What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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I spoke to @france24.com this evening about the racist riots in Belfast. These are the images of the city being broadcast to audiences across the world. youtu.be/sxvZtVefF0c?...

UK watchdog warns online platforms as Belfast riots go viral • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Belfast City Centre a complete ghost town tonight. Nearly all the businesses closed earlier this afternoon. City holding its breath for what might or might not happen this evening, with endless fake threats of road closures doing the rounds from the far right.

Anaka Collective have set up a crowdfund now for helping support victims of the pogrom. chuffed.org/project/1854...

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨 🎉 Launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" (Special Issue) & "Unmarried Sisters" (Podcast Series) 📆 Friday 10 July (early evening) 📍 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin 🗣️ Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor & more

With the Modern British Studies conference at Birmingham again next week, it was a pleasure to write this blog about my past research on multicultural Britain and my new project which takes me back to my Irish roots modbritstud.org.uk/notes-from-t...

Notes from the North of Ireland - The Modern British Studies Association

In January 2015 I took up my first permanent academic job as a lecturer in contemporary British history at Queen’s University Belfast.  A few months earlier I had made the trip over from Birmingham, w...

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Was good to join Shane Beatty on the Newstalk podcast to discuss our new project on 100 years of Irish diversity. Listen below www.newstalk.com/podcasts/new...

The Long History of Multiculturalism In Ireland | Newstalk

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I was on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback today with @williamcrawley.bsky.social talking about "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" - listen here from 12:47pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio Ulster - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio Ulster on BBC Sounds

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Sadly of immediate relevance

Jack Crangle@jcrangle.bsky.social · last yr.

New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

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...

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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Excellent piece by @kieranconnell.bsky.social on Ireland’s multicultural history in @irishexaminer.bsky.social. I’m so thrilled to be CI on this AHRC-funded project and to get to work with Kieran and @jcrangle.bsky.social on uncovering Ireland’s rich history of diversity over the past 100 years.

Kieran Connell@kieranconnell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

Chairing this online session at 5.30pm. All welcome!

Ben Mechen@benmechen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tomorrow at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Lukas Herde for a paper on ageing, sexuality and gender on British television from the 1970s to 1990s. It will be on Zoom at 17.30, all welcome. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England" New #openaccess article by our Dr Barry Hazley, co-authored with @jcrangle.bsky.social, Graham Dawson, Liam Harte + Fearghus Roulston in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excellent opportunity! Hannah is fab! #skystorians

Gareth Millward@millieqed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My friend (<- they don't get to deny this) @sexhistorian.bsky.social is advertising for a PhD stipend. It's an amazing project at an amazing department with amazing supervisors, and if you know anyone suitable, let them know. www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

early thoughts on ‘Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation’! 🥰 I am hearing that copies are starting to land stateside already… official publication date is April 15 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Belfastmen by Tom Hulme | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay righ...

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Danny Barreto@danburrito.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congrats! Just finished the intro. Such a caring representation of these men’s personhood and the city. Can’t wait to read the rest when the printed book arrives.

Come join us @oralhistoryie.bsky.social for #oralhistory training in Maynooth!

Oral History Network Ireland@oralhistoryie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 Join the Oral History Network of Ireland for a full-day, in-person #oralhistory workshop: Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach. 🗓️ Date: Friday 6th March 2026 🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM 📍Location: Maynooth University, Co. Kildare 🎟️ €50 (OHNI Members) / €70 (Non-members)

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries

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Tiger Bay, 1950, Cardiff's oldest multi-ethnic community, photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post.

Many thanks to @jcrangle.bsky.social for this generous appraisal.

Jack Crangle@jcrangle.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Review in IHS of Shane Lynn’s book about Irish nationalists and the South African War. Recommended read.

Thanks so much @niamhcullen.bsky.social for the lovely review of my book ❤️

Niamh Cullen@niamhcullen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Delighted to see that my review of Laura Kelly’s brilliant book Contraception and Modern Ireland is out with @irishhiststudies.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Essential reading for anyone working on histories of gender, feminism, contraception and Catholicism

Review in IHS of Shane Lynn’s book about Irish nationalists and the South African War. Recommended read.

📣 We’re hiring! The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team. 🔗 Details below: #AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs

Job Vacancy: Research Fellow, 1660-1832 House of Lords - The History of Parliament

The History of Parliament are excited to advertise for a research fellow to join our House of Lords 1660-1832 project.

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Just released - the preliminary program for @deindustrialpol.bsky.social's June 18-20 conference in Montreal on "(Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment." Check it out! deindustrialization.org/depot2025con...

Thank you Charlie - all the best for 2026!

Charlie Lynch@charlielynch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of the best things I read in 2025. Jack Crangle’s systematic uncovering of the comforting lies a society told itself, “No race hate here?” Irish national identity and racism in the mid-twentieth century.’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

Looking forward to chairing this online event tomorrow. Lots of fascinating research in this book. All welcome.

Contemporary British History seminar@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Still time to register for the final seminar of the term. Online at 5.30pm UK time tomorrow (Wed 3rd Dec). @d-j-frost.bsky.social will be joined by contributors to his & @evansmithhist.bsky.social's new edited collection about the British far left since 1956. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Ahead of Tuesday’s shindig, here’s a video of me talking about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN and what it means to be shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social prize. A big thank you to Gordon, the videographer who somehow made me sitting in my tiny office look cinematic 🎬

All set for this evening’s seminar for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social with Dr Katerina Papakonstantinou. Looking forward to hearing her fascinating paper, & thanks to our fab Chair Prof Pat Thane & Term programme organiser @helenglew.bsky.social

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning" In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social

Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

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QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST