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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧

@jburkett.bsky.social
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Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The question of *why* we have seen such a dramatic increase in ethnic minority educational attainment in Britain is too little asked From the 1960s to early 1990s there was a large literature seeking to explain the under-achievement of minority children that is now apparently long forgotten
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Not that this will surprise anyone in the sector who is sentient, but the universities recruiting the highest proportion of disadvantaged students and the list of universities facing major financial crises, closing programmes and shedding staff displays rather a lot of overlap. Essential reading.
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Who gets in? University benchmarks for better social mobility – Technical report – The Social Mobility Commission
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Excited to add this to reading lists for the autumn!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 04/08/2026
'When images like [Lloyd] Gee’s are put in conversation with local community members, they help to weave a social-historical tapestry that celebrates individual stories and collective identities.' Julian Ehsan explores the Bengali Photo Archive.
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Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive
What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.
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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
📝New publication! Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate: 1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Read and share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts
Fossil fuel production must be phased out globally to decarbonise human society. Yet some countries should phase out sooner than others. Determining the order in which countries should phase out pr...
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events: 18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis... 26 June, Linnean Society, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu... 9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...
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Global Solidarity Activism network @globalsolidarity.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
And so we begin: the first panel on friendship and solidarity, with papers on Portugal and Cuba, emotional work in the Zimbabwean anti-apartheid movement and women in the Uzbek Friendship Society during decolonisation.
A view of the workshop room, with a board showing the current presentation at the back, and participants.A photo of the programme on a table.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is a very human(e) addition about what students are being stripped of in the mad rush towards "AI". The heart of rebuttal is about those crucial things we try to educate towards: a flowering personhood, an adaptive, and curious, type of resilience. AI eats that stuff and leaves nothing behind.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
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Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 27/04/2025
'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.' Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️
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South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain
In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...
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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
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UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
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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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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hello everyone going to the British History Today conference at @qmcbs.bsky.social at the start of May! I'm giving a paper on young people, politics & age in late 1980s Britain at the @ihr.bsky.social the night before! See details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/fancy... #skystorians #histchild 🗃️
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‘Fancy calling an election on the day of my History "O" Level’: teenagers write about age and adulthood in late 1980s Britain
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When I describe "AI" chatbots as plagiarism engines, I'm not exaggerating, I'm simply describing reality: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
A tripartite bar graph showing the incidence of LLMs making up citations or links to sources that don't exist. Please navigate through the link to the full report to see all the details (too many to transcribe here).
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...
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PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War at University of Westminster
Find a PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view m...
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This International Women's Day use the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about women’s history. In our subject tree, ‘women’ offers over 40,000 articles, chapters, and books – why not have a look for yourself? buff.ly/3L7a33B
International Women's Day poster, cartoon of a group of women with hands on hips
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
University history lecturers spend much of the first year survey courses unravelling students' conviction that a source is useless because "it is bias (sic)". No, the bias or perspective is precisely what we're interested in.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Academia’s “labyrinth of acronyms, endless forms, and confusing hierarchies” can be barriers for professional services staff hoping to enter the sector, according to a new book. @patrickjack.bsky.social writes #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Work of professional services staff ‘invisible’ in universities
‘Survival guide’ aims to tackle ‘age-old binary that permeates the sector’
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
He's very proud of his mudstache
Photo of a yellow Labrador sitting down with dark mud all over his nose and feet
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Genuine question - why won't people (journalists, I'm particularly looking at you) just use the past tense when talking about the past?!?
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 05/02/2025
In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month. In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth www.historyworkshop....
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Queer Lives: Public History and the Queer Archive
Laura Forster is joined by Ajamu X and E-J Scott to discuss public history, the queer archive, and what it means to queer the museum.
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Cambridge University Press & Assessment @cambridge.org · 03/02/2025
Explore an alternative history of Cambridge 📖🌈 'Queer Cambridge' delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living for many decades in the heart of the University Discover more about the new @cambridgeup.bsky.social book 👇
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Intimacy, community and identity: an untold Cambridge story
A new book published this January, Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living...
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Are you studying or researching the histories of sexuality? The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) contains a wealth of resources in this area. You can also explore our LGBTQIA+ history reading list
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Online reading lists from BBIH
A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My alarm clock
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM
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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
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Manchester University Press - Unhappy mothers
Unhappy mothers - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Unhappy mothers by Sarah Crook
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
#OnThisDay 170 years ago, the first women were granted admission to the University Library as readers. Constantia Ann Ellicott, pictured here, was one of them. To find out more, head to the latest @theulspeccoll.bsky.social blog post: loom.ly/GTVcMbY
We see a photograph of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century. Her long dress has a full skirt with a crinoline underneath. She is leaning on a chair, looking straight to camera with a look of serene confidence.We see a photograph of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century.
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thank god straight, white, rich men are finally being liberated! 🙄
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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Reading about Charles Hardinge 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, once Viceroy of India, who retired and led the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies, a 'volunteer' org which attempted to break the 1926 General Strike. He received six knighthoods in his life and in Delhi there's a huge statue.
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Found a dead mouse in the kitchen. That was not the worst part of my day. How many more hours of work this year?!?
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Really exciting to be going through the applications for this #Indigenous histories & perspectives project! If you’re an academic working on Indigenous histories (or presents) & might be prepared to give up an hour or two to advise a keen teacher on their resources & lesson plans then please HMU! 🗃️
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Sharing this interview with @drkeisharay.bsky.social about her work on anti-black racism and Black Bioethics. Check it out! You can find her (excellent) book, Black Health, here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... blogs.bmj.com/medical-huma...
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Interview with Dr. Keisha S. Ray on Anti-black Racism and Black Bioethics - Medical Humanities
Jared N. Smith and Keisha Ray interview Dr. Keisha S. Ray on anti-black racism and black bioethics in today's interview.
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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New article (with wonderful colleagues Lena Grinsted and Catherine Murgatroyd) now out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Exploring attitudes to decolonising the science curriculum—A UK Higher Education case study
Scientific advances are historically linked to colonial actions of past empires resulting in knowledge production biased towards the West with minimal representation of scholars of other ethnicities t...
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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
HEX Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline this Friday 29 November. The conference will take place at Tampere University, Finland 10-12 March 2025. Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website: events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
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Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities
Historicizing Experiences Seventh Annual Conference March 10-12, 2025 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere University, Finland
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
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SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here's a full view of the cover, which I think came out rather nicely.
Cover of the book Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. The picture is a photo showing a crowd of people in front of the Hotel de l'Europe in Kuta Raja / Banda Aceh, Sumatra in the 1890s.
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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Latest publication: ‘An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context’. Co-authored with four excellent collaborators including @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (the others are not here yet). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context - Kate Davison, Katherine Hubbard, Sarah Marks, Hel Spandler, Rebecca Wynter, 2024
From the 1950s, aversion therapy gained an international foothold as a behaviourist means to alter what was then considered ‘deviant’ behaviour. Using primary r...
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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author @kitdewaal.bsky.social and agency AM Health.” via The Bookseller Magazine #NewWritingAward www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...
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New writing award for authors aged 60+ to prove it’s ‘Never Too Late’
A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author Kit de Waal and agency AM Health.
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hey. Writing/comics bsky could you share this around? (I’m judging & want to share BEYOND my circles!) This is a prize for if you’re working on an unpublished YA book: - Submit a short extract - Win money/ feedback - Open worldwide till Feb - INCLUDES YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
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Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I wrote this a while ago on how categories of migration can obscure hierarchies, and how these inequities explain why ‘managing’ mobility entrenches inequities
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reminder that our next & final 😢 #womensgrassrootsactivism online panel takes place on Tuesday 3 December at 12.30pm (UK time). Join us to hear about the lessor known grassroots activism of Chinese women in post-war Britain. Link to register below:
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AHRC Women's Grassroots Activism: Chinese Women's Grassroots Activism in UK
This online panel reveals the often overlooked grassroots activism of Chinese migrant women in Britain post 1945 .
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Nick Drew @nickdrewski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today marks 50 years since the Birmingham pub bombings, which killed 21 people and injured over 180. Nobody has been convicted for this crime since the Birmingham 6 were exonerated in 1991. Time for a public inquiry, before more family members die without answers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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PM must prioritise Birmingham pub bombings inquiry, say victims’ families
Relatives of those killed in 1974 attack urge government on its 50th anniversary to set up statutory inquiry
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