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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We are very very excited to be hosting Ren Pepitone today! Ren will be speaking on BBC Radio London, localism and amateur dramatics in the 1970s. Can't wait. Join us @5.30pm online or at the IHR! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Amateur Actors and Local Radio: A Counternarrative to Commercialization
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This evening! Join us for a BIG conversation on Britain's historical relationship to charity, decolonisation and development.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This Thursday, heavy hitter Hilton speaks on his exciting new book on charity, empire, decolonisation - with an incredible line-up of roundtable participants. See details below. Don't miss it! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c.... In person or online, join us @5.30pm: 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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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
TONIGHT! Online and in person! Join us for Bobby Phe Amis presenting new research on 'Left behind: compensation, migration and the Overseas Services Resettlement Bureau, 1958 - 1981'
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Next Thursday, 30 April, 5.30-7pm... Join us (online or in person) with Bobby Phe Amis offering wonderful new perspective on postimperial Britain, welfare and the managed return of colonial service officers! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Left behind: compensation, migration and the Overseas Services Resettlement Bureau, 1958 - 1981
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Check out our exciting summer line-up of speakers! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Britain at Home and Abroad
This seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.
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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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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Join us for another exciting paper TONIGHT 5.30pm online or in person in IHR Seminar Room N304: Jessi Gilchrist (KCL) will be discussing her doctoral research into the history of border-making in the interwar Middle East. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Enforcing Lines in the Sand: British Egypt, Italian Libya, and the quest to build desert boundaries during the interwar years
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
TONIGHT! Online and in person - the great Dr Rob Saunders speaks on the Third Reform Act and the making of British Democracy at 5.30pm! Join us! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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"Democracy has come!" The Third Reform Act and the making of British Democracy
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Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
On 26 March, I am speaking at my second IHR seminar of the academic year - this time at @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social. It is only the second time I will be presenting something from one of my new projects so please do come along as I am desperate for feedback, ideas, suggestions, and thoughts!
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Sensemaking and Violence in Britain’s Mesopotamia Campaign during the First World War
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
HERE IT IS! We are super excited to share our 2025/26 spring programme! Mark your calendars for some exciting new research in modern British history... www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... First up! QMUL's Dr Rob Saunders on DEMOCRACY on 29 January. Online or in person at the IHR. See you there.
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Britain at Home and Abroad
This seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Highlight from last semester!
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Please join us tomorrow - in person or online - for a talk from QUB's Patrick Thompson on his new research on *British perceptions of the Northern Irish civil rights movement.* We are really looking forward to this!
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisation
This session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Join us tomorrow 5.30pm at the IHR or online (link below). We're super excited to host Dr Scott Anthony on the history of arts funding! All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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‘I will take money for the arts from murderers, from rapists, from anybody’: The British state as cultural patron
This paper examines the growth of arts policy in post-war Britain.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excited for our final talk of this academic year tomorrow evening -- @imperialhistorian.bsky.social will be speaking on "The Photographic Archive of Multiculturalism". This event is fully online and you can sign up to attend on Teams here: www.history.ac.uk/events/photo...
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The Photographic Archive of Multiculturalism
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please note that the event on 29 May is fully online, but the seminar on 15 May is hybrid, so you can either watch (and ask questions!) online, or come along to the IHR to hang with us in-person.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our short-but-sweet summer term schedule is now up on the IHR website! Two seminars: one, on 15 May, a hybrid event with @riakapoor.bsky.social, and one, on 29 May, an online talk from @imperialhistorian.bsky.social. All welcome!!! For abstracts and to sign up, click on the link:
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our short-but-sweet summer term schedule is now up on the IHR website! Two seminars: one, on 15 May, a hybrid event with @riakapoor.bsky.social, and one, on 29 May, an online talk from @imperialhistorian.bsky.social. All welcome!!! For abstracts and to sign up, click on the link:
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looking forward to the latest @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social seminar on 15 May. My impressive @qmcbs.bsky.social colleague @riakapoor.bsky.social will speak about the 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion. The seminar can be attended in person and online. Sign up 👇 www.history.ac.uk/events/burea...
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Bureaucracies of Violence: a history of the Ugandan Asian Expulsion, 1972
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our substack has just gone out with the term details in it. We promise not to write any 7,500 word thinkpieces about the State of the Field of mOdERn brITisH hiSTtoRy if you sign up here: britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com
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Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 | Substack
The newsletter of the Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 IHR seminar. Click to read Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
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Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
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Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hi everyone! Our spring term programme is now up on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri... Thanks to the help of the IHR, all of these sessions are offered hybrid: so you can sign up to attend online, or come along in person.
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Britain at Home and Abroad
This seminar covers all aspects of modern British history – social, cultural, political and economic.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hi everyone! Our spring term programme is now up on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri... Thanks to the help of the IHR, all of these sessions are offered hybrid: so you can sign up to attend online, or come along in person.
history.ac.uk
Britain at Home and Abroad
This seminar covers all aspects of modern British history – social, cultural, political and economic.
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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Come hear me talk about the new ways of imagining life after work that took root in the later 20th century (featuring these guys).
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Looking forward to our final seminar of this year — we are hosting @historianhelen.bsky.social talking about her research on Planning for Retirement in Postwar Britain. All welcome: it’s a hybrid session so either come along to the IHR or sign up on the website to dial in remotely!
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
PhD students: you are ALWAYS welcome at IHR seminars. You don't need to sign up in advance, you don't need to have an introduction, you don't need to be based at a London institution and you don't need to be able to 'prove' that you're working on something 'relevant'. No gate-keeping at the IHR!
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We now have more followers on Bluesky than on Twitter: and this (and our substack: britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com ) are our primary means of communicating with people.
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Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 | Substack
The newsletter of the Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 IHR seminar. Click to read Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is tonight! Still time to sign up, or do come along in person.
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For the chronological timeline fans, a reminder this is today!
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Delighted to welcome @samwetherell.bsky.social to the IHR this Thursday, to give a paper on Race, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Liverpool! This is a hybrid talk, so do come along to the IHR or sign up to watch on Teams here: www.history.ac.uk/events/race-...
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Race, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Liverpool
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
If you're a user of the Bibliography of British and Irish History, they are looking for blogpost contributors on the range of different topics. Details here: britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com/p/bbih-blogp...
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BBIH Blogpost series....
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is looking to commission a series of blog posts (500-1000 words) from historians at different career stages about how they have used BBIH:
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Please sign up to our substack britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com if you want to be reminded about our seminars -- and you can find us on the IHR website too, of course, with all relevant details of where and when we are.
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Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 | Substack
The newsletter of the Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 IHR seminar. Click to read Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
This week we are really excited to welcome Shahmima Akhtar (Birmingham) to the IHR to talk Exhibiting Irishness, Empire, Race and Nation, c.1850-1970. There are tube strikes on Thursday, but some of us will be in the room - and it's a hybrid event if you're stuck! www.history.ac.uk/events/exhib...
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Exhibiting Irishness, Empire, Race and Nation, c.1850-1970
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
This week we are really excited to welcome Shahmima Akhtar (Birmingham) to the IHR to talk Exhibiting Irishness, Empire, Race and Nation, c.1850-1970. There are tube strikes on Thursday, but some of us will be in the room - and it's a hybrid event if you're stuck! www.history.ac.uk/events/exhib...
history.ac.uk
Exhibiting Irishness, Empire, Race and Nation, c.1850-1970
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
And as always, you can find more information about our planned sessions on the @ihr.bsky.social website www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri... -- all of our sessions this term (*except* the PhD session this week) will be hybrid so please do sign up to attend in person or online!
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
We are now using substack for our reminder emails (don't worry, we won't start sending long newsletters with our Hot Takes on British History) and you can subscribe to that here: britainathomeandabroadsince1800.substack.com/p/britain-at...
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Britain at Home and Abroad IHR Seminar
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Hi everyone! We are excited for our PhD student session, this Thursday -- this is in-person only at the IHR, and you can find details here www.history.ac.uk/events/phd-s... Please do sign up if you are a PhD student who would like to meet other modern British historians!
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