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Tehila Sasson

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historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) shorturl.at/qxFJ8

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Prime Minister says he wants to end "forty years of neoliberalism". That poses a lot of questions about the meaning and nature of neoliberalism - which @will-davies.bsky.social, @tsasson.bsky.social & Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite chew on here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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What Was Neoliberalism—And Is It Dying?
Andy Burnham has promised nothing short of the end of “forty years of neoliberalism”. That begs the question: what is neoliberalism, really? A set of ideas, a policy paradigm, or something else? As p...
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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Really excited to be relaunching Progressive Review, @ippr.org's journal of politics, ideas and public policy, with a new editorial team + advisory board:
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Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
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The Duncan Tanner Prize
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Modern British Studies Association is looking for volunteers to join its steering committee. We're keen to appoint a representative for independent scholars, for early career researchers, & co-editors for our blog. More details below; expressions of interest by 7 Sept. modbritstud.org.uk/join/
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Join the MBSA | Membership from £10
Become a member from just £10. Attend our annual conference, enter prizes & join a growing network of scholars. Join the MBSA today.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 12/06/2026
putting getting a "oh dear god" from jon stewart on my cv
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Koch History Centre @khc-oxford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"A nuanced and bracing excavation of fascism's afterlives in the Spanish-speaking world." Kirsten Weld, Harvard Congratulations to our Koch History Centre Fellow @danielgkressel.bsky.social on the publication of his book "Hispanic Technocracy". cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/how-...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/06/2026
Breaking News: David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful paintings restored the human form to art, defying the abstract schools of the mid-20th century, died at 88. nyti.ms/4e6D0fc
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
wish i could attend this!
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Elizabeth Chatterjee has reviewed THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY in The Journal of Modern History. You can read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
An excellent postdoc opportunity at the venerable @wiko-berlin.bsky.social for humanities and social science researchers: apply by 1 September. www.wiko-berlin.de/en/becoming-...
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Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Early Career Call Humanities and Social Sciences
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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're hiring a permanent Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We have a rare and exciting opportunity to join our team as Director of Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College. Application deadline is 9am on 29th June 2026. Please share this with people you think would be interested.
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Director of the Churchill Archives Centre | Churchill College, Cambridge
Application deadline: 09:00 am BST on Monday 29th June
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians
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Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain
Women's History Seminar
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Delighted to see Helen McCarthy's Pimlott Lecture on retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s now published in MBH @historianhelen.bsky.social @mbhjournal.bsky.social Read it here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Delighted that @historianhelen.bsky.social 's terrific 2025 Pimlott Memorial Lecture, 'Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s', is now published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 08/06/2026
Another new book that looks really good! #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
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The Dum-Dum Bullet
Cambridge Core - Military History - The Dum-Dum Bullet
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Now in #paperback, @tsasson.bsky.social's The Solidarity Economy tells the untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History
The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire by Tehila Sasson. "Sasson has written a wonderful book that prompts us to think afresh about the histories of neoliberalism, capitalism, and empire."—Ben Jackson, University of Oxford
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
this was a superb panel on "passing" as a historical category. it was a pleasure chairing it and learning from these scholars.
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
One-year teaching cover at Oxford in Modern European History. Please note the short window - deadline is June 18. history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/depart...
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Departmental Lecturer in Modern European History
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very much enjoyed this conversation and the opportunity to share some new work. Thank you!
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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
📢📢📢 It's US publication day!! Here is a 30% discount code for the Princeton University Press site (P329) for when copies cross the Atlantic! A bargain at less than £25 and the perfect beach read for summer.
The Disraeli Myth discount code
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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ahead of next week's #MBS26 conference, our website is now live! Check out our new blog series, Histories from Here, and our plans for prizes and conferences in Modern British Studies modbritstud.org.uk
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Modern British Studies Association
Join a thriving research network exploring modern British society, politics & culture. Discover events, awards & membership. Become a member today.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I have a prize lecture about extinction this Thursday evening at the Royal Society. I’ll also receive a medal. Tickets are free and it will also be steamed on YouTube. Booking and watching details here: royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar prize lecture: Hope in the shadow of unnatural extinctions | Royal Society
Join us for the Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture delivered by 2025 winner Professor Sadiah Qureshi.
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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Kieran Connell: Ireland has a long multicultural history. It's time to tell that story
Refugees from Hungary and Belgium; migrant workers from Poland and Germany; doctors from Africa and Asia — over the last century, Ireland was far more diverse than many of us seem to realise
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Reminder - just 5 days left to submit a paper proposal for "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care", a 1-day conference on 4 September 2026 to be held at Wilton's Music Hall. Details in attached image. 🌟
Call for Papers for conference "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections and Care" on 4 September 2026 - deadline 22 May 2026.
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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is going to be a great one, get your tickets now. A very timely conversation about the crisis in the Labour Party, with a stellar line up of speakers: Lise Butler, Rowan McWilliams, Glen O’Hara and Emily Robinson.
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I've been so busy at work I haven't had the chance to share that my book is now in paperback!!
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@tsasson.bsky.social's The Solidarity Economy tells the untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire. Out now in #paperback! Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History
The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire by Tehila Sasson
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Thoughtful piece by @historianhelen.bsky.social on retirement as a political struggle of the twentieth century, but one that reduced the space to rethink the work/life interface - an urgent question for today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain pioneered the comfortable retirement – but that golden age is coming to an end | Helen McCarthy
The once inexorable rise in retiree living standards since the second world war has broken down. Can we keep the dream alive for future generations, asks historian Helen McCarthy
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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Really looking forward to this - especially to sharing a panel with @tsasson.bsky.social , Erika Rappaport, and Jonathan Saha. If you're about, come and check out our discussion on capital and capitalism on 3 June.
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If you’re an ERC or a postgraduate considering publishing your work but aren’t sure where to start, feel free to get in touch—I’d be happy to talk you through the publishing process of @mbhjournal.bsky.social
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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
MBS2026 is next month! Please note that registration closes on May 12. The conference and registration link is available here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
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Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
excited to discuss material from my book project In and Against with @ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social and others in Berlin tomorrow
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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...
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Volume 34, Issue 1
A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
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Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Really very proud of this issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social and a pleasure to work with Steven and Harry. I think the issue offers a fair-minded view of one of the most important pieces of Labour’s agenda and tackles the changing work landscape in a big picture way. Read, share, subscribe!
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Same anthea butler folks. But when I am on my fellowship, I cite the place I'm currently at.
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Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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Labours of Liberation: Resourcing Feminist Activism in 1970s Bristol
Abstract. This article uses a case study of Bristol Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) to interrogate the bureaucratic, administrative and material logistic
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I'm on around 8:37 on @ms.now talking Pope Leo
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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hello Bluesky. I haven’t been posting much because it’s been a difficult few months. My husband and I are fundraising for Sands, the baby loss charity. Any donations will be very gratefully received: justgiving.com/page/gandmfu...
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Gareth & Marta's fundraiser for Sands
Help Marta Zboralska raise money to support Sands
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚨 Conference booking open 🚨 Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain from the 19th century to the present 18 June 2026, University of Warwick Booking form and additional information about the programme available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, libraries, archives, museums and community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry.

Conference programme:

Panel 1:  Disasters, safety and commemoration

Oaks Colliery Disaster, 1866
Paul Darlow, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Paul Hardman, former NUM National Executive Officer

The Safety Men: the Colliery Deputies union in the British Coal Industry
Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University (Emeritus)

Welcomed to Wrexham
Sarah Castagnetti, The National Archives

The 1959 Auchengeich Disaster: class, community and commemoration in Scotland’s coalfields
Professor Jim Phillips, University of Glasgow

Chair:  Dr Jörg Arnold, Universität Augsburg

Panel 2:  Health

The Violent Realities and Multiple Temporalities of a Miner’s Life
Liv Robinson, Northumbria University

‘A wonderful difference to the home life’: pithead baths, pitwomen, and disability in twentieth-century British coalmining communities
Lucy Jameson, Durham University

Pneumoconiosis, Environment, and the Politics of Coal Miners' Health in Twentieth Century Britain
Dr Andrew Seaton, University of Manchester

A Special Case? Miners’ Health, Wage Relativities and the Fall of Heath’s Government
Robert Rayner, University of Birmingham

Chair:  Professor Mathew Thomson, University of WarwickPanel 3:  Welfare

“Feeding on the job?” Pit canteens in 1940s Britain
Dr Ariane Mak, Université Paris Cité & IUF

The Warmth of Home: Concessionary Fuel and Domestic Energy in British Coalfield Communities, 1945-1995
Dr Kathy Davies, Northumbria University

Class, Culture and Democracy: the Miners Libraries of South Wales
John Pateman, University of Leicester

Deindustrialisation and the recreational provision of the nationalised British coalmining industry (1950s-1984)
Dr Marion Henry, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Chair:  Dr Quentin Outram, Society for the Study of Labour History 

Panel 4:  Legacies   

Now The Dust Has Settled
James O. Davies, Historic England

'The Big K: The Pit that shaped a community' Its legacy, a decade after closure.
Judi Alston, One to One Development Trust

Union Poorhouse to Union Leader - Herbert Smith, President of the Miners Federation of Great Britain 1922-1929.
Kathryn Stainburn, Castleford Civic Society

The Afterlife of Coal in Barnsley: Youth, Community, and Intergenerational Legacies
Dr Kat Simpson, The University of Huddersfield

Chair:  Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton

Showcase of exhibitions, displays and posters:

On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994
Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton

Coal: a record of an industry
Gary Winter, Historic England	

Poster of Mrs Sheila Truman
Daniella Law, Historic England

Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins – Exploring the Coal Collections at Glamorgan Archives
Rhian Diggins, Glamorgan Archives

When Coal was Clean: Soap and Smoke in Nineteenth Century Britain
Oliver Marshall	

Mining Disasters in the Village of Worsbrough
Maureen Gennard, Peter Fairham and David Bullock, Worsbrough Library Heritage Group
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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Chris Moores has reviewed my book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY at the American Historical Review. Read it here: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Reviewed Tehila Sasson's book and solipsistically my own hopeless approach to personal financing in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Really looking forward to hearing Alex Mayhew speak on this this Thursday at the IHR (5:30pm, in person and online). Sign up here!
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Sensemaking and Violence in Britain’s Mesopotamia Campaign during the First World War
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Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Thank you @aselmeyer.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to being an urban historian again :-)
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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Conference time! From protest routes to print networks, from imperial capitals to port cities, urban spaces were not just backdrops but engines of anticolonial struggle. Join us for the "Cities and Decolonization" conference in Oxford this week. More: citiesanddecolonization.com
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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The MA in Gender & Sexuality at the University of Birmingham is a rare thing: a chance to explore cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in queer, trans, feminist, and gender studies, with a practical placement built-in. #queerhistory #womenshistory www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr....
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Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA Gender and Sexuality taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested? onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...
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Talking about the British Empire and its Afterlives | University of Sussex Online Shop
In this workshop, led by a leading specialist on British colonialism and its afterlives, we will learn how to talk about Britain's colonial past with nuanc
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdfFull text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdfFull text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
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Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Can’t think of a better writer than David Wingrave to remind us to pay more attention to Cyprus, and the still too relevant legacies of empire in the Mediterranean, in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Weekend Essay www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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Cyprus, Iran and the long 20th century
A war is being fought around an island-colony we half-remember
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