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Dan Feather

@danieljfeather.bsky.social
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Historian interested in cultural diplomacy, the 'British world', and southern Africa. Attempting to write a book about British-Rhodesian cultural relations during UDI while also examining British policy towards the South African Bantustans

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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Showtime for my first lecture of the new academic year to our new first years
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We briefly discuss the Trump administration's policy towards SA in the context of the Western Cape secessionist movement
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As the US has announced travel restrictions on South Africans justified my the myth of anti-white racism, this seems an opportune moment to re-share the article I co-wrote with @paulanderson88.bsky.social and Tom Phillips www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Western Cape independence movement: motivations, justifications and critique
In recent years, the Western Cape (WC) independence movement has garnered significant interest, both nationally and globally. This article focuses on the main proponents of independence and their m...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
X is a major national security vulnerability that UK government and politicians continue to prop up.
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Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Writing the intro to a monograph is very hard, you want to say so much and ensure you cite all the relevant literature, but actually have very little space to do this when you also need to introduce the topic, contextualise key events, and say soemthing about your sources/aporoach
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Editing the final chapter of my next book, which analyses UK policy towards educational contact with Rhodesia in the 70s. HMG officials engaged with exiled student groups in the UK, the ANC, ZAPU & ZANU so I'm hoping re-reading this will help me get to grips with the tension between these groups
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Writing about trade unions and anti-colonial nationalist movements is one of the few tasks which involves getting to grips with more acronyms than university senior management like to us
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I don’t think any of the Sun, the Mail, the Tories or Morgan McSweeney wanted to create a country that’s perpetually one bad headline from a mob of violent scumbags burning down a building full of black people. Nonetheless, we should recognise that they have in fact done that and they aren’t sorry.
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Followed by @paulanderson88.bsky.social
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@andrekeil.bsky.social kicking off the @ljmuhistory.bsky.social and @ljmuirp.bsky.social summer university
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Great lunch too
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Great start to the #SAHS2026 conference at the University of Zimbabwe. I’ll be presenting on Britain’s relations with the university in its earlier incarnations from 1963-1980
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Great to be back in South Africa en route to the Southern African History Association conference in Zimbabwe. However, depressing that the news cycle is filled with similarly nasty xenophobia to Britain, and that so many people you speak to blame most of the country’s ills on migrants
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The fact that so many otherwise nice people have a massive blind spot when it comes to racism/xenophobia is depressing. Even more so that they are willing to believe tropes at the expense of actual evidence. More proof we live in the age of vibe politics where opinion is more important than reality
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It is definitely time for this. Politicians fanning the flames of racial hatred also need to be brought to justice
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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Very exciting to see Senior Lecturer in American History Malcolm Craig's history-based role-playing games out in the wild. Watch out for a special launch event when the new academic year starts in September! FYI @ljmuimpact.bsky.social, @ljmuresearch.bsky.social, and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Takes some balls to write an op ed demanding the Government reject net zero DURING A THIRTY DEGREE UNPREDEDENTED HEATWAVE IN MAY
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Paraphrasing Enoch Powell was clearly a great move by Starmer…
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Cycling tour of Joburg with Microadventures
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Pleased to see that the Africa@LSE blog have published my article on Helen Zille's unconventional campaign to become the Mayor of Johannesburg blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
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Performance politics, colonial controversies, and the race for Johannesburg - Africa at LSE
An unorthodox campaign strategy, and institutional failings might cause a political upset in Johannesburg, writes Daniel Feather. Veteran South African politician Helen Zille continues to make ‘a spla...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is Higher Education now. It's a very dark time, and enormously toxic, so look out for both others and yourself. All solidarity to colleagues.
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It feels like Democratic Alliance Chairperson and Mayoral Candidate for Johannesburg Helen Zille has taken a leaf out of @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's book when it come to random election stunts www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DD5...
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Zille takes a dip in pothole pool
YouTube video by eNCA
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My two cents on the Goodwin AI thing; it neatly demonstrates that the right is so vehemently anti-intellectual that it considers legitimate fact checking and academic integrity as ‘woke’
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
this book will analyse Britain's approach to educational, cultural, and sporting contact with Rhodesia during and shortly before it made its unilateral declaration of independence from Britain Phttps://www.britainzimbabwe.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BZS-March-2026-colour.pdf
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I've had a short write up published in the Zimbabwe Review on the book I'm currently writing. Provisionally entitled "Engaging with a Pariah State: British Policy Towards Cultural Relations with Rhodesia, 1963-1980"
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This will focus on the book I'm currently writing provisionally entitled ‘Engaging with a Pariah State: British Policy Towards Cultural Relations with Rhodesia, 1963-1980’. If you would like to attend please complete the form below and an MS Teams link will be sent nearer the time: lnkd.in/eqmkNnQN
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
On Wednesday 25 March I will be delivering an online talk as part of the International History Seminar of the North series: lnkd.in/ebdmkVgi
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
While its chances for success are very ltd, it is actively courting the Trump administration, which has already shown that it believes in far-right widely discredited conspiracy theories regarding a white genocide in South Africa inspired by the great replacement theory myth
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Key conclusions: perceived poor governance by the ANC combined with right-wing conspiracy theories and too much time spent online during the COVID Pandemic took this movement from the fringes to a topic included in mainstream debate in South Africa
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Latest article analysing the Western Cape independence movement doi.org/10.1080/0035...
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The Western Cape independence movement: motivations, justifications and critique
In recent years, the Western Cape (WC) independence movement has garnered significant interest, both nationally and globally. This article focuses on the main proponents of independence and their m...
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
You reap what you sow. Abandon progressive politics and progressive voters will abandon you
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is how you deal with presidents who usurp democratic states for themselves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
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Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea’s ex-president jailed for life for masterminding an insurrection
Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and indicted for declaring martial law in 2024.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Epstein managed different networks. The UK media has rightly centred the powerful pedophile ring. It has maintained an uncanny silence about the global, anti-democratic, far right political network. Farage is up to his neck in it. If it weren’t for unprecedented double standards it’d be career over.
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I’d add: these movements did what you’re *supposed to do* in a democratic system; organise, start debates, campaign, talk to politicians, put forward candidates. In response, they got screaming hostility and ludicrous shenanigans from politicians and politicians that are as popular as genital warts.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 30/01/2026
What Franco’s fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today’s America
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What Franco’s fascist regime in Spain can teach us about today’s America
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is genuinely one of the best pieces of analysis I’ve read on this issue. It perfectly describes a number of people on one side of my own family
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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📢 Happy to say that my new podcast, HISTORY'S DEVILS, will be starting on 12 Feb with an episode on the origins of British Fascism. For now, here's the season 1 trailer @philmcraig.bsky.social @ww2tv.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @rorycormac.bsky.social #history #podcast 🗃 🎬 🔽🔽
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Pleased to see the written evidence I co-produced with members of the Historians of Cultural Diplomacy research network (sites.google.com/ucm.es/hcd) has been published as part of the government enquiry Soft power: a strategy for UK success? committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
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HCD NETWORK
ABOUT US
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please understand: just like Macron, these people will be just fine in a Sensible Centrists vs Fascists set up. There are jobs and influence for them in that system. There is no place for them in a Left vs Right one: in that country, they’re all back working in PR, lobbying and the law. Unacceptable
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
With the rise of state terrorism of this nature, supported by extreme far-right misinformation online, compliant mainstream media, ad pathetically weak Western leaders unwilling to call out these gross violations of international law, no country is safe from a rogue US administration
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Rubio has criticised Europe as woke for classifying a far-right parties as extremists, elements close to Trump are sympathetic to Tommy Robinson, and Trump has demonstrated his belief on debunked far-right conspiracy theories relating to farm murders in South Africa
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We should all be worried about the US action in Venezuela. Regardless of the regime in place there, you simply cannot break international law in this matter to kidnap a nation’s leader. Trump has made clear he wants Canada and Greenland incorporated into the US, made threats to Mexico and Columbia
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Trawling through Rhodesian newspapers & television guides for examples of British-made programmes & films that slipped through the sanctions net. Will be a key theme in the final chapter I'm currently writing for my book on British policy towards cultural relations with Rhodesia during UDI
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Reform will be a total failure at governance whether at local or national level. The problem is the cognitive dissonance of its supporters won’t impact their loyalty, the party’s failures will always be someone else’s fault, the woke, the blob, the globalists, the WEF etc
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Also planning to attend an online talk on a new book on Rhodesia this evening. All of this happening on the 60th anniversary of Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain.
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
On a very early train to London to do (what I hope) is the final research trip for my next book on British cultural relations with Rhodesia. Using the time to write a review of a book on the Lancaster House talks, which saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
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Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Edited by @meltorrent.bsky.social & Lauriane Simony, this collection of articles is key reading for anyone interested in British foreign policy in the second half of the Twentieth Century: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...
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Latest articles from Contemporary British History
Browse the latest articles and research from Contemporary British History
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