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Theo Williams

@theo-williams.bsky.social
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Researching histories of anti-imperialism and Black radicalism. Author of: *Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation*: www.versobooks.com/books/4073-makin…

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
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‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*
Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is a great collection and I happen to have a chapter in it.
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
*Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c. 1880-present* is out now in paperback AND half price in the @manchesterup.bsky.social summer sale! 50% discount applied automatically at checkout manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526199775/
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Manchester University Press - Anti-racism in Britain
Anti-racism in Britain - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Anti-racism in Britain by Saffron East
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Just published in @jich.bsky.social, alongside my colleague Jim Phillips Black Essential Workers, Racialised Citizenship and Community ‘Friendliness’: The British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, 1941–1943 doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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Black Essential Workers, Racialised Citizenship and Community ‘Friendliness’: The British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, 1941–1943
The experiences of roughly 900 Black lumberjacks, serving in the British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, demonstrate that citizenship for Essential Workers was racially constrained in Second Wo...
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Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
📢 New out! Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social argues for Black activism in Britain to be viewed through a more global lens. #activism #anti-colonialism #anti-racism #BlackLiberationFront #BlackPower #decolonization #neocolonialism #Pan-Africanism Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social ‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026. You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social ‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front
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Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities! A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA):Whiteknights Reading UK
Postdoctoral Research Associate(4 years, full time) in public history project ‘Nation of Refuge’.
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Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art. 'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art' Read full article here👇🏾 doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...
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Welcome, friends!
An introduction to our new friends in common blog.
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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World After 1945: CfP for the Global History Initiative's fall conference in Glasgow: rb.gy/f33c4p Deadline for proposals March 28
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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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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Looks like a great event coming up at Glasgow this October
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 08/03/2025
In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. @alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement. www.historyworkshop....
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African Activism in Anticolonial Cairo
In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. Alex White examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.
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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW PUBLICATION My article 'Willing Conscripts' has just been published Open Access in @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The article examines how Black radical thinkers from 18th-20th centuries attempted to reconcile modernity and the African past. 1/4
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Willing Conscripts: Black Radical Thought, Modernity, and the (Im)possibility of Return
This article examines from a global perspective how Black radical thinkers have attempted to reconcile modernity and the African past. Black radical thinkers have developed diverging ideas about wh...
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW PUBLICATION My article 'Willing Conscripts' has just been published Open Access in @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The article examines how Black radical thinkers from 18th-20th centuries attempted to reconcile modernity and the African past. 1/4
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Willing Conscripts: Black Radical Thought, Modernity, and the (Im)possibility of Return
This article examines from a global perspective how Black radical thinkers have attempted to reconcile modernity and the African past. Black radical thinkers have developed diverging ideas about wh...
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Marika was instrumental to the development of Black histories in Britain and elsewhere. She was also an important mentor to so many scholars. Her presence will be missed but her legacies will endure.
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
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Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell | Waterstones
Buy Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Posting my ballot #UCU. Our HE branches are fighting for our lives. Alone we crumble, united we’re strong. Please vote for me & for left/independent candidates. We need leadership prepared to uphold democracy, to organise, & who believe in collectivity as strength. rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com
Me posting envelope into red postbox. Morning sky.
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The online version of my new co-edited book *Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, Histories and Trajectories* can be found here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... Institutional access required, I'm afraid. 1/
Front cover of Anti-racism in Britain, edited by Saffron East, Grace Redhead and Theo Williams
Cover image shows an anti-racist demonstration in London in 1976
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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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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A reminder that next Friday 29 Nov I’ll be launching my book MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN in Birmingham, one of the book’s key case studies. Details of where and when 👇 Join us if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multicultu...
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Multicultural Britain by Kieran Connell at Brig Café at the Warehouse
Multicultural Britain by Kieran Connell at Brig Café at the Warehouse in association with the Birmingham Race Impact Group and more.
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I put together a new starter pack of people who do work on the history of socialism. Encompasses different aspects, tendencies, and eras, including recent years. Let me know if you have suggestions or would like to be added yourself.
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hi all, I'm new to Bluesky. Thought I'd make a thread of some of the things I've done over the past few years... (cont.)
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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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