We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is coming out in October. You can preorder it from Waterstones with a 25% discount today and tomorrow! Place your order here ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/an-inju...

I wrote a book about how Liverpool’s modern history helps us think differently about Britain’s twentieth century - how it demands histories of wagelessness, environment ruin, obsolescence and new forms of resistance. It’s out in paperback today!

Something I wrote for @antipodeonline.bsky.social, looking at the Soweto Uprising's impact on antiracist struggles in Britain, and how apartheid analogies helped reinforce anticolonial consciousness - with echoes in the present Palestine solidarity movement antipodeonline.org/2026/07/13/b...

Intervention — “Biko in Britain: Transnational Black Consciousness from Soweto to Southall” - Antipode Online

by Alfie Hancox [T]he empathy between the Black oppressed transcends the barriers of parochialism [and] reaches those similarly oppressed in Toxteth, Tottenham, Brixton, Soweto… (Gilroy et al. 1986, 1...

antipodeonline.org

Something I wrote for @antipodeonline.bsky.social, looking at the Soweto Uprising's impact on antiracist struggles in Britain, and how apartheid analogies helped reinforce anticolonial consciousness - with echoes in the present Palestine solidarity movement antipodeonline.org/2026/07/13/b...

Intervention — “Biko in Britain: Transnational Black Consciousness from Soweto to Southall” - Antipode Online

by Alfie Hancox [T]he empathy between the Black oppressed transcends the barriers of parochialism [and] reaches those similarly oppressed in Toxteth, Tottenham, Brixton, Soweto… (Gilroy et al. 1986, 1...

antipodeonline.org

My paper featured as part of the 'Political Movements and the Afterlife of Empire' panel, also featuring brilliant presentations from @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social and @alfiehancox.bsky.social, plus @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social as chair!