Reposted by Bob HendersonChasbell 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He has basically copied his new policies from Scotland and made them look like his own the mans just another fraud, instead of being honest and saying these are good policies in use in Scotland and we should adopt them in England, they can’t have Scotland looking more progressive than England. 46233117
Reposted by Bob HendersonProject Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 23/09/2026The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen by Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman theconversation.com/the-two-scot... Books by Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature 0328
Reposted by Bob HendersonModern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Moments on Moscow streets 101 years ago Henry Sara's photos capture the Soviet Union in a period of uncertainty, 8 years after the revolution and a year after Lenin's death These images and more are online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... 0129
Reposted by Bob Henderson“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🇬🇧 The uk government squandered £37,000 MILLION, and as a result handed Scotland an additional notional debt of £4,500 MILLION That’s the ‘benefit’ of westminster Rule 🏴 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺 85033
Reposted by Bob HendersonAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/09/2026CFP: Hogg’s Worlds Now 2–4 July 2027 @glasgow.ac.uk Paper proposals are invited that engage with any aspect of James Hogg’s life & writing, & with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish #Romanticism. Abstracts due by 31 Dec. studiesinhoggandhisworld.blogspot.com/2026/05/fort...studiesinhoggandhisworld.blogspot.comForthcoming James Hogg ConferenceHogg’s Worlds Now The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July ... 054
Reposted by Bob HendersonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/09/2026#OtD 15 Sep 1888 the first ever Yom Kippur ball was held in London, UK, organised by Jewish anarchists in the Arbayter Fraynd (Worker's Friend) group. An explicitly anti-religious gathering, it was well attended and noted as a success despite arrests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8737... 24417
Reposted by Bob HendersonKonstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Another sad loss for the field. Colleagues report that Jonathan Smele has passed away. He was the longtime editor of Revolutionary Russia and author of The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916–1926, along with several other works. I used a lot his bibliography of the Russian Revolution. 133
Reposted by Bob Henderson“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🇬🇧 ‘THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK’ 🏴 Still the best Vlog you’ll ever see !🤣 12yrs ago this week, 100 british LABOUR MPs took a train all the way from London, to tell the people of Scotland to vote NO to independence, so that Scotland could stay in the EU🇪🇺 🏴 Are you YES yet ?🇪🇺 youtu.be/DiMXuEmqAHA?...youtu.beEmpire strikes backYouTube video by Empire Biscuits 78455
Reposted by Bob HendersonInternational Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Anarchism at the IISG! In September, we are organising two events focusing on this ideology. Want to know more? Have a look at our website iisg.amsterdam/en/events 043
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@steelyseabirder.bsky.social Goodness, I've never seen that before! 0103
Reposted by Bob HendersonKonstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Fellow Russianists! Many have recently noticed that the НЭБ portal with digitised documents in no longer accessible. One option is to install a free VPN with a Russian IP (if you're not already using one). Or use the link to the new portal new-portal.rusneb.ru You are welcome! 031
Reposted by Bob Henderson“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 09/09/2026🇬🇧 Burnham has just tied himself in knots over Indyref2, committing to same conditions as NI GFA rules, and to accepting an Indyref where there is majority support for YES “I am not aware that there is a majority of public support for another referendum, and until that changes there won't be one”thenational.scotIndyref2 conditions 'exactly same as Irish unity referendum', Prime Minister saysTHE rules governing when a second Scottish independence referendum can be held should be “exactly the same” as those for an Irish reunification… 103420
Reposted by Bob HendersonProject Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 08/09/2026Can statistics help crack the mysterious Voynich manuscript? By Greg Miller (from the archives) knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... More about Voynich manuscript: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich... #books #paleography 0164
Reposted by Bob HendersonDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115643180
Reposted by Bob HendersonFlitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A reminder to those in Scotland that you can get a National Library of Scotland online membership to access JSTOR without this limitation - and lots of other online resources. 32119
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ashamed to say that yet again I can't find a source: this time for this image of a work by Leonid Pasternak. Can anyone help? It's from a book I came across in the British Library about 10 years ago if that's any help. 000
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Alex Ferguson. What a guy! 37 goals in his time at Falkirk. I saw many of them as a young 'bairn'. 020
Reposted by Bob HendersonThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Evan Mawdsley reviews 'For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War', by Oleg Beyda academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uoftpress.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comFor Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War, by Oleg Beyda‘Be it with the devil himself, but against the Bolsheviks.’ This well-known slogan was coined by General Petr Vrangel in 1920, and it sums up the orientati 021
Reposted by Bob HendersonAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24/08/2026John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August Listen to Hamish Henderson’s “The John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972) ✊ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAs...youtube.comDick Gaughan - John MacLean MarchYouTube video by cobrolchain2 1266
Reposted by Bob HendersonThe Russian Review @russianreview.bsky.social · 20/08/2026*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “Emigres and Global Russian Identities” written by Adam Rodger (a former editorial assistant!) russianreview.ku.edu/emigres This guide includes articles written by Russian emigres that can be used in course syllabi and include suggestions for further reading. 011
Reposted by Bob HendersonSusan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Lovely blog post from my colleague Katya about books of fairy tales made for children in post-WW2 Displaced Persons' camps www.bl.uk/stories/blog...bl.ukFairy tales for Ukrainian and Belarusian childrenThe British Library holds many self-published books for children who were in Displaced Persons’ camps after the Second World War. 043
Reposted by Bob HendersonThe Russian Review @russianreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “A Look into the Archives” written by Olivia Naum russianreview.ku.edu/archives This is an overview of archival access for scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union throughout the years and is for anyone who wants to show the importance of archival access! 022
Reposted by Bob HendersonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/08/2026#OtD 14 Aug 1889 the great London dock strike began. In two weeks 130,000 were out and after four weeks the employers caved and agreed to nearly all the workers' demands. The dispute marked a turning point in British working-class history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8541... 06124
Reposted by Bob HendersonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/08/2026#OtD 9 Aug 1914 5000 people gathered on Glasgow Green, Scotland to denounce the declaration of WWI as "the outcome of capitalism." Unlike a similar rally in Edinburgh the day before, no jingoistic mob attacked. The war would claim over 16 million lives stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087... 07026
Reposted by Bob HendersonMarzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 26/07/2026A plate of overcooked pasta did not defeat fascism, but it announced, publicly and collectively, that fascism could be defeated. Thanks to the Istituto Cervi in Reggio Emilia for keeping this tradition alive. jacobin.com/2026/07/past... 041
Reposted by Bob HendersonAnna Lively @annalively.bsky.social · 09/07/2026📢 Book news!! My new book, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923, with Oxford University Press is now out online & open access ahead of print! doi.org/10.1093/9780... This image comes from the final chapter on Bolshevik and early Soviet attitudes to Ireland @leverhulme.ac.uk 24619
Reposted by Bob HendersonThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Alex Middleton reviews 'The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871', by Laura C. Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.comacademic.oup.comThe Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871, by Laura C. ForsterThis is an innovative and richly suggestive study of British political culture in international context. Rather than concentrating on Britain’s more heated 096
Reposted by Bob HendersonInternational Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Next week, archival objects will take center stage during the exhibition Objects that Remember and the storytelling workshop that extends the exhibition’s questions into a participatory setting What We Carry: Portable Homeland and Resistance in Exile. More information: iisg.amsterdam/en/events 011
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I wonder - can anyone offer assistance? Trying to fill in the gaps in this photo of some members of the London Russian émigré community (taken 1895 or earlier). Ashamed to say I didn't keep a note of the source 😱 Grateful for any help! 133
Reposted by Bob HendersonKonstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Dive into the 20th century music with the "Russian Records" archive russian-records.com/news.php Beyond the romances and marches, it’s a fascinating resource of early Soviet propagana. In the pre-radio era, the phonograph became a powerful tool during #RussianCivilWar 121
Reposted by Bob HendersonSociety for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026An exciting new hybrid talk from @lauracforster.bsky.social on 9 June, exploring the Communard refugees who arrived in Britain following the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871. Find out more: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/29/e...sslh.org.ukEvent: Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in BritainDr Laura C. Forster (University of York) will deliver an online and in-person talk on Tuesday 9 June titled: “Exile, affinity, and the afterlives of the Paris Commune in Britain”, covering her rece… 2178
Reposted by Bob HendersonRaphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Would you like to join the Raphael Samuel History Centre mailing list and hear about our forthcoming events? Contact Katy via the website www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...bbk.ac.ukRaphael Samuel History Centre - Birkbeck, University of LondonThe Raphael Samuel History Centre is an outreach and research centre supported by a two-way partnership between Birkbeck and Queen Mary. 076
Reposted by Bob HendersonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/05/2026#OtD 10 May 1920 dock workers in England refused to load armaments for use by Allies against the Russian Revolution. Sylvia Pankhurst played a key role in organising this, as did a woman known only as "Mrs Walker from Poplar" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8226... 16820
Reposted by Bob HendersonHistory: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 29/04/2026#History #Skystorians Another new article! Adam Coker's ' "Enthusiasts" and "Fanatics": The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions, and Thought', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468... 021
Reposted by Bob HendersonHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/04/2026'[E]fforts to grapple with Goldman’s politics co-exist with evocations that are less political, celebrating the lifelong anarchist as an impressively outspoken woman above all else.' Clara Vlessing examines the cultural afterlives of Emma Goldman and Louise Michel.historyworkshop.org.ukAnarchist AfterlivesWhat should we make of the cultural legacies of revolutionary women? Clara Vlessing considers the lives and afterlives of anarchists Emma Goldman and Louise Michel. 252
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Thanks for this. (Ashamed to admit I'd never heard of it😳) share.google/iGEzyl9c5xw2...share.googleGoogle Image Result for https://www.film.ru/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_260x400/public/movies/posters/27482627-1226391.jpg 020
Reposted by Bob HendersonKonstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026NEW BOOK At 91, the legendary Alexander Rabinowitch returns with a new study on the Bolsheviks in 1919. A stunning testament to endless intellectual longevity. @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082... 1167
Reposted by Bob HendersonProject Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 26/04/2026Groundbreaking Novel Ranked Among ‘Best Books of All Time’ Turns 307 Years Old parade.com/news/groundb... Robinson Crusoe at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70841 #books #literature 23011
Reposted by Bob HendersonHistory of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 23/04/2026#OpenAccess #archive Thousands of digitised photos from the GDR era in Leipzig. recherche-stadtarchiv.leipzig.de/actaproweb/s... #Photography #DDR #EastGermany #Leipzig #online #freeaccess #DDR #pictures 0195
Reposted by Bob HendersonHistory of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 14/04/2026#OpenAccess Nice collection of French communist digitised brochures. pandor.u-bourgogne.fr/fr/archives-... 0105
Reposted by Bob HendersonModern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Scenes of a revolution These tinted slides show Russia at a time of revolutions and civil war Produced in the USA by the Victor Animatograph Company, they were used for Henry Sara's UK lantern lecture tours See more Sara slides at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives 1187
Reposted by Bob HendersonWilliam Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026'We have all seen what they did to Gaza. The notion they cannot do this to Iran is simply wrong. It requires a colossal effort of will, a mania for killing, a vast amount of money and the depletion of the US arsenal. But they can do it.' @craigmurrayorg.bsky.socialcraigmurray.org.ukJoy at Death and DestructionThe United States and Israel are both revelling in inflicting the maximum possible death and suffering on Iran. After the genocide in Gaza, on a far larger field in Iran, those in power in Israel and 053
Reposted by Bob HendersonKonstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The archive of the Smolensk Communist Party Committee for 1917–1941 is now fully digitised and online. The unique documents were taken by the Germans during WWII and eventually ended up in the US. Now anyone can access them. catalog.archives.gov/id/12004746 154
Reposted by Bob HendersonAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 04/03/2026There’s more on Robert Burns, Graffiti Artist here #C18 #poetry #graffiti burnsmuseum.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/g...burnsmuseum.wordpress.comGraffiti Artist?Have you ever had the urge to graffiti? To loudly declare to the world I was here? Well Robert Burns certainly did, and he chose a way with great style and panache too. His was no illegible scrawls… 074
Reposted by Bob HendersonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/03/2026#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1020... 28837
Reposted by Bob HendersonUCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Join us on Wednesday for this Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Andrei Rogatchevski, who will discuss popular music and popular opinion at wartime. This talk will be delivered in Russian. 🗓️ 4 March at 4pm 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...ucl.ac.ukPopular Music and Popular Opinion at WartimeA SSEES Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Andrei Rogatchevski. This event will be delivered in Russian. 022