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Panikos Panayi

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Professor of European History at De Montfort University www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-st…

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In our latest Current Debates discussion piece in @jich.bsky.social entitled "Migration, Integration and Riot in Britain: An Historical Perspective" Panikos Panayi reflects upon the history of British anti-migrant discourse. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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Migration, Integration and Riot in Britain: An Historical Perspective
Migrants have created Britain despite the current hostility which has surfaced and manifested itself most disturbingly in rioting against a variety of groups, including those seeking refugee status...
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Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DMU Politics & IR is proud to contribute to the Institute of Global Challenges and Cultures’ 2026–27 Migration, Integration and Conflict research seminar series. A great line-up of speakers and topics, beginning with Andreas Bieler in a couple of weeks! @dmuhistory.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social
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International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
BOOK LAUNCH Registration NOW OPEN! 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing' by @icshc.bsky.social Dr David Dee on Wednesday 21st October 2026 at 5pm. Full details at this link - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #sportshistory #boxing @dmu.ac.uk @dmuhistory.bsky.social
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/07/2026
‘The trend in recent years has been for countries to do away with, rather than affirm, 𝘫𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪. Ireland abolished the practice in 2005 after a referendum; Australia, New Zealand and India have all revoked it.’ @kabcommons.bsky.social on birthright citizenship. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Kathleen Commons · Short Cuts: England’s Birthright Citizenship
It was relatively straightforward for the British government to end birthright subjecthood: statute overrides common law...
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We have a brand new article from Ali Reza Din entitled 'Contesting multiculturalism: the Bradford Asian Youth Movement, Honeyford, Halal, and the Bradford 12'. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Contesting multiculturalism: the Bradford Asian Youth Movement, Honeyford, Halal, and the Bradford 12
This article examines the Bradford Asian Youth Movement (AYM) through three contests of the early 1980s: the Honeyford Affair, in which Asian parents and pupils opposed assimilationist education; t...
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dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
OUT TODAY in hardback/e-book - 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing: Insiders, Outsiders, and Ringsiders' by our Dr Dave Dee, published by @academic.oup.com and with research funded by @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de (1) global.oup.com/academic/pro... play.google.com/store/books/...
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A message from Matthew Stibbe, editor-in-chief, to mark the sudden passing of Don MacRaild. www.tandfonline.com/journals/fim...
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dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our Dr Dave Dee's new book with @academic.oup.com, 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing' is now available electronically (subscription required), prior to the publication of the hard copy in July 2026: academic.oup.com/book/62965?s... global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing: Insiders, Outsiders, and Ringsiders
Abstract. This book provides the first sustained historical analysis of migrant and minority participation in British boxing from the eighteenth century to
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/05/2026
The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
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History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sergey S. Akhmetov & Laila S. Akhmetova have published their new article ‘Between empire and tribe: transboundary rivalries of Kazakh elites on the Ili frontier, 1862-1871’. Read via the link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Between empire and tribe: transboundary rivalries of Kazakh elites on the Ili frontier, 1862–1871
This article examines how intra-clan rivalry among Kazakh elites shaped cross-border movement and political alignment on the Ili frontier between 1862 and 1871. Focusing on the Atban clan, it analy...
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Delighted to see that @kabcommons.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026! 'Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship was runner-up for IHR's Pollard Prize in 2024 bit.ly/4dCS8iN
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‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship*
Abstract. Whether or not people in early modern England were citizens has often been analysed in terms of individuals’ participation in self-rule, neglecti
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
‘A highly informative historical perspective on the factors that drove Caribbean migration to post-war Britain’. Read Karl Arthur’s review of Ryan Walmsley’s Oceans of feeling: an emotional history of Caribbean migrants in post-war Britain (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Oceans of feeling: an emotional history of Caribbean migrants in post-war Britain
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Really happy to see that the webpage for my next book (No. 5), 'Cypriot Migration to Australia until 1952' is available! brill.com/display/titl...
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Alexandria Innes reviews 'Diasporic futures: temporality and hope in the transnational politics of London Cypriots' by Evi Chatzipanagiotidou (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Diasporic futures: temporality and hope in the transnational politics of London Cypriots
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Me on the British empire, Cyprus & why the past still matters. For the AAH. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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Andrekos Varnava FAHA on why the past still matters
Professor Andrekos Varnava is an expert on the British Empire. He shares his research and why knowing history is integral for the future.
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Nice to announce my next book will be co-authored with Mike Hajimichael after being contracted to Anthem. The title is: 'EOKA and Political Murders in Colonial Cyprus: The Mob Killing of Savvas Menikos'. For a preview, watch our talk from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlte...
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Professors Varnava and Hajimichael talk on the mob killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958 by EOKA.
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Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Laws of War: Justice, Rights, and Ethics in Military Contexts url:https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/135/media/1004/incarceration-in-britain-and-its-empire Happy to share my @boapublishing.bsky.social article on ‘Incarceration in Britain and its Empire’
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Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Many thanks to Marina Karpozilou at @kathimerini.gr for the great write up! www.kathimerini.gr/society/repo... @anthempress.bsky.social
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Η άγνωστη ιστορία των Ικαριωτών στην Αυστραλία
Ο Γιάννης Κάρτλετζ, συγγραφέας του βιβλίου «Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945», φωτίζει μια λιγότερο γνωστή πτυχή της ελληνικής διασποράς: την παρουσία Ικαριωτών στη Νότια Αυστραλία ήδη από τις α...
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Issue 1 for 2026 (Vol. 54) is out now! ‪It is a special issue, edited by Mona Rudolph & Nina Kleinöder on: 'Business and Labour in German Colonialism'. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just in time for St Patrick's Day, a little piece I wrote about Ireland's Italian chippers. italysegreta.com/how-italians...
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How Italians Came to Run Ireland’s Chippers - Italy Segreta
From Italian villages to Irish chippers: the story of families who fried, served, and shaped a nation’s taste.
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
‘Ugolini’s close personal connections with her subject matter shine through the pages….’ Louise Miskell reviews Wendy Ugolini’s Wales in England, 1914-1945. (2024). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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BOOK REVIEW
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
‘Daly has produced a highly readable, and often poignant, account of those Italian emigrants...' Wendy Ugolini reviews Selena Daly’s Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians abroad in the First World War (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Book review of emigrant soldiers
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Alexandra Wilson reviews 'The Glyndebourne Émigrés: operatic mobilities in southern England, 1934-1940' edited by Nils Grosch and Beth Snyder, (Liverpool University Press, 2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Glyndebourne Émigrés: operatic mobilities in southern England, 1934-1940
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Mathis J Gronau @mjgronau.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I am immensely grateful for such an amazing review from such an esteemed scholar in the field! It is wonderful to see how well the book has been received so far: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924
Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
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Dave Stowe @davidstowe1919.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Some weekend reading. #Internment
Two books: Matthew Stibbe "Civilian Internment during the First World War" and Panikos Panayi "Prisoners of Britain"
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/01/2026
We are very sorry to learn of the death, earlier this month, of the historian, Professor Anthony Fletcher (1941-2026). A Fellow @royalhistsoc.org since 1976, Anthony was a leading scholar of early modern England. Between 2000-05 he also served as General Editor of @vch-home.bsky.social #Skystorians
Book covers for publications by the historian Anthony Fletcher.
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The Lausanne Project (TLP) @lausanneproject.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"It's impossible to be non-politicised in Cyprus after 1955. But once you leave and move to London, it’s television media, letters to your family back home…you know what’s going on. It’s traumatizing you." thelausanneproject.com/2025/12/12/p...
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PODCAST – Episode 76: The Cypriot Diaspora
In the third of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Panikos Panayi and Giorgios Charalambous trace how Cypriots have made lives for themselves across the…
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Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Delighted to have received my De Montfort University 35 year long service award. Thank you to all staff and students who have helped me on the way.
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Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Despite anti-refugee misinformation, we see in our frontline services every day how refugees already contribute massively to the UK. Our CEO Enver Solomon in The Standard for the "Who's at your table?" campaign with Comic Relief ⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/comment/enve...
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Enver Solomon: 'When we hear the word ‘refugee’ do we think ‘giver’?'
Despite misinformation that characterises refugees as a burden, their massive contribution to London is what makes the city the thriving metropolis it is today
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Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We know why people come to the UK: because they already have family here, they speak some English, or they have long-standing ties that help them rebuild their lives in safety.
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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE! In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India. Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
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When is a refugee not a refugee? — Refugee History.
England’s ‘proud history’ of welcoming refugees is regularly invoked in contemporary debates about refugees in Britain. Public and academic histories of pre-modern migration to England support this no...
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow 5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR @profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Introduction to the Migration and Mobility Seminar
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Shockat Adam MP @shockatadam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Political dissent is a democratic right. People understandably feel disenfranchised by austerity & government mismanagement. But violence & racism must never be tolerated. My letter to the Home Secretary urges respect to be upheld & action against all forms of hatred.
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!
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Migration and Mobility History
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.
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dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Do you want to study History but are worried about clearing? Please consider checking out our History degree courses at De Montfort University. You can find information about the clearing process and our history offerings at our website.
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History BA (Hons) at De Montfort University
Uncover the past and explore historical events from a global perspective, examining how they have shaped the modern world.
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Migration and Mobility History
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 04/07/2025
There's also one week to the close of applications for the Society's 2025-26 Funded Book Workshops bit.ly/4fYQcRC Workshops support mid-career historians, currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph, to bring together scholars to discuss a manuscript in detail. closing Friday 11 July. #Skystorians
Image of an open book with the text: Funded Book Workshops. For historians writing a second or third monograph, 2025-26. Closing date 11 July
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Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Migration minimum income rules damaging family life and causing acute distress, experts warn news.exeter.ac.uk/fa...
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Migration minimum income rules damaging family life and causing acute distress, experts warn
Rules on the minimum income needed for foreign spouses and partners of British citizens and settled residents to live in the UK are already leading to lengthy and permanent separations, damaging family life and causing
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Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Dan Stone. Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust. url:https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/130/2/943/8158903 Here is my latest review in the 'American Historical Review', of Dan Stone's history of the International Tracing Service and those it assisted.
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Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Excited to have received the paperback copy of my book on 'The Germans in India'.
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Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Here is a link to my think piece in yesterday's 'Le Monde' about current British immigration political discourse and the centrality of immigration in constructing the multiethnic society into which Britain has evolved, and which is continually evolving. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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« Au Royaume-Uni, Keir Starmer singe le discours de la droite anti-immigration »
TRIBUNE. Le Livre blanc du premier ministre britannique, « Reprendre le contrôle de la politique d’immigration », ne fait pas suffisamment cas de l’apport des immigrés dans la construction du pays, dé...
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Arunima Datta (PhD, FRHistS) @migrationhistorian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Delighted to share that my article on travelling entertainers/performers in Britain just got published in Journal of Immigrants and Minorities (a journal that has for long inspired me! 🥹) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Entertaining the metropole: vagrancy, repatriation and Indian performers in Britain
During the nineteenth century, several British colonial agents and touring companies working in the entertainment industry brought Indian travelling performers to Britain. However, these performers...
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Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
These came in the mail today! brill.com/display/titl... Was a pleasure working with you both! @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wonderful to have received this award with @yiannicart.bsky.social!!
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Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Thank you! Absolutely delighted to read this overview in the Observer: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘A common humanity’: the British families who tended graves of German soldiers
Across the country men and women have cared for the resting places of their enemy’s fallen, finding peace and hope
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Deeply honoured to have published my 40th article on the 'Corsica', the ship that brought my dad to Australia, and on other similar 'hell' voyages to Australia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding post-war migrant voyages to Australia and the case of the Corsica, 1946–52: ‘hell trip on a floating slum’
This article historically contextualises the conditions on migrant voyages to Australia. It starts with a historical sketch of various traumatic voyages from 1946 to 1951, before more deeply explor...
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Mathis J Gronau @mjgronau.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My good friend Stefan Manz is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity at Aston University on a topic that is very dear to my heart. Check it out, share it, and, if you're interested, feel free to contact him or his colleague Volker Prott: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Refugees and ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Britain, 1914-1923: Between Humanitarianism and Internal Security at Aston University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Refugees and ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Britain, 1914-1923: Between Humanitarianism and Internal Security at Aston University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
1. I’m not sure this will be much of an escape from the horror of global events – sorry! But it is World Book Day & the advance copies of my @yalebooks.bsky.social are here: tinyurl.com/4v2w2x95
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