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Saffron East

@saffroneast.bsky.social
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Historian of identities, education and social movements in modern Britain. Interested in antiracism and pedagogy. Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Kings College London.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Join 'former residents of Somerset’s Holnicote House, a National Trust building that became home in the 1940s to dozens of Britain's so-called ‘Brown Babies’ – the children born to Black American GIs and white British women during the Second World War.' 9 July 6:30 pm, IHR, London.
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Britain's WW2 ‘Brown Babies’ in conversation: Remembering Holnicote House
Join us for a special evening as former residents of Holnicote House share memories of growing up as Britain’s WWII ‘Brown Babies’.
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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Now in paperback!
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Simon Pirani @simonpirani.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
As a regular reader, I am out on the picket line again today, supporting staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who are JUST asking for decent pay
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Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🚀We’re #hiring a postdoc (3-years) for our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation! 👉 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📅4 Sep 2025
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Job researching plants and enslavement www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...
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Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
Details of funding available for PhD studentship at TCD
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/05/2025
📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 20/05/2025
How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....
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Indigenous Historical Practices
Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Submitting this for publication shortly, and we're now at 2920 signatures. It would be amazing to get it over three thousand before I turn it in...
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Lanre Bakare @lanre-bakare.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Excited to share the cover for my debut non-fiction book WE WERE THERE, which is out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head + is a cultural history of Black Britain in the Thatcher era. Please pre-order it via the link if you feel inclined! www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 27/04/2025
'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.' Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️
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South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain
In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement". Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/04/2025
In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective that arose in its aftermath.
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South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain
In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...
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Queen's Global History Initiative @queensghi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming workshop for graduate students and early career researchers. Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World after 1945 will take place Oct 2-3, 2025 at the University of Glasgow. www.queensu.ca/ghi/events/u...
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Workshop: Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World after 1945 | Global History InitiativeDown arrowDown arrowDown arrow
Call for Papers Dates: October 2-3, 2025 Location: University of Glasgow Keywords: Global history, transnational, nationalism, identity, decolonization, internationalism, 20th century, state formation...
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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If anyone is about 18th March I'll be giving a public seminar for the Manchester Uni history department. The talk will be exploring photographs of industrial struggle, race and resistance and discussing 'Bolton's Grunwick', a mill strike in 1978. All welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
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History Research Seminar - 'Bolton's Grunwick': Bulmer and Lumb and Asian Working Class Resistance | Events at The University of Manchester
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Two UK (home status) bursaries available for V&A's fab MA in the History of Design for 2025-26. Bursaries cover the full £17,000 fee. Under-represented groups supported by the scheme include for example African, Caribbean, Asian backgrounds, refugee status, care-leavers, disability, & low-income.
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V&A Foundation Awards - MA History of Design Programme at Victoria and Albert Museum
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📌Exploring carceral intersections of race, class & disability - Margarita Aragon 📆12pm 20 March 2025 (hybrid) @uomsoss.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @racerootsresist.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
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Exploring carceral intersections of race, class and disability
Margarita Aragon on processes of race- & class-making in the incarceration of people perceived as mentally deficient in early 20thC Britain.
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📣We are delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants! This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social, EHS; History UK; @historywo.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/10/b...
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BME Small Grants: 2025 Recipients
We are delighted to announce the results of the latest round of the BME small grants funding scheme. This scheme is administered by SHS in partnership with the Economic History Society, History UK,…
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Steve Jones @profstevenjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...
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University Reimagined - Manchester University Press
The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally.
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IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
THIS THURSDAY (23 JAN): we're excited to host Olivia Wyatt speaking on Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78. Hybrid session, please sign up online in advance or come along on Thursday! www.history.ac.uk/events/carib...
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Caribbean migrants and the negotiation of pigmentocracy in Britain, 1948-78
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
'We look forward to welcoming two fellows in the academic year 2025- 2026: both in the first semester (Sept 2025 - Jan 2026)'. Two 5-month fellowships available. Deadline 17 March 2025, 12:00 noon CET.
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NIAS – NIOD – KITLV Fellowship: Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonisation | NIAS
This fellowship is intended for researchers from formerly colonised countries – including heritage practitioners, historians, archaeologists, social scientists, artists, journalists, and/or cultural a...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 13/01/2025
We are deeply concerned to hear about proposed cuts and programme closures at the University of Northampton and the University of Sheffield. In solidarity with our colleagues, please join us and sign and share the two petitions below requesting URGENT action. 🚨 1/3
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
📢VACANCY: Research Associate - ELSA longitudinal study. Post focuses on the social science elements of the study espec ethnic inequalities in later life. Full time, 10.5 months. Closing date 31/01/25 @uomsociology.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate – English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA):Oxford Road
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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Another reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for our conference, British History Today, 1-2 May 2025 is 24 Jan. Send to qmcbs@qmul.ac.uk
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Black heritage PhD scholarships | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
We welcome applications for full scholarships to postgraduate research programmes starting in 2025.
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George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Are you a young Black British woman who is keen to develop skills in recording and creating the stories and histories of your community? Apply for this ground-breaking programme of training and support. speaking-volumes.org.uk/apply-women-...
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Women Speak Volumes Between Generations – APPLY
Call for participants Young Black women aged 18-30 invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators Booker Prize winning author and literary activist Professor B…
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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
*Call for Papers* Histories of racialised communities in Britain: a workshop for racially minoritised ECRs/PhDs Thursday 26 June 2025 University of Cambridge * abstracts due on Thursday 12 December * supported by @ethnicityuk.bsky.social get in touch for more info & pls share widely !
Image of Call for Papers. Black writing on white background. Text reads: Histories of racialised communities in Britain: a workshop for racially minoritised ECRs/PhDs. Thursday 26 June 2025. Darwin College, University of Cambridge. In recent years there has been an increased scholarly focus on Black British history and histories of racialisation and resistance in Britain. Important historical monographs such as Kennetta Perry’s London is the Place for Me (2016) and Shirin Hirsch’s In the Shadow of Enoch Powell (2018) have explored the development of racialised communities and their multifarious approaches to building community and resisting racism in Britain. This workshop invites papers from racially minoritised scholars who are conducting novel and nuanced research into new historical actors, perspectives or geographies within this growing field. It will be a collaborative and constructive space in which we can develop our ideas and arguments. Lunch and dinner will be provided. Participants will be reimbursed up to £150 for costs to attend the workshop, such as travel, accommodation, childcare or other care costs. How to take part in the workshop. If you would like to participate, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Saffron East (se462@cam.ac.uk) by the end of the day on Thursday 12 December. Spaces will be limited to five participants plus the organiser. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit a paper of up to 8000 words by Thursday 24 April for pre-circulation to peers. Participants will act as commentators for two or three papers. During the workshop we will each deliver a brief introduction to our research followed by questions and feedback from our commentators. Please email Saffron (se462@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions or comments. Image footer: logos of workshop supporters, the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and Darwin College, Cambridge.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Seema Malhotra reportedly saying people will be allowed to use "expired documents" to travel to the UK because of issues with the eVisa system, shows a dangerous lack of knowledge about systems and border checks from Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship. 1/5 #r4today
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
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Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
*Call for Papers* Histories of racialised communities in Britain: a workshop for racially minoritised ECRs/PhDs Thursday 26 June 2025 University of Cambridge * abstracts due on Thursday 12 December * supported by @ethnicityuk.bsky.social get in touch for more info & pls share widely !
Image of Call for Papers. Black writing on white background. Text reads: Histories of racialised communities in Britain: a workshop for racially minoritised ECRs/PhDs. Thursday 26 June 2025. Darwin College, University of Cambridge. In recent years there has been an increased scholarly focus on Black British history and histories of racialisation and resistance in Britain. Important historical monographs such as Kennetta Perry’s London is the Place for Me (2016) and Shirin Hirsch’s In the Shadow of Enoch Powell (2018) have explored the development of racialised communities and their multifarious approaches to building community and resisting racism in Britain. This workshop invites papers from racially minoritised scholars who are conducting novel and nuanced research into new historical actors, perspectives or geographies within this growing field. It will be a collaborative and constructive space in which we can develop our ideas and arguments. Lunch and dinner will be provided. Participants will be reimbursed up to £150 for costs to attend the workshop, such as travel, accommodation, childcare or other care costs. How to take part in the workshop. If you would like to participate, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to Saffron East (se462@cam.ac.uk) by the end of the day on Thursday 12 December. Spaces will be limited to five participants plus the organiser. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit a paper of up to 8000 words by Thursday 24 April for pre-circulation to peers. Participants will act as commentators for two or three papers. During the workshop we will each deliver a brief introduction to our research followed by questions and feedback from our commentators. Please email Saffron (se462@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions or comments. Image footer: logos of workshop supporters, the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and Darwin College, Cambridge.
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
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SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reminder that our next & final 😢 #womensgrassrootsactivism online panel takes place on Tuesday 3 December at 12.30pm (UK time). Join us to hear about the lessor known grassroots activism of Chinese women in post-war Britain. Link to register below:
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AHRC Women's Grassroots Activism: Chinese Women's Grassroots Activism in UK
This online panel reveals the often overlooked grassroots activism of Chinese migrant women in Britain post 1945 .
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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present & thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
‘Is it inevitable that the university will be reduced to the function of providing, with increasingly authoritarian efficiency, pre-packed intellectual commodities which meet the requirements of management?' (Warwick University Ltd., 1970) #CriticalUniversityStudies
Book cover of Warwick University Ltd.
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I'm excited to have a chapter in this new collection published by @manchesterup.bsky.social yesterday, edited by @theo-williams.bsky.social, Grace Redhead and @saffroneast.bsky.social. My chapter is 'Jews and the Race Relations Acts'. The whole book is excellent. www.google.co.uk/books/editio...
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Anti-Racism in Britain
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the inter...
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