“The geographies of the information research department”
Enjoyed this “critical geographical analysis” of British covert operations
And there’s me thinking that geography was just oxbow lakes and erosion!
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
I loved editing this piece which sheds light on such a fascinating piece of women's history.
Fascinating article here on the Catholic Church and the Vichy regime, and on competing visions of what it means to be French that persist to the present day.
thetablet.co.uk/features/the-shadow-of-vichy/
This is a wonderful article - and beautifully illustrated by Amber Winthrop of @uninorthampton.bsky.social!
📢 New out!
Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social argues for Black activism in Britain to be viewed through a more global lens.
#activism #anti-colonialism #anti-racism #BlackLiberationFront #BlackPower #decolonization #neocolonialism #Pan-Africanism
Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
📢 New out!
Nile Green shows how Meiji-era modern hotels served as mechanisms for an informal and amateur mode of learning about Japanese culture.
#tourism #inter-Asia #trans-imperial #travelwriting #arthistory #Japonisme #Shinto #Buddhism #Urdu #Persian
Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Congratulations - what an honour, and so well deserved!
📢We are delighted to announce that Zara Kesterton (@zarakesterton.bsky.social) has been jointly awarded The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Artificial Flowers in the Credit Records of an Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Merchant'
✨Hear Zara explain more in her HJ Highlight!
How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement?
Barbara Brayshay (@bbrayshay.bsky.social) and Saskia Papadakis (@sazpaps.bsky.social) introduce the OHEM archive which is now available @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Joseph Kony & the LRA are still out there: in their smallest form ever, but still surviving. In this piece for @theconversation.com, I argue why this is the case: borderlands &lack of political interest: theconversation.com/joseph-kony-...; based on this article: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
OTD in 1970, the first Women's Liberation Conference was held in Oxford. A watershed in the British feminist movement, attendees discussed equal pay, 24-hour childcare and free contraception.
In this piece from the archive, Chandan Fraser shares her memories of the event.
'The Return of the ‘Black Peril’', by Joseph Abraham, for @historyworkshop.org.uk.
Few in this country have worked to promote the understanding of race and class as historical phenomena in Britain as long, or as well, as Catherine Hall.
None of it is a fad. It is all politics, in the hard, real sense.
Entry on 'Propaganda' in the 'IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts'
What is propaganda? And what can the 20 most cited texts in political science from the past decade teach us about it?
I address these questions in a new open access entry to IPSA Companion to Political Science.
Freely available here:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The cover of the forthcoming book Colonial Negatives: Picturing History and Identity in Morocco by Patricia Goldsworthy. Bottom half of the image has an image of an oil seller in Fez surrounded by Muslim and Jewish Moroccans. The image highlights the religious diversity of the crowd, and demonstrates the dynamic nature of the Jewish district
I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.
'Scotland’s reform-minded landlords, styling themselves as improvers, sought to reshape Highland society by controlling what their tenants planted and how they kept and processed it.'
Cat Scothorne on the tensions between capitalism and local ecological knowledge.
This was such an exciting article to edit - a history of the Highland Clearances and the sustainable customs it left behind, written (literally) from the ground up.
Malcolm had plans to raise funds for liberation movements around the world, but they were cut short by his murder. I left these out of the article - it's hard to speculate as to what could have been - but they point to his increasingly global outlook, even if it was still flawed.
He used both! From April 1964 onward, he signed letters to Muslims with el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz and to non-Muslims with Malcolm X. The OAAU magazine, Blacklash, also switches between the two.
Edward Curtis mentions one name: Khalid Ahmad Tawfiq, who studied at Al-Azhar and later founded a successor organisation to the Muslim Mosque Inc called the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood. I'm not sure about any others, but it's possible and I'd also be really curious to know about their experiences!
I definitely wouldn't expect anyone to understand those stakes from a short visit - it's more that it struck me as an example of the hazardous world Malcolm was learning to inhabit!
Great question! Malcolm's public and private writing generally frames the dispute as between a conservative and reformist Islam. He doesn't refer to the more political stakes of Egypt's rivalry with the KSA, like sponsored rebels and proxy wars in Yemen, that gave that dispute a dangerous edge.
It was such a privilege to write this. The act of building solidarities across borders is never easy, and not always successful, but has always been deeply necessary.
On this day in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. A year earlier, his Africa-Middle East tour sought solidarity but drew him into rivalries he didn’t fully grasp, writes @alexjwhite.bsky.social
Learn more about the discovery process behind our current exhibition, Love Letters.
From structured research to serendipitous finds — three specialists and a volunteer share the thrill of uncovering heartfelt emotions centuries later: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/
What does history have to offer to a world beset by upheaval?
@lauracforster.bsky.social, @julialaite.bsky.social, Laura Schwartz, Anne Irfan and Jo Kelcey consider the complexities of this question in our new podcast 🎙️
