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Kathleen Commons

@kabcommons.bsky.social

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Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The seminar is hybrid, so you can attend online or in-person at the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social. Please spread the word!

Poster describing Jonah Miller's paper at the IHR seminar on 20th September 2026, including instructions on joining up

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At our first seminar, we will be hearing exciting and innovative new research about Indian Muslims in Victorian London; 19thC prison ships; lodgers in 19th/20thC Antwerp & working class Anglo-Chinese couples in early 20thC Liverpool. Join us!

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just 10 days to submit to this amazing ECR roundtable @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar, convened by MC Loureiro, which aims to open space for new ways of understanding & challenging practices and theories of belonging, rights & protections. Details here: le.ac.uk/law/news/law...

Poster outlining the key points of the call for papers - available online at the website address linked in the post

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

And English allegiance *was* exclusive, or at least a lot of people thought so, that's why there was a massive fight about naturalisation in the late 17thC - both for English people abroad, and for Huguenots and Dutch in England. It was a whole thing!

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Pls stop mangling 17thC English law (& legal practice) to support stripping citizenship. Allegiance conferred protection - access to (rightslike) liberties in the common law *and* prerogative protection. It was not merely subjection! There are articles about this, but never mind, I guess.

Except from an article by Philip Hamburger reading "Justice Kagan said that the common law’s territorial rule was “very generous” in that it “extended citizenship to those born there who may not have been born of parent citizens.” Again, however, the common law rule was not about citizenship, and was not so much generous as merely sensible in saying that almost all persons in the king’s territory were his subjects and thus subject to his laws"

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thank you Sheffield (and my mum)!

PhD Graduation photo of a woman and her mother

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

Call for papers for a seminar for ECRs and PGRs on migration and mobility history

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Wow. Getting a PhD really does open doors!

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

You can't convince me that 70% of writing a history PhD is not just looking up synonyms

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Hibiscus Rising (in memory of David Oluwale) in Leeds, by Yinka Shonibare

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Reading about the travails of Samuel Jayne, customs officer, and enjoying his "two Pints of Wine" that he casually drank while discussing his court case

Text from 1685 pamphlet, mentioning that the plaintiff in a court case consumed "two Pints of Wine"

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Things that give you pause booking an event space

Booking form with a special cancellation policy for "paranormal investigations"

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