These Black Feminist Residences at The Feminist Library look brilliant! They’re open to Black feminist artists, researchers, writers, or organisers in London. Deadline Oct 15th feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/07/29/b...

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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25 percent off and free shipping through August 6 at @hopkinspress.bsky.social with code HSUM26 - never been a better time to pre-order "A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200" ! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

A Full Measure of Freedom

The Black Press at 200

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Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

Over 150,000 came out in full force for London Trans+ Pride to say loud and clear: Trans rights are human rights 💖

Birkbeck Access to Postgraduate Study Scholarship for students with disabilities, refugee status, care leavers, single parents, carers, first generation, from minoritised communities | www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

We're delighted to announce that Somak Biswas has won the MBSA Early Career Prize for best presentation at #MBS2026, for a paper entitled ‘AIDS & the Racialisation of Mobility: Britain, 1985-1995’. The judges also highly commended Rebecca Orr & Naomi Samake-Bäckert modbritstud.org.uk/events-awards/

Really proud to be in this and glad it’s out in paperback!

Hurst Publishers@hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 2w ago

PB edition of the critically acclaimed ‘The Truth About Empire’ edited by @alanlester.bsky.social w/foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social out now! ‘Book of the Year’ @historyextra.bsky.social Extracted in @theguardian.com Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/38u2ndw3 & use code TRUTH20 for a 20% off in buy link.

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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‘Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one community and family after another.’ Susan Pedersen on the modern British city. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities

Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one...

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My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

I had the pleasure of reviewing Nadine Attwell's wonderful Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949 (www.sup.org/books/histor...) and also writing about women seafarers. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: Seafaring

Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers...

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What role do the humanities and social sciences play in tackling today's biggest challenges? The latest issue of the Journal of the British Academy explores climate action, higher education, the future of work, and more through interdisciplinary research. Read now 👉 https://bit.ly/3STRuXx

The important work carried out by DOMA in remembering the life and legacy of David Oluwale in Leeds is truly brilliant. Looking forward to Kennetta Hammond Perry’s forthcoming book!

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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‘Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented writers, but also recognises that their selections sometimes give the impression of being definitive.’ Christine Okoth on the Black British publisher. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Christine Okoth · How Things Should Go: Margaret Busby’s Books

Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented...

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The findings in Baroness Amos’ maternity report are desperately sad and frustrating. They reveal a maternal health system that has been systematically weakened and the results are that women and babies lose their lives unnecessarily.

'We can't continue like this': Inquiry demands NHS maternity overhaul

An independent inquiry into England's maternity services has found "unacceptable racism and discrimination" is affecting patient safety.

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'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

The Crisis in Britain’s Universities

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

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Seminar klaxon! 📣 We're delighted to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the seminar series on Tuesday 30th June, 4pm-5pm BST. Sylvia will be giving a paper titled, 'Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Woman's Oral History of West Africa'. Sign up using the link below: womenshistorynetwork.org/join-us-for-...

Join us for our next seminar, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa’ with Sylvia Arthur

We are very excited to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the Women’s History Network, who will be giving a paper titled, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa&…

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📣 Come join us at @ihr.bsky.social for last @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar of 2025/26. A great paper to end the term with @ruthdav.bsky.social speaking about her forthcoming book. Book via link below: Weds 24 June: 5.30pm, in-person only. See you there @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians

Women's welfare activism: Everyday power and politics in twentieth-century Britain

Contemporary British History Seminar

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If you are an ECR and gave a paper at #MBS26, please do send us your paper and slides for consideration for our 'Best ECR Paper' prize. Details on our website, www.modbritstud.org.uk

📢New article in JBS! 📗"The 'Asian Mother and Baby Campaign': Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain," by Saima Nasar Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.” Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter. “I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”

I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is what Ruth Wilson Gilmore called the “organised abandonment” of the poor. www.gov.uk/government/n...

450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools

Safe AI tutoring tools co-created with teachers to be available to schools by the end of 2027, helping to close the attainment gap.

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Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians

Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain

Women's History Seminar

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We're a way off publication (likely December this year) and this is not the cover, but it's exciting to see that our book has a web page! www.routledge.com/Reusing-Oral...

Reusing Oral Histories: From Archive to Analysis

Reusing Oral Histories is the first comprehensive guide available to scholars and students looking to analyse or reanalyse archived oral history interviews.   Oral history scholarship to date has been...

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OTD in 2020 the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protests. From the HW archives Madge Dresser revisits the statue's particular history. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/slavery/cols...

Colston Revisited

Madge Dresser argues that statues of slave traders, such as Edward Colston, often served complex local and civic objectives, which were inextricable from historical processes which silenced the voices...

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