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Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 3w ago

YES! I bloody love Asterix

YES! I bloody love Asterix

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 4w ago

The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice

🚨ONE MORE WEEK till our book launch for Military Humanitarianism!🚨 @briandrohan.bsky.social 5.30pm — 17th June — Bristol We’ll be joined by fantastic speakers to celebrate, @asobocinska.bsky.social, Grace Huxford and @bennetthuw.bsky.social 🙌 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/military-h...

'Military Humanitarianism' Book Launch

Join us in Bristol to celebrate the launch of our edited volume 'Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations & Armed Forces'

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Today, we launch a new featured series called Rethinking Internationalisms. In this introductory article, Ria Kapoor, Jessica Reinisch, Margot Tudor and Daniel Laqua ask, how can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered?

Rethinking Internationalisms

How can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered? This article introduces the new 'Rethinking Internationalisms' featured series.

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Roundtable on Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire, with Susan Pedersen, @asobocinska.bsky.social, @emma-edin.bsky.social; and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, chaired by @colmpm.bsky.social 5.30pm, 14 May at IHR @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book launch of Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

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I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press

The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

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really chuffed to be included on this LA times best books to read in April and among SUCH great titles. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

10 books to read in April, including Jay McInerney's latest and a Rolling Stones biography

This spring's most anticipated titles include a Rolling Stones biography, new Emma Straub fiction, wartime tales, a long-awaited finale from Jay McInerney and more. Catch four of the authors live at t...

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We have organised a series of exciting events throughout March for our Rethinking Internationalism project, including an in-person conference at Birkbeck on 19th-20th. For more details and information on tickets, see our website: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

March 'Rethinking Internationalism' Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism

Join us for a series of events throughout March 2026 to conclude our 'Rethinking Internationalism' grant project, including an in-person conference hosted at Birkbeck, a public lecture, and a publishi...

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Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

📣 CFP for a workshop I’m co-convening with UGM as part of the DEVHIST project in Yogya on 8-10 September 2026. Travel support is available for Indonesian and intl speakers. Please share!!

Published next month in our Modern British Histories series (though available earlier online via Cambridge Core), Matthew Hilton's Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development. Essential reading for our times. #Skystorians

Charity After Empire

Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire

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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History

YouTube video by University of Exeter

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I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia

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💫 Open access from 21 August! 💫 Years in the works, 17 international authors - RETHINKING HISTORIES OF INDONESIA: EXPERIENCING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING COLONIALITY press.anu.edu.au/publications... Look forward to sharing my latest research on colonial violence & war photography soon 🇮🇩 📷

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

New Methods for New Histories (Online)

Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

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Why book a flight—or a reading room? I take the train, retrieve the files, and deliver bespoke scans from UK archives, so you can stay in your armchair and focus on your research. 🗂️ digitisedarchive.co.uk #Twitterstorians #MedEd #historyofscience #MedHist #histSTM #historyofmedicine #scicomm

My article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation

In 1961, West Papuan leaders declared their intent to become an independent nation in opposition to both Dutch colonial control and Indonesia’s campaign to incorporate the territory into its Republ...

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We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...

Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) at King's College London

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jo...

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I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️

Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · last yr.

As US aid falters, the crisis of liberal internationalism deepens. What comes next when even its strongest institutions can no longer hold the facade together? africasacountry.com/2025/03/libe...

Hey that’s my file! But HOW do you make them look so pretty?

HUGE thanks to every single presenter/chair/attendee for making the past two days so inspiring and friendly. It was brilliant to catch up with old friends and to make so many new ones! More to come from our AHRC Rethinking Internationalism project so watch this space…

Margot Tudor@drmargottudor.bsky.social · last yr.

Our AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms’, hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, began this morning and we’ve already had fantastic panels on race, space, religious, and Mexican internationalisms. More to come after the coffee break! It’s a gorgeous day in Newcastle ☀️☀️☀️

A brilliant start to our AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms project, with generous and thoughtful contributions. Daniel Laqua did an amazing job with our first outing, and he, @drmargottudor.bsky.social , @jessicareinisch.bsky.social and I look forward to continuing these conversations. Stay tuned!

Margot Tudor@drmargottudor.bsky.social · last yr.

Our AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms’, hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, began this morning and we’ve already had fantastic panels on race, space, religious, and Mexican internationalisms. More to come after the coffee break! It’s a gorgeous day in Newcastle ☀️☀️☀️

#Skystorians #AcademicSky #History We’re delighted to be supporting the AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past’, which is taking place at @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week. Programme here research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341

On Thursday!

Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next week, Elisabeth Leake, the Lee E Dirks Chair in History at Tufts' Fletcher School of Diplomacy, will be speaking @qmul.ac.uk She will be talking about global histories of Decolonisation. It's free to attend, with a reception after. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoloniza...

Excited that the first article of my ongoing research project on the history of Indian women in rural development has been published in Comparativ. If you cannot access it and are interested to read, let me know. @unierfurt.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social www.comparativ.net/v2/article/v...

Gendered Development Work and Non-State Primary Healthcare Provisions: The Skippo Medical Van Scheme in Rural India, c. 1940s to mid-1970s

This article focuses on gendered rural development work in late colonial and early post-colonial India. Next to the question of livelihood generation and education, the issue of health and hence of wo...

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Looking forward to this one :)

Ria Kapoor@riakapoor.bsky.social · 2y ago

@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

We recently had the pleasure of @sandrinekott.bsky.social's company at Birkbeck - and now I'm thrilled that her new edited book is out in the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series, open access & free to download www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Here is the English translation of my essay on South Asian humanitarian aid under colonial rule. It provides some insights of my forthcoming book on this theme with CUP this summer. www.voluntariness.org/giving-as-an...

Giving as an Act of Voluntariness? - voluntariness.org

Blog post by Maria Franke on motives, circumstances and challenges of voluntary humanitarian aid in late colonial India.

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This is ridiculously good company to be in. Thanks @susieprotschky.bsky.social!

Susie Protschky@susieprotschky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very happy with how my seminar reading list for the course ‘International Organisations’ is shaping up @asobocinska.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social