We have a brand new article from Ali Reza Din entitled 'Contesting multiculturalism: the Bradford Asian Youth Movement, Honeyford, Halal, and the Bradford 12'. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Contesting multiculturalism: the Bradford Asian Youth Movement, Honeyford, Halal, and the Bradford 12

This article examines the Bradford Asian Youth Movement (AYM) through three contests of the early 1980s: the Honeyford Affair, in which Asian parents and pupils opposed assimilationist education; t...

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OUT TODAY in hardback/e-book - 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing: Insiders, Outsiders, and Ringsiders' by our Dr Dave Dee, published by @academic.oup.com and with research funded by @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de (1) global.oup.com/academic/pro... play.google.com/store/books/...

A message from Matthew Stibbe, editor-in-chief, to mark the sudden passing of Don MacRaild. www.tandfonline.com/journals/fim...

Our Dr Dave Dee's new book with @academic.oup.com, 'Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing' is now available electronically (subscription required), prior to the publication of the hard copy in July 2026: academic.oup.com/book/62965?s... global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing: Insiders, Outsiders, and Ringsiders

Abstract. This book provides the first sustained historical analysis of migrant and minority participation in British boxing from the eighteenth century to

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The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

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Sergey S. Akhmetov & Laila S. Akhmetova have published their new article ‘Between empire and tribe: transboundary rivalries of Kazakh elites on the Ili frontier, 1862-1871’. Read via the link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Between empire and tribe: transboundary rivalries of Kazakh elites on the Ili frontier, 1862–1871

This article examines how intra-clan rivalry among Kazakh elites shaped cross-border movement and political alignment on the Ili frontier between 1862 and 1871. Focusing on the Atban clan, it analy...

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Delighted to see that @kabcommons.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026! 'Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship was runner-up for IHR's Pollard Prize in 2024 bit.ly/4dCS8iN

‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship*

Abstract. Whether or not people in early modern England were citizens has often been analysed in terms of individuals’ participation in self-rule, neglecti

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‘A highly informative historical perspective on the factors that drove Caribbean migration to post-war Britain’. Read Karl Arthur’s review of Ryan Walmsley’s Oceans of feeling: an emotional history of Caribbean migrants in post-war Britain (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oceans of feeling: an emotional history of Caribbean migrants in post-war Britain

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Really happy to see that the webpage for my next book (No. 5), 'Cypriot Migration to Australia until 1952' is available! brill.com/display/titl...

Alexandria Innes reviews 'Diasporic futures: temporality and hope in the transnational politics of London Cypriots' by Evi Chatzipanagiotidou (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diasporic futures: temporality and hope in the transnational politics of London Cypriots

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Me on the British empire, Cyprus & why the past still matters. For the AAH. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Andrekos Varnava FAHA on why the past still matters

Professor Andrekos Varnava is an expert on the British Empire. He shares his research and why knowing history is integral for the future.

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Nice to announce my next book will be co-authored with Mike Hajimichael after being contracted to Anthem. The title is: 'EOKA and Political Murders in Colonial Cyprus: The Mob Killing of Savvas Menikos'. For a preview, watch our talk from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlte...

Professors Varnava and Hajimichael talk on the mob killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958 by EOKA.

YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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The Laws of War: Justice, Rights, and Ethics in Military Contexts url:https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/135/media/1004/incarceration-in-britain-and-its-empire Happy to share my @boapublishing.bsky.social article on ‘Incarceration in Britain and its Empire’

Many thanks to Marina Karpozilou at @kathimerini.gr for the great write up! www.kathimerini.gr/society/repo... @anthempress.bsky.social

Η άγνωστη ιστορία των Ικαριωτών στην Αυστραλία

Ο Γιάννης Κάρτλετζ, συγγραφέας του βιβλίου «Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945», φωτίζει μια λιγότερο γνωστή πτυχή της ελληνικής διασποράς: την παρουσία Ικαριωτών στη Νότια Αυστραλία ήδη από τις α...

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Issue 1 for 2026 (Vol. 54) is out now! ‪It is a special issue, edited by Mona Rudolph & Nina Kleinöder on: 'Business and Labour in German Colonialism'. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Just in time for St Patrick's Day, a little piece I wrote about Ireland's Italian chippers. italysegreta.com/how-italians...

How Italians Came to Run Ireland’s Chippers - Italy Segreta

From Italian villages to Irish chippers: the story of families who fried, served, and shaped a nation’s taste.

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‘Ugolini’s close personal connections with her subject matter shine through the pages….’ Louise Miskell reviews Wendy Ugolini’s Wales in England, 1914-1945. (2024). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BOOK REVIEW

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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‘Daly has produced a highly readable, and often poignant, account of those Italian emigrants...' Wendy Ugolini reviews Selena Daly’s Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians abroad in the First World War (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Book review of emigrant soldiers

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Alexandra Wilson reviews 'The Glyndebourne Émigrés: operatic mobilities in southern England, 1934-1940' edited by Nils Grosch and Beth Snyder, (Liverpool University Press, 2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Glyndebourne Émigrés: operatic mobilities in southern England, 1934-1940

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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I am immensely grateful for such an amazing review from such an esteemed scholar in the field! It is wonderful to see how well the book has been received so far: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität zwischen 1914 und 1924

Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Some weekend reading. #Internment

We are very sorry to learn of the death, earlier this month, of the historian, Professor Anthony Fletcher (1941-2026). A Fellow @royalhistsoc.org since 1976, Anthony was a leading scholar of early modern England. Between 2000-05 he also served as General Editor of @vch-home.bsky.social #Skystorians

"It's impossible to be non-politicised in Cyprus after 1955. But once you leave and move to London, it’s television media, letters to your family back home…you know what’s going on. It’s traumatizing you." thelausanneproject.com/2025/12/12/p...

PODCAST – Episode 76: The Cypriot Diaspora

In the third of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Panikos Panayi and Giorgios Charalambous trace how Cypriots have made lives for themselves across the…

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Delighted to have received my De Montfort University 35 year long service award. Thank you to all staff and students who have helped me on the way.

Despite anti-refugee misinformation, we see in our frontline services every day how refugees already contribute massively to the UK. Our CEO Enver Solomon in The Standard for the "Who's at your table?" campaign with Comic Relief ⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/comment/enve...

Enver Solomon: 'When we hear the word ‘refugee’ do we think ‘giver’?'

Despite misinformation that characterises refugees as a burden, their massive contribution to London is what makes the city the thriving metropolis it is today

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We know why people come to the UK: because they already have family here, they speak some English, or they have long-standing ties that help them rebuild their lives in safety.

Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE! In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India. Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA

New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d

When is a refugee not a refugee? — Refugee History.

England’s ‘proud history’ of welcoming refugees is regularly invoked in contemporary debates about refugees in Britain. Public and academic histories of pre-modern migration to England support this no...

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reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow 5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR @profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Introduction to the Migration and Mobility Seminar

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Kathleen Commons@kabcommons.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!