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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New Current Debates essay published advance access by @jich.bsky.social In 'Failing into "Aimperial" Space' Allen Fromherz considers the American-Israeli war against Iran. doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Failing into ‘Aimperial’ Space: The United States, Iran, and the Gulf

The Gulf is an “aimperial” space at the “center of the world.” It is neither anti-imperial, it benefits from trade linking empires, nor on the frontier, its space is well known. Instead, the people...

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I mars 2024 omtalte Aftenposten meg som ekstrem fordi jeg mente at politikerne ikke skal sette mål for antall aborter i Norge, og at må være opp til den enkelte kvinne. I juni 2026 omtalte Aftenposten deltakerne på Norgesdemokratenes massedeportasjonskonferanse for «omstridte gjester».

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Our latest Current Debates article is now out! In "Singularity by Other Means: Germany’s Colonial Question and the Bureaucracy of Memory" Yutong Li discusses how disputes over colonial memory is resolved bureaucratically rather than scholarly. doi.org/10.1080/0308... Open Access for a limited time

Our latest Current Debates article is now out! In "Singularity by Other Means: Germany’s Colonial Question and the Bureaucracy of Memory" Yutong Li discusses how disputes over colonial memory is resolved bureaucratically rather than scholarly. doi.org/10.1080/0308... Open Access for a limited time

Our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay is now out, on the occasion of the United States Semiquincentennial. In this magisterial piece Professor Priya Satia considers the global origins of anti-monarchical traditions and how it influenced American republicanism. doi.org/10.1080/0308...

The Other Republicans: Anti-Monarchical Movements in the World in the Era of America’s Independence

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism www.mpifg.de/events/45467...

Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism

In the face of exploding investments into the weapons industry, the rise of the AfD, and the silence in the face of plausible genocide, Kai Koddenbrock’s talk explores how these old and more recent…

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Call for papers - Current Debates @jich.bsky.social See announcement on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Our latest Current Debates article is now out! "The Palace Letters to Sir William Deane: Royal Secrecy and Archival Compliance" by Neville D Yeomans and Jenny Hocking is free to read, share and download for a limited period. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jich.bsky.social

The Palace Letters to Sir William Deane: Royal Secrecy and Archival Compliance

In May 2022, the High Court of Australia ruled that the correspondence between Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II constituted Commonwealth records and not ‘personal’ records as t...

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Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! "Trump Completely Misunderstands the Lessons of the British Empire" by @alanlester.bsky.social. It is free to read, share and download for a limited time. doi.org/10.1080/0308... @jich.bsky.social

Trump Completely Misunderstands the Lessons of the British Empire

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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3/3 friendship, and investment – a trend that should be welcomed and encouraged.” So much for the plan. For more on Trump's disregard of his own security strategy, and what he gets so wrong about global power (hopefully with opening sentence corrected soon): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump Completely Misunderstands the Lessons of the British Empire

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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2/3 “The days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy are thankfully over … it is no longer the constant irritant and potential source of of imminent catastrophe, that it once was. It ... is rather emerging as a place of partnership, …

1/3 Believe it or not, this is in Trump's National Security Strategy: “America will always have core interests in ensuring that … the Strait of Hormuz remain open”. Also, Trump hits back at 'unpatriotic' vote after House rebukes him over Iran www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump hits back at 'unpatriotic' vote after House rebukes him over Iran

The lower chamber of Congress passed a measure that seeks to halt further military action, in a vote seen as largely symbolic.

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We are always looking for pitches for @jich.bsky.social new Current Debates section. Do not hesitate to get in touch and please share widely. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The brilliant Sadiyah Qureshi delivered a thoughtprovoking lecture entitled "Extinction's Futures" at yesterday's Aylmer Lecture organised by the University of York's Department of History.

Følte meg litt creepy på Ark Beyer idag, men måtte selvsagt skaffe meg boka til @oarn.bsky.social! Gleder meg til å lese Morð, mens kona pugger til anatomieksamen.

This, from Nick Kristof, is required reading www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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'The continued investments in companies that actively contribute to Israel’s violations of international law equals accepting these mass atrocities.' www.middleeasteye.net/news/crimina...

Criminal complaint filed against Norwegian politicians over complicity in Gaza genocide

Exclusive: Prosecutors recommend police investigation into Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and cabinet members

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Happy May Day!

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social @owenjdowling.bsky.social reviews 'Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World' by @meltorrent.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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JICH has returned to Q1 for 2025, according to latest ScimagoJR rankings. Well done to our dedicated team, and looking forward to maintaining this through 2026 and beyond! @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social

Our most recent Current Debates essay is now out! In "Aporias of Decolonial Anti-Imperialism" doi.org/10.1080/0308... Sindre Bangstad offers a critique of the internal contradictions of decolonial theorists handling of non-Western imperialism and settler colonialism. @jich.bsky.social

The Aporias of Decolonial Anti-imperialism

Following the 2015 #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa and amidst calls to «decolonize academia», decolonial theory has become increasingly read and cited in many academic disciplines. But as ...

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CALL FOR INTERVIEWEES I'm looking to conduct research interviews with people who were involved in Anti-Apartheid, anti-Vietnam War, &/or Chile solidarity politics in Britain, for my PhD on international solidarity & the Cold War-era UK left (see below). PLEASE SHARE/get in touch!

It's here! Issue 2 for 2026 is published - check out JICH Vol. 54(2) now: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volume 54, Issue 2 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Pleased that my review of 'Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World' by Melanie Torrent (Bloomsbury, 2024) in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) is now available online! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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New and #OpenAccess, check out 'From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997' by Tracy H. C. Leung: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997

Using unexamined Girl Guide publications, government papers and oral history testimonies, this article examines how the role of the Girl Guide movement changed throughout late colonial Hong Kong. I...

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Really enjoyed listening to @markusmindrebo.bsky.social who delivered a magisterial lecture on the evolving cultural depictions of Viking women. An absolute treat on a Tuesday evening (at Stavanger Archaeological Museum)! @unistavanger.bsky.social

It's getting real! Mock up book cover designs are in for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" (Liverpool UP, 2026)

America will defeat Trump in a million brilliant ways...

𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝@nashishereforit.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wow.