I can heartily recommend Laura's brilliant new article - innovative, creative and hopeful!
07.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks mate! ✊💕
07.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.
04.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 268 🔁 99 💬 12 📌 2
This will be great!!
06.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
03.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 51 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
I'd love to!
25.09.2025 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Joel & I talking to Chris Browne about friendship, reimagining the world, & fighting the far right
Radicals in Conversation 📻
open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...
25.09.2025 10:47 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
NEXT WEEK! Come and hear @samwetherell.bsky.social and me chat about radical pasts & radical futures💥
23.09.2025 09:21 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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19.09.2025 14:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When and where was Britain’s radical tradition?
A discussion explores Britain’s radical politics through global, anti-colonial, and transnational networks, launching two books rethinking history’s local myths.
Myself and the amazing @lauracforster.bsky.social are doing a joint event to launch our books in York. Come to learn about Liverpool, the aftershocks of the Paris Commune and the new kinds of histories our present crisis demands! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
02.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
All historians should read this jaw dropping interview as a case study in moral and political decrepitude. Evidence if any more were needed that the accrual of massive amounts of evidence about the past does not automatically engender a critical reflection on the present.
21.08.2025 08:38 — 👍 536 🔁 175 💬 16 📌 11
Thanks Stuart!
20.08.2025 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Full text here:
20.08.2025 19:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Paris Commune in Britain reviewed in the TLS by the wonderful @mauricejcasey.com
20.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Alexia! ✊ Hope all is well with you!
19.08.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lighthouse | Friends In Common: Forster & White on Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities
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⚡️TODAY⚡️
@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak at Lighthouse for @edfringe.bsky.social 2025!
🗓️Wed, Aug 13
⏰1 pm
📍@Lighthousebks
lighthousebookshop.com/events/frien...
13.08.2025 06:54 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Lighthouse | Friends In Common: Forster & White on Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities
Getting Event Ticket Data
⚡️BOOK EVENT⚡️
@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak at Lighthouse for @edfringe.bsky.social 2025!
🗓️Wed, Aug 13
⏰1 pm
📍@Lighthousebks
lighthousebookshop.com/events/frien...
06.08.2025 07:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Laura C. Forster and Joel White on new book Friends in Common: The Skinny
We chat with Laura C. Forster and Joel White about their book Friends in Common, the intersection between friendship and organising, and why our intimate lives are political.
"When we do affinity politics, when we work non-hierarchically, it’s all about friendship"
@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social discuss their book Friends in Common – out now on @plutopress.bsky.social
30.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
29.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 1663 🔁 518 💬 20 📌 11
Notes from the road
A book tour, some songs, some lists.
substack.com/home/post/p-... Friends in Common on tour! Thanks so much to the Lubberfiend, @thebookishtype.bsky.social, the CCA, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social, @1in12club.bsky.social, Nan Moor's, @junobooks.bsky.social & East Bristol Books for having us!
29.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
TONIGHT!
25.06.2025 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💥BOOK EVENT💥
East Bristol Books will host @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social, presenting and discussing their new book Friends in Common
🗓️Fri, June 20
⏰7 pm
📍East Bristol Books
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
23.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Freelance historian with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. PhD from Cambridge, hot takes from the depths of a radio archive somewhere.
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com
Babiesinmuseums.com
Modern Scottish public history. Curated by Dr Charlie Lynch, hosted by the National.
(In development)
Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
https://elenamary.co.uk
feminist, political sociologist, trans ally: nature, walking, history, politics, dogs 🏳️⚧️ 🌱🐝 ☕️
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th
Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
Queer librarian in France. she/her
Associate Professor, University of Birmingham. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Reader in History (Queen's University, Belfast).
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" (coming Apr 2026, Cornell University Press).
PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”.
Sec. of UCU branch.
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Academic researching gender-based violence, trauma, and refugees. Cat aficionado, caffeinated whirlwind, and amateur archaeologist. 🏳️🌈
Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • ‘Retired’ Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson *Visionary Fuel* https://linktr.ee/katelaity
