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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 21h

Back yard cricket…

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 5d

My cover of a largely forgotten yet beautiful song my @YusufCatStevens on happiness needing only nature, love and God to flourish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE9...

Cover of 'Land o' Free Love & Goodbye', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from his album 'Numbers' (1975)

YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 9d

Start with knowing what happened to bring about the division. Start here direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

A Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil War

Abstract. A case study of the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967) demonstrates that existing scholarly definitions of civil war are inadequate. The arbitrary death thresholds that qualify conflicts for incl...

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 9d

EOKA people have been profiting from controlling the Republic of Cyprus since 1960 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?

70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you to Michael Roberts, an anthropologist who worked at Uni of Adelaide, for this blog. thuppahis.com/2025/07/28/f...

Featuring Andrekos Varnava’s Swathe of Political Studies

Andrekos Varnava is a Greek Cypriot and it has been the privilege of Flinders University in Adelaide and Australia-at-large to have him researching and teaching in their various reaches. CYPRUS is …

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 27d

Fascism in Cyprus masked as national liberation. See my essay www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?

70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

www.tandfonline.com

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 27d

My essay on EOKA might be of interest www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?

70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

www.tandfonline.com

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 27d

My essay might be of interest www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?

70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

www.tandfonline.com

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 25

Believe the unbelievable

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 23

There are wild rabbits in the gorge around the campus! But no. Specialist game meat butcher. Also got 🐊

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 23

Wild rabbit stifado with saffron rice.

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 19

Nice to be elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

30 New Fellows elected to Humanities Academy – Australian Academy of the Humanities

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has today announced the election of 30 new Fellows. Election to the Academy is the highest honour in the humanities in Australia, recognising scholars whose wo...

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 14

Cypriot Zaladina! Cyprus on my plate!

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 10

Today 17 years ago I was being interviewed for the post of Lecturer in Modern History at Flinders Uni. It seems like yesterday.

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 8

I preordered mine. I’ve heard it is available in book stores.

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Nov 2

Well done to the entire Team!

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Nov 2

We are proud to share that JICH has received over 58k downloads in 2025's 3rd quarter - a 76% increase from this time last year! Well done to our editorial team and all our supporters - @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Nov 2

We are proud to share that JICH has received over 58k downloads in 2025's 3rd quarter - a 76% increase from this time last year! Well done to our editorial team and all our supporters - @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Oct 24

A great result. Peace needs truth before reconciliation. This might help. direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

A Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil War

Abstract. A case study of the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967) demonstrates that existing scholarly definitions of civil war are inadequate. The arbitrary death thresholds that qualify conflicts for incl...

direct.mit.edu

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Oct 24

Peace needs truth before reconciliation. This might help. direct.mit.edu/jinh/article...

A Civil War by Any Other Name? Building a Qualitative Model to Support Quantitative Datasets: The Cypriot Civil War

Abstract. A case study of the Cypriot Civil War (1963–1967) demonstrates that existing scholarly definitions of civil war are inadequate. The arbitrary death thresholds that qualify conflicts for incl...

direct.mit.edu

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Oct 22

Yesterday my students and I completed our second week learning about the Cambodian Genocide. We realised that this year was 50 years since the Khmer Rouge came to power and that at least here in Australia this passed with little if no acknowledgment…

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Oct 20

In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII.

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chapter
7
Liverpool’s Chinese Community: the Second World
War, Exile, and Repatriation
Andrew Williams

The forced repatriation of Chinese seamen at the end of the Second World War
from Liverpool, in Northwest England, was the subject of a long- form journalistic
investigation in 2021, published in The Guardian newspaper.1 A few weeks
later, Liverpool Labour mp Kim Johnson raised it in Parliament. She called
on the Conservative government to launch an inquiry into the affair and to
acknowledge that in the case of these men, and the families they left behind,
‘justice delayed’ was ‘justice denied.’2 In response, the Home Office – the
department responsible for immigration – pledged to investigate the actions
of its antecedents in conspiring to repatriate hundreds of Chinese men after
Britain had defeated fascism in Europe and Asia.
Liverpool’s Chinese community has always been centred in its Chinatown,
which is claimed to be the oldest in Europe, although substantive historical
investigations into this community are few and far between. Perhaps the best
account has been written by Maria Lin Wong, whom in 1989 published a history
based primarily on oral testimony.3 Gregory B. Lee, a Chinese studies scholar,
has published other research, approaching the history of the community from
a postcolonial studies perspective.4 Even fewer publications directly address
the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen after the Second World War. Wong
made only brief mention of it based on what she was told and would have been
unable to explore it any further as the archival sources had not been released
to the public at the time. John Belchem, in his valuable history of race relations
in twentieth- century Liverpool, did provide an account of the repatriation, but..

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Oct 19

My talk on 12 Oct 2025 “Cypriot Migration to Australia until 1952: ‘Undesirable’ Migrants and the ‘Corsica’ Cypriots” as part of the Odyssey Festival. The talk is based on my forthcoming book with Brill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mloT...

Professor Andrekos Varnava's talk titled "Cypriot Migration to Australia until 1952".

YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social · Oct 5

Check out Tanja Bueltmann's review of our recent volume on Forced Migration with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1080/0261...

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Forced migration: exiles and refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Oct 2

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

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The Anti-Reparations Bible

Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Oct 1

I've started developing this essay into an article on Zionism and Enotism... Already getting interesting. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?

70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...

www.tandfonline.com

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Sep 17

Hopefully another one covering 1960-1980 coming soon

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Sep 17

@evansmithhist.bsky.social

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Sep 15

my version of Lilywhite by Yusuf Cat Stevens www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjFF...

Cover of 'Lilywhite', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from Mona Bone Jakon (1970)

YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Sep 12

Read our new article!

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Sep 12

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'

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Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s by Evan Smith & Andrekos Varnava

Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s, changes in the international situation, such as decolonization in Asia, led some Australians to question the usefulness of keeping the ‘White Australia Policy’, the basis for the country’s immigration system since Federation in 1901. Some argued that Australia’s international reputation, especially with newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, could be harmed by the maintenance of this policy. Events such as the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960 caused further introspection into Australia’s racialized system. However, as pushes to reform the policy grew, others used international events to resist reforms. Using speeches by politicians and documents produced by policymakers, this article will show how events, such as the Notting Hill riots in Britain, the Little Rock controversy in the United States, and the Sharpeville massacre, were used as warnings about Australia potentially introducing similar ‘racial problems’ if it allowed more non-white migration. This article argues that these concerns tapped into a transnational whiteness that shared anxieties about decolonization, civil rights and non-white immigration in the post-war period, bringing a racialized solidarity forged at the turn of the twentieth century into the Cold War era.

Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Sep 12

Great to have worked with you again!

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