Reposted by DanRadical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 19hNew collections added! • Afro-Asian Journalist magazine • Liberation Support Movement (North America) • Tricontinetal Bulletin • Communist Party of Australia photo collection (University of Queensland) • Stuart Hall Archiving Project • PDF-Arkivet (Norway) hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli... 033
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 11hI'm trying to find a source for the biographical detail on the Wikipedia page for the Marxist philosopher John Lewis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le... I've checked the references and it's not in them! And I can't find anything in the CPGB books I've got to hand... Any ideas? #skystoriansen.wikipedia.orgJohn Lewis (philosopher) - Wikipedia 110
Reposted by DanDr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.linkedin.comAVAILABILITY FOR WORKHello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ... 01729
Reposted by DanEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The latest issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (54/5) is now out. As @jich.bsky.social's book reviews editor, I would like to mention that it features the following book reviews (a 🧵) #historians #history #skystorians www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...tandfonline.comThe Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth HistoryVolume 54, Issue 5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 178
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Really really enjoyed this video essay (based on a forthcoming book from @punctumbooks.bsky.social) – a lot to think about! Video essay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgzh... Book: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...youtube.comParasocialismYouTube video by Emperor No Clothes 111
Reposted by DanTwentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dan previously contributed to Twentieth Century Communism journal as part of a special issue on Global Maoism. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2022...journals.lwbooks.co.uk‘The city is dying … The suburbs are growing … The country shrinks’: spatial Maoism and Suburban Press - Lawrence WishartHistorians have typically presented the early 1970s under-ground paper Suburban Press, a major stylistic influence on the emerge 011
Reposted by DanTwentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great to see @d-j-frost.bsky.social on the editorial board of Twentieth Century Communism journal as book reviews editor. Please get in touch with Dan if you're interested in reviewing any recently published books relating communist history (very broadly defined). 133
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Exciting news: I am joining Twentieth Century Communism (@20thccommunism.bsky.social) as book reviews editor! 🎉 Looking forward to getting stuck into commissioning – please do get in touch if there's a book that you'd like to review! 📖🖊️ More on TCC: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/page/abo...journals.lwbooks.co.ukTwentieth Century Communism: About - Lawrence WishartTwentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Twentieth Century Communism: About - Lawrence Wishart 2111
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Does anyone have any recommendations on autism/monotropism and academic writing? I've felt more aware, recently, of a kind of tension between "this is a special interest" and "this is of more general interest", and am curious about any guides to navigating that 110
Reposted by DanKatherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It was a real pleasure to contribute a piece to this fantastically interdisciplinary volume organized by Danielle Sands & Daniel Whistler, in collaboration with colleagues in the Library & Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌿 #envhist #histsci #plants www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... 02712
Reposted by Dan World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Cam West and I wrote about Althusser and Lazarus for @fracturemagazine.com, tracing out the lines of influence between the two thinkers. fracturemagazine.com/issues/althu...fracturemagazine.comAlthusser and Lazarus: Continuity or Rupture? - Fracture MagazineIf every situation is exceptional, as Althusser wrote in 1962, then shouldn’t we incorporate this into how we approach politics? Shouldn’t politics entail the construction of new categories and a new ... 021
Reposted by DanMass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive! We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK. #Skystorians massobs.org.uk/write-for-th...massobs.org.ukWrite for the archive - Mass Observation ArchiveWriting for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th... 15862
Reposted by DanEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hopefully a paperback edition will be out in 2027 @d-j-frost.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/manchesteruniversitypress.co.ukManchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicionIn solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost 0125
Reposted by DanFracture Mag @fracturemagazine.com · 02/09/2026Duncan Stuart and Cam West outline Asad Haider’s development of a new framework of emancipatory politics inspired by Sylvain Lazarus. They argue that this shift in Haider's work needs to be taken seriously and more widely transmitted: fracturemagazine.com/issues/for-a...fracturemagazine.comFor Asad - Fracture MagazineIn the last few years of his life, Haider was producing a new framework for thinking about politics. He wasn’t the only one doing this work, and this framework for thinking about politics was largely ... 053
Reposted by DanHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 25/08/2026How have different radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and move towards alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri, our current managing editor, introduces new History Workshop series called 'Radical Horizons'.historyworkshop.org.ukRadical HorizonsThis article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series called ‘Radical Horizons’. 03216
Reposted by DanInside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026London Radical Book Fair, Stanley Halls, free entry, Sun Sep 6 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/31/l... #Croydon #Events #SouthNorwood @stanleyarts.bsky.socialinsidecroydon.comLondon Radical Book Fair, Stanley Halls, free entry, Sun Sep 6C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T 188
Reposted by DanEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026On this point, here’s a selected quote from the referee report for my edited collection with @d-j-frost.bsky.social, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion’, the third volume in our series on the history of the British far left. Recognising the contribution of our volumes to the historiography. 031
Reposted by Dan World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Read Asad Haider's afterword to Mistaken Identity, republished in @fracturemagazine.com fracturemagazine.com/issues/after...fracturemagazine.comAfterword to Mistaken Identity (2021) - Fracture MagazineThis Afterword was published in 2021 by Verso for the second edition of Mistaken Identity, with the new subtitle: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology. We have chosen to republish it here because it ser... 034
Reposted by Dan World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Went long (with Cam West!) about Asad Haider and Sylvain Lazarus in @fracturemagazine.com fracturemagazine.com/issues/for-a...fracturemagazine.comFor Asad - Fracture MagazineIn the last few years of his life, Haider was producing a new framework for thinking about politics. He wasn’t the only one doing this work, and this framework for thinking about politics was largely ... 032
Reposted by DanAlfie Steer @alfiesteer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Please do check out this excellent volume, not only for my contribution on the SLP, but also @racheljcollett.bsky.social on the Merseyside Women's Liberation Movement, @owenjdowling.bsky.social on the Chile Solidarity campaign and many more! 045
Reposted by DanAlfie Steer @alfiesteer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Very pleased to see my work cited in this fantastic piece on Your Party's first year of troubled existence. Unfortuantely for its supporters, there are a lot of similarities with the problems I described in Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party in the 1990s. 031
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I just listened to this old @jacobinmag.bsky.social podcast with Asad Haider, on the Thompson/Althusser controversy – really brilliant and insightful, would thoroughly recommend www.tapesearch.com/episode/casu...tapesearch.comCasualties of History: "Are We Not Always in an Exceptional Situation?" - Jacobin Radio on TapesearchDownload and search within the podcast transcript for Casualties of History: "Are We Not Always in an Exceptional Situation?" - Jacobin Radio. Find other Jacobin Radio episodes on Tapesearch 000
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 07/08/2026In my new piece for the #MEIBlog, I draw on the work of Paolo Gerbaudo (@paologerbaudo.bsky.social), Alfie Steer (@alfiesteer.bsky.social) and the late Jonathan Dean to discuss Your Party's tumultuous first year. 120
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Always especially enjoy citing this chapter by Madeleine Davis on the origins of the British New Left, because the page numbers are so satisfyingly appropriate: 45-56 Any other sickos got a favourite set of page numbers? 🥲 link.springer.com/book/10.1057...link.springer.com1968 in EuropeA concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movement... 000
Reposted by DanMile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It is just over a year to the day since Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced the formation of a new left-wing party. In today's #MEIBlog, @d-j-frost.bsky.social charts Your Party's tumultuous formation and asks what it tells us about the future of “the Left” in Britain. t.co/GyI0GynCLp 042
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Interesting to discover that my short @redpeppermag.bsky.social "Keywords" piece on Rudi Dutschke and Raymond Williams has been cited in an academic paper on R.W. Fassbinder..! www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15... 121
Reposted by DanKatrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I benefit a lot from serendipity. It's an essential historical skill 031
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 22/07/2026My grandad has worked on a family history for a long time, so I thought I'd search the British Newspaper Archive – starting with his father, Frank Ernest Frost, a grocer in West Croydon. This article is from 1920, when he was 17. Despite selling the shop in the 1970s, their sign is still there: 291
Reposted by DanHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/07/2026🚨We’re seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. Deadline for applications: 7 August 2026. Please share in your networks!👇 11728
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Spending the week looking after this convivial cutie (and her slightly more melancholic sister) 020
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Has anyone written about the history of "[XYZ] is anti-fascist!" as a protest chant? i.e., "London is anti-fascist!", etc – I think that this is recent (2010s?) but curious as to whether anyone has specifically looked into it #skystorians 000
Reposted by DanMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026'The proposed industrial action is over plans to cut 200 jobs as the Brighton facility attempts to save £35m annually. It comes after more than 600 staff were put at risk of redundancy across academic, technical and professional services departments.'bbc.co.ukUniversity of Sussex staff vote whether to go on strike over job cutsHundreds of people face redundancy as the Brighton-based facility tries to save £35m. 24643
Reposted by DanEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Our three books on the British far left are available half price for two weeks only! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526107343/ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113665/ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/ 145
Reposted by DanCaitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Well everyone else seems to be doing it & so I will too! @manchesterup.bsky.social big summer half price sale 🥳. You can get my 'Housewives & Citizens' for just £12.50, worth it for the cover alone (in my humble opinion 😀). @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians 01711
Reposted by DanCaitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 19/06/2026📣 Come join us at @ihr.bsky.social for last @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar of 2025/26. A great paper to end the term with @ruthdav.bsky.social speaking about her forthcoming book. Book via link below: Weds 24 June: 5.30pm, in-person only. See you there @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorianshistory.ac.ukWomen's welfare activism: Everyday power and politics in twentieth-century BritainContemporary British History Seminar 0119
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Have to say that even *I* think this is a bit of a tenuous excuse to talk about Croydon www.theguardian.com/football/202... 152
Reposted by DanTom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm looking for some extra work this summer so if anyone has anything - e.g. remote research (especially London archives or Cambridge area), transcription, editing, proofing, etc, or knows of anyone looking, then feel free to let me know! 01323
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 15/06/2026So grateful to have been able to celebrate my engagement to @marypedicini.bsky.social with friends and family in sunny South London ☀️💍 I can't wait for our next steps together 💕 010
Reposted by DanEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Pretty cool that I can now showcase all my books in one post. 25712
Reposted by DanCaitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Very much looking forward to chairing our next @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar at @ihr.bsky.social on 🗓️Weds 10 June: 5.30pm (in-person only). Dr Katja Seidel will be sharing her fascinating research into gender, expertise & foreign policy. Click on the image below to book your free spot today!history.ac.ukForeign policy entrepreneurship, expertise and gender in post-war Britain: Miriam Camps at Chatham HouseContemporary British History Seminar 033
Reposted by DanThe Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The story of Crystal Palace's tumultuous season and Oliver Glasner's farewell: 🔵 Bridges rebuilt at a Soho restaurant 🔴 The players' mid-season regroup 🔵 How the Conference League galvanised the group 🔴 The role of Paddy McCarthy 📝 @mattwoosie.bsky.social FREE READ: nyti.ms/4nQWTKa 3508
Reposted by DanDan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 26/05/2026One of the biggest stories of May's elections was the Green surge. But what does that mean for the left-wing independents that showed such promise in the 2024 general election? In this @mileendinstitute.bsky.social blog, I look at the results in East London 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and...qmul.ac.ukWhat do the local elections in London tell us about the future of left-wing politics in Britain? 022
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 26/05/2026One of the biggest stories of May's elections was the Green surge. But what does that mean for the left-wing independents that showed such promise in the 2024 general election? In this @mileendinstitute.bsky.social blog, I look at the results in East London 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and...qmul.ac.ukWhat do the local elections in London tell us about the future of left-wing politics in Britain? 022
Reposted by DanMile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Earlier this month, local elections were held which changed the political landscape in London. In his latest MEI Blog, @d-j-frost.bsky.social explores how 'independent socialists' and Your Party-endorsed candidates fared in East London and what the results mean for Your Party. 🔗 t.co/09KrSnkgsJt.cohttps://www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and-opinion/items/what-do-the-local-elections-in-london-tell-us-about-the-future-of-left-wing-politics-in-britain.html 011
Reposted by DanTeam Called Palace @teamcalledpalace.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Happy Birthday to former Palace man Yannick Bolasie, who turns 37 today. 🥳 The streets of South London certainly won’t forget. 🔥 #CPFC 0191
Reposted by DanCaitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 19/05/2026📢 Roll Up! Two great papers for last two @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminars 2025/26 at @ihr.bsky.social. Click on the link below to find out more & come join us to hear Katja Seidel (10 June) & @ruthdav.bsky.social (24 June) speak about their current research. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 033
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Lovely to read this generous and thoughtful review of *In Solidarity, Under Suspicion*, by Clive Hedges for The Left Lane! theleftlane.media/learning-les... @evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social 131