fun!

www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk

Labour wants to speak for "ordinary working people". It wants to be the party of patriotism & "national renewal". It badly needs a purpose & a moral mission.

Well here it is.

It is way past time to "speak for Britain" against billionaire-backed movements that want to terrorise ordinary Britons.

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university' Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

And so it begins… is this the start of a new era for British universities, with their increasingly broken financial models? In any case, good luck to the new ’London & South East’ university!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Briefing launch - Town and Gown: the role of universities in city economies - Centre for Cities Join Centre for Cities for an introduction to new analysis on the role of universities in their city's economy.

Centre for Cities will present findings from its recent analysis of universities' local economic impacts and answering your questions online tomorrow 📆
www.centreforcities.org/event/briefi...

With that, best of luck to teachers and university staff handling clearing and the start of term.

Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be) Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”

The UK is a country with a rapidly ageing population that needs vast numbers of jobs filling. For it to crash all migration downwards because the public are enraged about small boats is the definition of national madness. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...

How do Britons see Reform UK, ahead of their 2025 conference? | YouGov While Britons tend to feel Reform UK are dominating the political agenda, just 24% believe they’d do a good job of running the country

This 'Reform are inevitable' narrative is rubbish. Fewer than a quarter of voters think they'd do a good job. Almost all their policies are hated. Their leader isn't liked. Even when the focus is on migration most reputable polls give them only a small overall majority.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Teenage period pain linked to higher risk of chronic pain in Teenagers who experience moderate or severe period pain are significantly more likely to develop chronic pain in adulthood, including pain beyond the pelvis, according to a major new study from the

Pleased to see this compelling research study coming out of Oxford on teenage period pain & its potential long-term impacts. As someone who has long suffered with painful periods, I welcome such research & hope to see medical interventions coming out of it too!

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Just a shout out to #skystorians #academicsky #historians #historyteacher #18c #c18 #georgians #history of #Caribbean #slavery people that my new book #Heiresses is out now. You can read more about it here: www.heiresses.co.uk/about-heires...

A grim week of migrant-bashing, and for what? People will suffer – and Labour will gain absolutely nothing | Diane Taylor British politicians’ rhetoric has become increasingly shouty and hateful. And now the home secretary has joined the chorus, says writer Diane Taylor

Such important truth written in this article, but will Keir Starmer and the govt listen and take a more constructive course on the immigration debate? Or will we continue to see more division and hate-mongering in our communities?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A couple of weeks after posting this, I’ve just seen via the @royalhistsoc.org newsletter that the BL are running a training session for students on the East India Company & India Office archives! Really great idea for students planning their theses this term:

royalhistsoc.org/calendar/int...

3/3 It’s terrible that there has been so little discussion about the impact on students/research to date, & that recovery for the BL has been so slow. Govt needs to prioritise better cyber security for such key research repositiories & factor this into assessment for #REF2029.

2/3 It was hard enough for me, as an unfunded PhD student, to juggle my studies & paid work to support myself, with the aim of completing my thesis within 3.5 yrs (to avoid extra fees!). I don’t know what I would have done faced with such delays/obstacles at the BL, which was a key site for my work

I was at the British Library on Fri & missed their online Archives & Manuscript catalogue so much. It was so handy for searching collections & planning research trips - full of useful info & saving research time. I feel bad for PhD students navigating huge collections without such tools! 1/3

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

As I said on day one, the first day that the Times broke the story about the gangs: the idea that the police were too petrified to investigate sexual offences by Asian men because they might be perceived as racist did not pass *the laugh test*, never mind the smell test.

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

This week’s column is on people losing their minds, and insulting the public’s intelligence, over Mamdani.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely! It's horrifying to think about.

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover

A must-read piece by Suresh Grover, one of the leaders of the Southall Youth Movement, on why it’s so dangerous to proscribe Palestine Action. He even points out that Keir Starmer once defended other activists for v similar tactics back in 2003!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So looking forward to chairing this discussion about Nicole Ranganath's wonderful new book! It's all about the music-making of Sikh/Punjabi migrant women in California. Hear some of their songs & join me in conversation with Nicole in Oxford, on 13 June!

Register here: forms.office.com/e/wpDPzC37E8