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Jonas Fossli Gjersø

@jonasgjerso.bsky.social

Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.

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Gareth Knapman@garethknapman.bsky.social · 3d ago

History 101 and why history is a revisionist discipline. The letter below is why archives are selective. It’s survived because somebody decided to keep the evidence. Even as late as the 1970s, it was seen as too incendiary. A deliberate murder by Police of Aboriginal prisoners in the 1890s.

Book. Thank you for lending me this old Letter Do you realise just what a load of dynamite it 1s? Can't you imagine it falling into the hands of a journalist and some of the extracts being printed for public consumptiont There is one extract which refers to the police shooting of orisoners ....• how would that be in print? Much though I would like to write a story around some of the contents I realise that this is not possible. Hang on to this letterbook whatever you do - so many of them have been destroyed. By the way there is an old Journal, I think from Innamincka, in the Willunga Old Court House Museum. How on earth It landed there I do not know, but it is there for all and sundry to examine. I am dead against that. a heap of old Journals recently at Riverton, and some of the information in them are not fit to be put on public display - certainly descendants still alive. If and when the time comes that you have no further use for the old Letter book I would suggest that you consider putting it in the Archives. As soon as I can get to town I shall get you a photo of two of the men written up in the book - wurmbrand and Wilshire. I showed the photo at one time to my father and he knew both names well• wurmbrand was an Austrian, I understand. Incidentally, from what bad name in the north for shooting prisoners. Dad told me both these man had a rather I think Wilshire left some records in theform of memoirs and that these are in the Archives. This, too, I shall look for when next in town. Once again, many thanks for the loan of a particularly valuable and interesting volume. Yours sincerely,
Olivia Mitchell@livsmitch.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very happy to say that my new article is now published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social This has a been a long time coming based on one of my favourite sections of my PhD thesis. Please give it a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘The Smallest Monarch in the World’: Othering, Indirect Rule and Depictions of the Heights of the Begums of Bhopal in the Imperial Press, 1872–1914

This article examines how the imperial press promoted othering in its documentation of the Nawab Begums of Bhopal. While stereotyping was largely based on the racial and gendered categorisation of ...

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Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 2w ago

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø@jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 4w ago

In our latest Current Debates discussion piece in @jich.bsky.social entitled "Migration, Integration and Riot in Britain: An Historical Perspective" Panikos Panayi reflects upon the history of British anti-migrant discourse. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Migration, Integration and Riot in Britain: An Historical Perspective

Migrants have created Britain despite the current hostility which has surfaced and manifested itself most disturbingly in rioting against a variety of groups, including those seeking refugee status...

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Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last mo.

Two years since becoming the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social. It has been fun, with a lot of books reviewed. Please pitch to me your book reviews!

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to announce that I will be the new book reviews editor for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, starting in 2025. If you are interested in reviewing a book, or have recently published a book, on imperial/colonial history, please get in touch!

Jonas Fossli Gjersø@jonasgjerso.bsky.social · last mo.

In our latest Current Debates essay entitled "The Marine Origins of Contemporary Warfare", Rahul Govind discusses how imperial practices couched in international law and Western notions of the 'right of conquest' derives from prize law. doi.org/10.1080/0308... @jich.bsky.social

The Marine Origins of Contemporary Warfare

I would like to draw a genealogy of Donald Trump's rhetoric and military action in Venezuela and Iran, in particular, of how the acquisition of the resources of another country through a military o...

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Jay Roszman@jayroszman.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow, this is an absolutely fascinating article and does what all good history should do - complicated simplistic narratives to reveal a more holistic understanding of the past. Kudos @brian-hanley.bsky.social!

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History@jich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the latest debate essay '‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context' by Brian Hanley: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Jay Roszman@jayroszman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️

Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History@jich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the latest debate essay '‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context' by Brian Hanley: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context

The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

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Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last mo.

So #historians, I might ask again - what are your weird archival finds? On the National Archives of Australia website, I found this digitised WWII-era letter to the Prime Minister complaining about enemy aliens in Australia, which then goes into rant about women smoking. #archives #history 🗃️

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Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last mo.

Five years since I wrote this piece on the archival finds that made historians got ‘wut?’. I asked on Twitter and got hundreds of replies. Still one of my most read pieces. theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...

Jonas Fossli Gjersø@jonasgjerso.bsky.social · last mo.

PPE Forum - bruken av viking-estetikk i dag! 2. nov. 12:15, universitetsbiblioteket UiS. Uttrykk for en inkluderende eller ekskluderende nasjonalisme? På panelet: Markus Eldegard Mindrebø, Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap; Ellen Hagen, Arkeologisk museum; og Inger Undheim, Garborgsenteret.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø@jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our latest Current Debates essay in @jich.bsky.social is now out! In his piece entitled "‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context" @brian-hanley.bsky.social explores the evolution of Zionist sympathies in Ireland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context

The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

tandfonline.com

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For anyone interested in the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party and Living Marxism, here is a lengthy article that I wrote a little while ago about it all. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Platform for Working Class Unity? The Revolutionary Communist Party’s The Red Front and the pre-history of Living Marxism/Spiked Online in the 1980s

In recent years, one of the most controversial stories on the British left is the trajectory of the far left Trotskyist group, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) to the libertarian/contrarian ...

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Ana Stevenson@dranastevenson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This year marks the 70th anniversary of South Africa's 1956 Women’s March against extending the dompas to black women. Thanks to @africanarguments.bsky.social for sharing our reflection on the unfinished legacies of women’s activism at the end of Women's Month. africanarguments.org/2026/09/wath...

Wathint’ abafazi 70 years on | African Arguments

Seventy years after the 1956 Women's March, South Africa still celebrates men's anti-apartheid struggle and pushes women's activism to the margins. The cost is visible now.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø@jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New Current Debates essay published in @jich.bsky.social (advance digital access). In 'Is this the End of Settler Colonialism?' Joyce Dalsheim responds to Lorenzo Veracini's contention that the Gaza Genocide marks the end of Israeli settler colonialism. doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Is this the End of Settler Colonialism? A Response to Veracini

This essay takes issue with Lorenzo Veracini’s argument in this journal that the violence and destruction in Gaza following October 7, 2023 marks the failure of Israeli settler colonialism. More im...

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