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...

It was relatively straightforward for the British government to end birthright subjecthood: statute overrides common law...

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...

Abstract. This book provides the first sustained historical analysis of migrant and minority participation in British boxing from the eighteenth century to

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...

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...

Abstract. Whether or not people in early modern England were citizens has often been analysed in terms of individuals’ participation in self-rule, neglecti

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Professor Andrekos Varnava is an expert on the British Empire. He shares his research and why knowing history is integral for the future.

YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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...

Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

From Italian villages to Irish chippers: the story of families who fried, served, and shaped a nation’s taste.

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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…

Despite misinformation that characterises refugees as a burden, their massive contribution to London is what makes the city the thriving metropolis it is today

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...

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.

Uncover the past and explore historical events from a global perspective, examining how they have shaped the modern world.

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.

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

OP-ED. The British prime minister's white paper, 'Restoring Control over the Immigration System,' fails to sufficiently recognize the contribution of immigrants to building the country, argues British...

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...

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...

Across the country men and women have cared for the resting places of their enemy’s fallen, finding peace and hope