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Niklas Frykman

@nfrykman.bsky.social
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Historian of capitalism, revolution, and the sea. Author of THE BLOODY FLAG: MUTINY IN THE AGE OF ATLANTIC REVOLUTION (tinyurl.com/2p8e79yz)

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 16/09/2026
Submissions are now open for the 2027 National Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, to be co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, 10-14 March 2027 acisweb.org/conferences/...
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ACIS National Conference 2027 | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor of History at University of Connecticut; Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer; author of the award-winning Medical Bondage: Race…
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨ I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!
Flyer for my talk at the university Pittsburgh on April 9th at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd
Working Class History Seminar
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 07/03/2026
Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards
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Simon @simonxix.com · 08/12/2025
British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The world’s dumbest phishing attempt.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Check out Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery by PM Press on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
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Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery
A beautifully illustrated children's book on the life of Benjamin Lay, a courageous little person who stood tall against oppression.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day to all who celebrate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd6c...
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El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido | 1 mayo 2020
YouTube video by INTI-ILLIMANI
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Time once again to visit with an old friend.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I appreciate the attempt to offer an alternative to the compulsive praise that usually dominates the discourse in the field, but not sure this angry jumble of bad-faith hate-reading, incisive criticism, and reactionary politics is a huge improvement.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Following Pitt faculty and staff, grad students just voted 97% in favor of unionizing. www.publicsource.org/pitt-graduat...
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Pitt graduate students to unionize with United Steelworkers
University of Pittsburgh graduate student workers successfully voted to unionize. Five years earlier, a similar bid to unionize fell short.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Very happy to share the call for papers for the inaugural Three Rivers Graduate History Conference, co-organized by Pitt and CMU grad students.
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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I have just discovered that my new book, The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis, all 573 pages of it, is now available as a FREE pdf download brill.com/downloadpdf/... - despite not yet being available in hard copy. 😀
Cover of a new book on Marx & Engels on crisis & class struggle, with an image of one of the of the huge Jagannath chariots towed through the streets in public Ratha Yatra ceremonies in India.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
We're doing a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Many-Headed Hydra next May! For the full CfP, please go to www.history.pitt.edu/news/many-he...
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Pernille Røge @pernilleblues.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
If you are in Pittsburgh on April 9, don't miss this amazing closing lecture of our series on "Slavery and Memorialization in the Atlantic World": Prof. Pepijn Brandon, VU, "After Apologies: The Troubled Road Towards Recognition of Slavery in the Dutch Empire". All welcome.
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Come and be the next Amundson Professor of British History at Pitt! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
🚨🚨🚨 The History and Political Economy Project (directed by me & @zeithistoriker.bsky.social) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, beginning July 1, 2024, to support our public engagement and scholarly programs. Apply here by 2/1: apply.interfolio.com/137868
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
This is so great. An article about an enslaved brother and sister in Louisiana who escaped their captivity 61 times - some of it as pre-pubescent children. (via Marcus Rediker on the other site)
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Baptiste and Marianne's Balbásha': Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733��...
“Sir, I am sending you back your sauvage [Indigenous man, literally “savage”] once again, he does not deserve any pardon after so many repeated marronages [slav
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Niklas Frykman @nfrykman.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Back to one of my happy places!
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