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Agnieszka Sobocinska

@asobocinska.bsky.social
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Professor of Global History at King’s College London. Histories of development, non-elite politics, Australia & Asia. Books: ‘Saving the World?’ (CUP, 2021) & ‘Visiting the Neighbours’ (UNSW, 2014). Next: ‘The World vs the World Bank’

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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m proud to have been part of this brilliant experiment! Genuinely co-written (TWELVE CO-AUTHORS!), these pieces explore Women and Development in 20th C Asia and Africa. Together we took steps that wouldn’t have been possible alone. Have a look!
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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next to the Introduction and the Afterword, the Arenas comprise our discussions on Chronologies, Scales and Sources. @jtschurenev.bsky.social @mahaali.bsky.social @kirstorian.bsky.social @asobocinska.bsky.social @rosalindparr.bsky.social @clr-nicolas.bsky.social
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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After two years of inspiring collaboration, our ‘Arenas in Global History’ on ‘Women and Development in Asia and Africa, 1930–1980’ was published as First View. I am very grateful to my 12 co-authors for for taking part in this collaborative writing project. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hear about Julie Kalman’s amazing work!
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
YES! I bloody love Asterix
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🚨ONE MORE WEEK till our book launch for Military Humanitarianism!🚨 @briandrohan.bsky.social 5.30pm — 17th June — Bristol We’ll be joined by fantastic speakers to celebrate, @asobocinska.bsky.social, Grace Huxford and @bennetthuw.bsky.social 🙌 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/military-h...
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'Military Humanitarianism' Book Launch
Join us in Bristol to celebrate the launch of our edited volume 'Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations & Armed Forces'
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 14/05/2026
Today, we launch a new featured series called Rethinking Internationalisms. In this introductory article, Ria Kapoor, Jessica Reinisch, Margot Tudor and Daniel Laqua ask, how can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered?
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Rethinking Internationalisms
How can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered? This article introduces the new 'Rethinking Internationalisms' featured series.
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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Roundtable on Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire, with Susan Pedersen, @asobocinska.bsky.social, @emma-edin.bsky.social; and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, chaired by @colmpm.bsky.social 5.30pm, 14 May at IHR @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Book launch of Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
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Radical Histories - Manchester University Press
The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...
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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
really chuffed to be included on this LA times best books to read in April and among SUCH great titles. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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10 books to read in April, including Jay McInerney's latest and a Rolling Stones biography
This spring's most anticipated titles include a Rolling Stones biography, new Emma Straub fiction, wartime tales, a long-awaited finale from Jay McInerney and more. Catch four of the authors live at t...
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We have organised a series of exciting events throughout March for our Rethinking Internationalism project, including an in-person conference at Birkbeck on 19th-20th. For more details and information on tickets, see our website: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...
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March 'Rethinking Internationalism' Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
Join us for a series of events throughout March 2026 to conclude our 'Rethinking Internationalism' grant project, including an in-person conference hosted at Birkbeck, a public lecture, and a publishi...
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Rethinking Internationalism conference
This conference presents exciting new research on the role and nature of internationalism and international organisations in modern history.
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
📣 CFP for a workshop I’m co-convening with UGM as part of the DEVHIST project in Yogya on 8-10 September 2026. Travel support is available for Indonesian and intl speakers. Please share!!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Published next month in our Modern British Histories series (though available earlier online via Cambridge Core), Matthew Hilton's Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development. Essential reading for our times. #Skystorians
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Charity After Empire
Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.
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Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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...
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Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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Kristie Patricia Flannery @thehistoriann.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
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Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫 Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY press.anu.edu.au/publications... Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
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Digitised Archive @digitisedarchive.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Why book a flight—or a reading room? I take the train, retrieve the files, and deliver bespoke scans from UK archives, so you can stay in your armchair and focus on your research. 🗂️ digitisedarchive.co.uk #Twitterstorians #MedEd #historyofscience #MedHist #histSTM #historyofmedicine #scicomm
Cartoon image split into two halves. On the left, a cheerful man with dark hair and a beard sits at a desk in an archive, holding a camera and surrounded by a stack of archival papers. On the right, a relaxed academic sits in an armchair at home, using a laptop and sipping a drink. Caption below reads: “The art of doing archival work without leaving your armchair.
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Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation
In 1961, West Papuan leaders declared their intent to become an independent nation in opposition to both Dutch colonial control and Indonesia’s campaign to incorporate the territory into its Republ...
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...
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Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) at King's College London
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jo...
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hey that’s my file! But HOW do you make them look so pretty?
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
HUGE thanks to every single presenter/chair/attendee for making the past two days so inspiring and friendly. It was brilliant to catch up with old friends and to make so many new ones! More to come from our AHRC Rethinking Internationalism project so watch this space…
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A brilliant start to our AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms project, with generous and thoughtful contributions. Daniel Laqua did an amazing job with our first outing, and he, @drmargottudor.bsky.social , @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and I look forward to continuing these conversations. Stay tuned!
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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#Skystorians #AcademicSky #History We’re delighted to be supporting the AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past’, which is taking place at @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week. Programme here research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
On Thursday!
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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Excited that the first article of my ongoing research project on the history of Indian women in rural development has been published in Comparativ. If you cannot access it and are interested to read, let me know. @unierfurt.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social www.comparativ.net/v2/article/v...
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Gendered Development Work and Non-State Primary Healthcare Provisions: The Skippo Medical Van Scheme in Rural India, c. 1940s to mid-1970s
This article focuses on gendered rural development work in late colonial and early post-colonial India. Next to the question of livelihood generation and education, the issue of health and hence of wo...
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Looking forward to this one :)
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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We recently had the pleasure of @sandrinekott.bsky.social's company at Birkbeck - and now I'm thrilled that her new edited book is out in the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series, open access & free to download www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
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International Organizations and the Cold War
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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Here is the English translation of my essay on South Asian humanitarian aid under colonial rule. It provides some insights of my forthcoming book on this theme with CUP this summer. www.voluntariness.org/giving-as-an...
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Giving as an Act of Voluntariness? - voluntariness.org
Blog post by Maria Franke on motives, circumstances and challenges of voluntary humanitarian aid in late colonial India.
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is ridiculously good company to be in. Thanks @susieprotschky.bsky.social!
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Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃
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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is a great idea: a developmental editing workshop, run by the Journal of Global History. But, it's for colleagues for whom English is not a first language - and who work in institutions outside Western Europe and North America. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Journal of Global History development editing workshop | H-Net
CFP: Journal of Global History development editing workshop As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, the Journal of Global History is hosting an online development w...
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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...
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Call for Proposals: Bloomsbury Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
We invite contributions to a new handbook on the Histories of Internationalism, to be published by Bloomsbury.
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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I am very pleased to share the @h-diplo.bsky.social Roundtable of _Catastrophic Diplomacy_. Thanks to Jana Lipman, @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, Davide Rodogno, Ian Seavey, @laurenfturek.bsky.social, Shoon Murray, and Megan Black for their generous reviews! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It was a real privilege to deliver the Reese Memorial Lecture at Kings College London back in October. Thanks to @asobocinska.bsky.social for facilitating. The video is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UN7...
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"Tom Mboya's Australia" - 2024 Reese Memorial Lecture by Dr Jon Piccini
YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The humanities and social sciences panels of the Marsden Fund DISBANDED?!? are you absolutely fucking kidding
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My project, DEVHIST, will focus on how aid workers and Global South communities renegotiated development projects at the point of implementation, to better understand the material outcomes of development aid. I’m so thrilled this was funded and can’t wait to get started www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-s...
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Three SSPP researchers win prestigious EU grants
£4.5m of ERC grants will go to researchers in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy
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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Will be very interested to see this next fall. It’s a welcome departure for the IWM exhibition hall and could set the standard for a new public history of British decolonization www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
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Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus
At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Usual caveats apply go.bsky.app/Gaka15u
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Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
And it’s open access 🏆
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