Liam J. Liburd

Settings on the dryer in our Canadian Airbnb imply that it can make your clothes wetter.

Home Office post with a black background and the words Access to benefits restricted to British (with a union flag as the texture for the word "British") Citizens in all caps bold font

Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?

Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.

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Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

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The Department of Politics at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social 💼📚🎓invites applications to the Politics Pathway of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP):
The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.

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Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH BLACK BRITISH HISTORY SEMINAR NACBS PARTICIPATION SEMINARS EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS: RETHINKING RACE IN MODERN BRITAIN SPEAKERS: ROB WATERS, SHAHMIMA AKHTAR, HANNAH ELIAS IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RESHAPING OF BRITISH PUBLIC LIFE, C.1970-PRESENT SPEAKERS: LIAM LIBURD LIGHTNING ROUND: THE POLITICS OF "BLACK BRITISH HISTORY": CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES, "USABLE" PASTS AND FREEDOM DREAMS SPEAKERS: OLIVIA WYATT

We will not have a seminar this month because many of our convenors will be at @thenacbs.bsky.social conference! Check out their papers on race and #BlackBritishHistory if you’ll be joining us in Montreal 🇨🇦
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A satirical poem about universities. All Staff Assembly Unlike other universities We do not have an emergency However, we must continue To take action with urgency Don't let there be rupture In trust over the new role families This is not a restructure There are always some redundancies We do not work with arms companies We work with engineering firm subsidiaries Who produce dual use technologies That kill people Some of us are paid very differently But this is very good for the university You see, the disparities in our salaries Are contributions to Diversity

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds The revew, the first to focus on the racism of the institution as a whole, found a culture and leadership determined to prevent real change The “racial harm” the Metropolitan police inflicts on black people is “institutionally defended”, with its leadership and culture protecting the force from real change, an internal review has found. The report by Dr Shereen Daniels, published on Friday, draws on internal documents and evidence, with the Met responding by accepting long-standing evidence of racism and discrimination within Britain’s biggest force. Continue reading...

Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds

In fact, relevant in two phases; Gilroy was writing this work during ”phase 2” and it continues to grow in relevance during phase 3.

Paul Gilroy’s ’postcolonial melancholia’ relevant here too, surely? For the “I remember the corned beef of my childhood“ crowd, the two wartime Britains are great, safe, and ethnically homogenous fantasy refuges from actually-existing Britain.

Adding a note to a great thread: British fascists have laid claim to Remembrance memorial culture even earlier than this; Britain‘s first self-styled fascist organisation, the British Fascisti, held marches to the cenotaph for Remembrance Day in the 1920s.

YouTube video by Pitchfork Cosmonaut A. Sivanandan on Racism Awareness Training

Found this incredible clip of A. Sivanandan on 'racial awareness training'.

The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisation This session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.

Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'.
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I used the Wiener Library quite a bit for doctoral research and never knew they had Unity Mitford's diary!

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Great to see Mukti added: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/documents?fi...

It’s definitely there in his earlier work; he was way too ready to concede - albeit not in these words - that there was a meaningful distinction in practice between the BNP’s “illegitimate” racism and ordinary “legitimate” racism. But this is a problem with a lot of scholarship on British fascism.

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

The hour is too late to luxuriate in the illusion that British racism is a matter of a small band of eccentric fascists among a majority of otherwise decent and anti- or non-racist people.

If you put up a union jack or George’s Cross in middle of a hate campaign against migrants, asylum seekers & people of colour that used those flags as branding, you knew what you were doing even if you didn’t have sufficient courage in your abysmal convictions to say it. This must be said.

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

Really detailed and thorough reporting but dismayed by the “bothsideism” about the flags. *Very few* people - even people without criminal records or neo-Nazi affiliations - who put up flags this summer did so innocently regardless of their stated motivations.

This looks incredible and is *long* overdue.

”Give me your whites, your whites,
Your huddled whites yearning to breathe white.”

Welcome to The Children of Men timeline.

Used to love visiting Buxton back when I lived in Sheffield, so sorry to see it embrace spiteful racism (although hope lies with the young).

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

"I want to revitalise my local high street through a campaign of state and street racist violence" is a line I have no patience or sympathy for; and neither should you.