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The only acceptable iced coffee to rock up to a job interview with

Two litre bottle of Farmers Union Iced Coffee

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The only acceptable iced coffee to rock up to a job interview with

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I am just a researcher, sitting at my laptop, trying to convince this website that I am not a bot and want to read this obscure journal article from the 1970s.

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Whenever Lachie Neale pops up today

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Anyone not supporting the Dockers today is a bum

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am just a researcher, sitting at my laptop, trying to convince this website that I am not a bot and want to read this obscure journal article from the 1970s.

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In a history exam once, there was a question about E.P. Thompson’s “enormous condescension of posterity” concept. However, a typo asked about the “enormous condensation of posterity”. A fellow student didn’t know the original quote and wrote their entire essay about the condensation of history.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can read digitised issues of She (1970-1973), Mukti (1983-1987), and more in the South Asian Heritage collection on LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsesouthasia.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100

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Collections - LSE Digital Library

Explore our digital collections through curated selections of material according to themes, type or source of material.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Coming up on TalkSport, does the Thucydides Trap still have a place in modern geopolitical discourse?

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The 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...

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volume 54, Issue 5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volume 54, Issue 5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My new article examining the ICRC's visits to political prisoners in 1960s Apartheid South Africa, including its encounters with Mandela and Sobukwe, is out now in the Journal of Global History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Humanitarianism, race, and the late colonial global order: Red Cross prison inspections in Apartheid South Africa

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TFW you get that email...

Jaws poster of shark emerging from the deep, with text over the shark: "You have been added to the journal's peer review management system"

Above the swimmer: "Me"

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New book review published advance access by Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social @jakobburnham.bsky.social reviews 'By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire' by Mélanie Lamotte @harvardpress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can get 20% off my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, from bookshop.org and help support independent bookshops!

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This week 75 years ago, a referendum was held as to whether the Communist Party of Australia could be banned, which was narrowly defeated. I published this article on how the attempt to ban the CPA fit within other anti-communist measures in the Anglophone world. www.academia.edu/34350672/Pol...

Britain and the World 10.2 (2017): 170-196
DOI: 10.3366/brw.2017.0274 © Edinburgh University Press
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EVAN SMITH
Policing Communism Across the
'White Man's World': Anti-Communist Co-operation between Australia, South Africa and Britain in the
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By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you realise you might have to cut one of your favourite Stuart Hall quotes to make the article word count

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Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exciting 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...

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Twentieth Century Communism: About - Lawrence Wishart

Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history - Twentieth Century Communism: About - Lawrence Wishart

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provbot @provbot.wraggebots.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

606/10 – ARTICLE ON GOOD DRESSINGS MAKE THE SALAD; GLS; CATERING; ARTICLE – part of VPRS12903, Photographic Negatives: Railways: Box Systems. prov.vic.gov.au/archive/AB66DE54-F8…

Image from the collection of Public Record Office Victoria: ARTICLE ON GOOD DRESSINGS MAKE THE SALAD; GLS; CATERING; ARTICLE

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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New book review published advance access by the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social Alexander Insley reviews 'The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916' by Sascha Auerbach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916

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New book review published advance access by the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social Asadullah Raisani reviews ' Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations' by Afshin Matin-Asgari @versobooks.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Think once, think twice, think DO NOT PUT MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW INTO AI

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Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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The Overseer State: Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s a non-Victorian Grand Final. Always great to see.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!

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This Kayo commentary is infuriating. There should be a red button option to hear a robust anti-Sydney comms team.

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This week 49 years ago (Sep 1977) students at Melbourne University protested against lectures given by psychologists Hans Eysenck and Arthur Jensen, who falsely argued that there was a link between race and IQ. The protests led to much discourse about a free speech crisis at Australian universities.

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Joseph of Copertino taking a specky

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