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3/3 When Reform UK talk about policies to prevent UK school kids being “taught to hate their country”, ironically enough, they’re inspired by this Eastern European’s anti-liberalism.
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To this doleful list we must now add Derby and Lincoln, so that's ten universities making redundancies. In a week. Ridiculous and pitiful.
11.04.2025 08:07 — 👍 46 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 1
University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...
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Out now! Part 1 of a double podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian @marcusrediker.bsky.social. Pirates fought every colonial empire, and created their own ways of living free from authority. Listen here and support us on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/e103-p...
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Front cover of Vanished featuring an ornate frame around a nineteenth-century natural history print. In the foreground are a fossilized mastodon, Asian elephant with a turbaned man on his back, and a Native and settler figure. In the background is a mountainous landscape with a river running through it. The sky is framed by leaves and features a lone passenger pigeon, as well as the author and book title.
Advance Reviews for Vanished. ‘Illuminating and disturbing in equal measure. A poignant and powerfully written account of the intellectual revolution that birthed the concept of extinction; a concept deployed to both justify and animate colonialism and even extermination. A vital and important book -- David Olusoga A marvellous, troubling, moving and important book lit with hope, Vanished is an intellectually acute history of both the idea and the reality of extinction. In a series of fascinating examples ranging from the fates of entire peoples to the remains of a single bird in a museum, Qureshi illumines how our ideas of extinction have been forged and shaped by myriad things, from the intellectual debates of eighteenth-century naturalists to the brutal history of colonialism and the political context of the Cold War. I learned so much from Vanished and am so grateful for it -- Helen Macdonald A compelling homage to living and extinct beings, Qureshi's masterpiece is a superbly written, urgent and heart racing volume. Unweaving the threads of centuries of teleological explanations, imperial scientific approaches and offering a new path to understanding mass extinction is a stroke of genius. Vanished is enthralling, devastating and yet empowering -- Olivette Otele One of our most innovative historians guides us with grace, humility and conviction through the daunting, tangled thickets of species extinction and human extermination. Qureshi warns us that scientific advancement and enlightenment are not necessarily compatible but encourages us that they can be -- Alan Lester
Launch events now sorted for Manchester, London, and Cambridge, and online in June and July. I have a bit of space to do more so now is a good time to ask. Otherwise, more details about the events and fellow speakers soon. For now, you can preorder Vanished here.
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To recap, the government’s own analysis shows its cuts would leave:
250,000 people in poverty by 2030—including 50,000 children.
1 in 5 families with a disabled member worse off.
3.2 million people £1,720 worse off.
They must abandon these cruel plans.
The people who deal with the effects of bad policy know this is going to get bad 👇🏻
26.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 29 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Green MPs Sian Berry, Adrian Ramsay, Carla Denyer and Ellie Chowns stand behind a giant set of scales. On one side is a heavy bag labelled 'wealth tax' and on the other side is a light bag labelled 'welfare cuts.' Behind the MPs is a crowd of Green Party supporters holding placards saying 'Real Hope, Real Change' and 'Rebalance the Economy'.
Today I took a message to Rachel Reeves at the Treasury: it's time to rebalance the economy.
A #WealthTax on multi-millionaires and billionaires would raise £24billion - nearly 5 times as much as the government is trying to save by taking support away from disabled people.
Hooray! Keywords is working again this morning, so if you want to look up the possible reason this cow was called 'Moor' you can do. See entry 'Blackamoor/Moor'
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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The PIP assessment is already gruelling and it often isn’t awarded to those who need it.
Now, new eligibility rules will shut off vital support from up to 1.2 million disabled people.
I’m urging the government to drop this policy.
Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
Olive Morris in her squat in the 1970s. She is a black woman with a short fro, wearing a big fluffy coat as she tries to keep warm with a one bar fire. Photo by Neil Kenlock.
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #London 🗃️
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Not a single item on BBC News last night but we had day 2 of a story about a tourist in Australia scaring wombat.
15.03.2025 08:51 — 👍 158 🔁 74 💬 3 📌 1Extra sorry to be missing the showcase this year!
15.03.2025 13:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m doing two things for the BA summer showcase, but looking forward to this session even more: ‘Number 11: Know Your Place: A whistlestop tour of the extraordinary yet underappreciated landscape and cultural histories of Birmingham, as seen from its iconic circular Number 11 bus.’
15.03.2025 13:07 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Can I borrow this story for teaching about race in the UK? I’d like to pair it with the story of my mother confusing staff when she gave birth to my brother in Slough. They couldn’t figure out where she was from but assumed southern Europe.
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People with learning difficulties from across the capital have delivered a powerful call to the government over threatened cuts to disability benefits, and warned they could take “drastic” action if ministers do not listen to their concerns.
15.03.2025 08:00 — 👍 29 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Come to learn more about research today and how this connects to the determination of those who have long studied this topic. Stay to immerse yourself in a performance by artist Anni Domingo about Mary Prince.
Free but registration required.
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Text at the top of the poster: Who was Charles Wotton? Why do we not know who he was? OR anything about the Racist Riots of 1919? The middle: collage of pictures including portraits of three Black men in the early 20th century, a group photo of Black men from the mid 20th century and two archival documents. Text at the bottom of the poster: Find out with Dr Kristy Warren, Senior Lecturer of Black History, University of Lincoln. Weds 5th March 2025, 2 pm Think Tank Symbols: Knowledge is Power Programme, University of Lincoln and New City College.
Yesterday, I visited Knowledge is Power at Hackney BSix, a programme run by History Teacher Lucy Capes. This evening, I’ll be discussing this vital programme on a roundtable about the state of Black British history in 2025 with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social and Rob Waters at the @ihr.bsky.social
06.03.2025 09:57 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory
Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025
🗓️ 6th March
⏰ 17:30
📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01
www.history.ac.uk/events/black...
The charity Magpie Project based in Newham provides support to mums and young children in unsafe and insecure housing, and advocates for their rights. They are running a “no child housed without a kitchen” campaign; sign the petition here to support them themagpieproject.org/hope-for-a-h...
01.03.2025 20:18 — 👍 46 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0A wonderful book by a wonderful historian. Worth reading for anyone interested in modern debates about race, nation, and empire.
A huge congratulations to Shahmima!
I look forward to reading this!
27.02.2025 10:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My book - Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain - is out today! Here is a thread I made earlier of extraordinary facts about the city's history to get everyone excited.
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Want to know how our community-curated exhibition came to life?
This feature dives into our approach to co-creation, the #CommunityCurators who shaped Inside/Outside and All In Between exhibition, and how we’re building a #MigrationMuseum with and for the community.
📖 Read it here: bit.ly/3EOwJpe
We are delighted to offer 12 PGR and ECR bursaries for people presenting at our 2025 conference!
⏰Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025
🌟Bursary: Free registration and £220 towards costs of accommodation & travel
For more information and to apply: socialhistory.org.uk/events/bursa...
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An image which gives details of the free online training session, 'Researching migration and refugee narratives' taking place on the 20th March 2025 from 14.00-15.30 GMT - to attend one can sign up here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/researching-migration-and-refugee-narratives
Interested in researching migration and refugee narratives? This online research training session will introduce participants to a wealth of resources and is free to attend.
🗓 20 March 2025
🕰 14:00-15:30 BST
🖥 Online
Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC
