Ali Bassam Zahid
@alibassamzahid.bsky.social
Historian of the Greek International Brigades │ University of Leeds.
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In the second of a special series, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.
thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/28/p...
thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/28/p...
PODCAST – Episode 75: The Shadow of the Partition
In the second of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.
thelausanneproject.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In the second of a special series, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.
thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/28/p...
thelausanneproject.com/2025/11/28/p...
Franco ha mort!
A really well written piece by Jim Jump of the @ibmt-scw.bsky.social, on 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stru...
A really well written piece by Jim Jump of the @ibmt-scw.bsky.social, on 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stru...
The struggle against Franco’s legacy continues
“SPANIARDS, Franco has died,” came the announcement 50 years ago on Spanish TV. If there was any truth to the widely held story that Barcelona immediately ran out of cava, the corks would have been po...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Franco ha mort!
A really well written piece by Jim Jump of the @ibmt-scw.bsky.social, on 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stru...
A really well written piece by Jim Jump of the @ibmt-scw.bsky.social, on 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stru...
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This piece by María Ramírez is excellent. As she says,
'forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.' A lesson for us all...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.' A lesson for us all...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past | María Ramírez
This week marks 50 years of Spanish democracy, but the failure to talk more about the crimes of the dictatorship leaves us vulnerable, says the journalist María Ramírez
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This piece by María Ramírez is excellent. As she says,
'forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.' A lesson for us all...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.' A lesson for us all...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Today in Rome 😎
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Today in Rome 😎
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The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today!
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion
In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today!
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
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🆕 Gran notícia @eldiario.es es fa ressò de la concessió de la nacionalitat espanyola als fills i nets de brigadistes internacionals i entrevista a familiars i a @lourdesprades.bsky.social com a historiadora 👍🤩👏 @sidbrint.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/1_c2a04f?utm...
www.eldiario.es/1_c2a04f?utm...
Los hijos y nietos de brigadistas internacionales que reciben la nacionalidad española: “Así se honra su memoria”
Los descendientes de tres de esos combatientes extranjeros, uno de ellos desaparecido en la batalla del Segre, recuperan las vivencias de sus antepasados y explican sus razones para solicitar al Gobie...
www.eldiario.es
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🆕 Gran notícia @eldiario.es es fa ressò de la concessió de la nacionalitat espanyola als fills i nets de brigadistes internacionals i entrevista a familiars i a @lourdesprades.bsky.social com a historiadora 👍🤩👏 @sidbrint.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/1_c2a04f?utm...
www.eldiario.es/1_c2a04f?utm...
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Today's reading recommendation: Padraic Gibson (University of Technology Sydney) has written an outstanding essay on how aboriginal people in Australia have played a crucial role in anti-fascist protest movements, from the 1930s until today. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/11/17/a...
Aboriginal Leadership and Anti-fascist Protest in Australia
Aboriginal people in Australia have played an important role in anti-fascist protest in Australia for more than 80 years. This activism has been informed by a distinct Indigenous political traditio…
helsinkinotebooks.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today's reading recommendation: Padraic Gibson (University of Technology Sydney) has written an outstanding essay on how aboriginal people in Australia have played a crucial role in anti-fascist protest movements, from the 1930s until today. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/11/17/a...
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Diumenge 23 de novembre a les 12h, com cada any, ens concentrarem davant la Prefectura Superior de Policia de Via Laietana, 43, per exigir que l'espai es converteixi immediatament en un centre de memòria exclusiu, sense presència policial. T'hi esperem perquè el clam sigui col·lectiu i massiu ✊
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Diumenge 23 de novembre a les 12h, com cada any, ens concentrarem davant la Prefectura Superior de Policia de Via Laietana, 43, per exigir que l'espai es converteixi immediatament en un centre de memòria exclusiu, sense presència policial. T'hi esperem perquè el clam sigui col·lectiu i massiu ✊
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November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️
The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds.
🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN
#HistSci #Sinology
The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds.
🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN
#HistSci #Sinology
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️
The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds.
🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN
#HistSci #Sinology
The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds.
🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN
#HistSci #Sinology
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It was a pleasure to work with Gordon on such a thought-provoking, timely article.
Big thanks also to my erstwhile HW colleague Vivien @inoutofpractice.bsky.social for arranging another ✨amazing✨ collaboration with one of their illustration students!
Big thanks also to my erstwhile HW colleague Vivien @inoutofpractice.bsky.social for arranging another ✨amazing✨ collaboration with one of their illustration students!
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It was a pleasure to work with Gordon on such a thought-provoking, timely article.
Big thanks also to my erstwhile HW colleague Vivien @inoutofpractice.bsky.social for arranging another ✨amazing✨ collaboration with one of their illustration students!
Big thanks also to my erstwhile HW colleague Vivien @inoutofpractice.bsky.social for arranging another ✨amazing✨ collaboration with one of their illustration students!
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Looking forward to speaking at the Institute of Historical Research Seminar in King's College London next Wednesday evening. I will present research from the @erc.europa.eu COLVET project. Open to all but pre-registration required to attend. Thanks to the organisers www.eventbrite.ie/e/colonial-v...
Colonial Veterans and Citizenship in the French Empire
Presenting research from the project, Ex-Soldiers of Empire; Towards a Comparative History of Colonial Veterancy in the Interwar Period.
www.eventbrite.ie
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Looking forward to speaking at the Institute of Historical Research Seminar in King's College London next Wednesday evening. I will present research from the @erc.europa.eu COLVET project. Open to all but pre-registration required to attend. Thanks to the organisers www.eventbrite.ie/e/colonial-v...
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Isabella Lewis (@leedsims.bsky.social) writes our latest blog post about St Andrew the Fool. Looking at Andrew's hagiography from the 10c., Isabella explores the intersection of sexual violence and race in the Christian East #churchhistory #skystorians
eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...
eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...
Sexual Violence and Race in the Life of Saint Andrew the Fool (10th Century)
Isabella Lewis is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. In October 2024, she began her PhD at the Institute for Medieval Studies specialising in Byzantine Studies which is funded by the AHRC …
eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Isabella Lewis (@leedsims.bsky.social) writes our latest blog post about St Andrew the Fool. Looking at Andrew's hagiography from the 10c., Isabella explores the intersection of sexual violence and race in the Christian East #churchhistory #skystorians
eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...
eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/s...
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🗞️ Molt recomanables els darrers números de @sapiens.org i #PetitSapiens dedicats al 50è aniversari de la mort del dictador #Franco amb articles d'especialistes en la matèria com Andreu Mayayo i Joan Villarroya de @geohistub.bsky.social o el professor de la @uab.cat David Ballester👍No us els perdeu!📰
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🗞️ Molt recomanables els darrers números de @sapiens.org i #PetitSapiens dedicats al 50è aniversari de la mort del dictador #Franco amb articles d'especialistes en la matèria com Andreu Mayayo i Joan Villarroya de @geohistub.bsky.social o el professor de la @uab.cat David Ballester👍No us els perdeu!📰
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The yearbook of the GHI Rome Rome, rather austerely called Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, has published some of my thoughts on how to write European colonial history, moving away from national narratives. Here is some recommended reading for a rainy weekend 😁
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The yearbook of the GHI Rome Rome, rather austerely called Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, has published some of my thoughts on how to write European colonial history, moving away from national narratives. Here is some recommended reading for a rainy weekend 😁
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🌍👩🏫 Com promoure, des de l'educació, el #pensamentcrític vers les causes de desigualtats i conflictes? Com incrementar el compromís amb els #dretshumans?
En parlarem amb Carme Panchón (@educacioub.bsky.social)
📅 Dijous 13 novembre 🕕 18:00
📍 L’H Espai de Debat
www.solidaritat.ub.edu/cicle-cooper...
En parlarem amb Carme Panchón (@educacioub.bsky.social)
📅 Dijous 13 novembre 🕕 18:00
📍 L’H Espai de Debat
www.solidaritat.ub.edu/cicle-cooper...
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🌍👩🏫 Com promoure, des de l'educació, el #pensamentcrític vers les causes de desigualtats i conflictes? Com incrementar el compromís amb els #dretshumans?
En parlarem amb Carme Panchón (@educacioub.bsky.social)
📅 Dijous 13 novembre 🕕 18:00
📍 L’H Espai de Debat
www.solidaritat.ub.edu/cicle-cooper...
En parlarem amb Carme Panchón (@educacioub.bsky.social)
📅 Dijous 13 novembre 🕕 18:00
📍 L’H Espai de Debat
www.solidaritat.ub.edu/cicle-cooper...
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Trafalgar Square, London, 1938. Banner reads "Irish Republicans greet Spanish Republicans. Smash all imperialisms"
I don't know the date or the source.
I don't know the date or the source.
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Trafalgar Square, London, 1938. Banner reads "Irish Republicans greet Spanish Republicans. Smash all imperialisms"
I don't know the date or the source.
I don't know the date or the source.
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Sessió ACIM Sarrià
Manuel Sacristán: el seu pensament en la crisi social política i ecològica actual
Parlaran:
Miguel Candel
Albert Corominas
José Luis Martín Ramos
Víctor Ríos
Joaquim Sempere
🗓️ dijous 13 novembre
⌚18 h
🚩Casa Orlandai, Jaume Piquet 23
Via Zoom: us05web.zoom.us/postattendee...
Manuel Sacristán: el seu pensament en la crisi social política i ecològica actual
Parlaran:
Miguel Candel
Albert Corominas
José Luis Martín Ramos
Víctor Ríos
Joaquim Sempere
🗓️ dijous 13 novembre
⌚18 h
🚩Casa Orlandai, Jaume Piquet 23
Via Zoom: us05web.zoom.us/postattendee...
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Sessió ACIM Sarrià
Manuel Sacristán: el seu pensament en la crisi social política i ecològica actual
Parlaran:
Miguel Candel
Albert Corominas
José Luis Martín Ramos
Víctor Ríos
Joaquim Sempere
🗓️ dijous 13 novembre
⌚18 h
🚩Casa Orlandai, Jaume Piquet 23
Via Zoom: us05web.zoom.us/postattendee...
Manuel Sacristán: el seu pensament en la crisi social política i ecològica actual
Parlaran:
Miguel Candel
Albert Corominas
José Luis Martín Ramos
Víctor Ríos
Joaquim Sempere
🗓️ dijous 13 novembre
⌚18 h
🚩Casa Orlandai, Jaume Piquet 23
Via Zoom: us05web.zoom.us/postattendee...
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RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
«La intelectualidad de masas,
para incidir políticamente y destruir lo que merezca ser destruido, no puede limitarse a 'noes'. Partiendo de sí misma, debe ejemplificar, en positivo, con índole experimental y constructiva, lo que podría hacerse fuera del capitalismo»
«La intelectualidad de masas,
para incidir políticamente y destruir lo que merezca ser destruido, no puede limitarse a 'noes'. Partiendo de sí misma, debe ejemplificar, en positivo, con índole experimental y constructiva, lo que podría hacerse fuera del capitalismo»
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
«La intelectualidad de masas,
para incidir políticamente y destruir lo que merezca ser destruido, no puede limitarse a 'noes'. Partiendo de sí misma, debe ejemplificar, en positivo, con índole experimental y constructiva, lo que podría hacerse fuera del capitalismo»
«La intelectualidad de masas,
para incidir políticamente y destruir lo que merezca ser destruido, no puede limitarse a 'noes'. Partiendo de sí misma, debe ejemplificar, en positivo, con índole experimental y constructiva, lo que podría hacerse fuera del capitalismo»
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@davidandress.bsky.social is the academic expert in the chair this evening talking about the French Revolution, the people, the events and the legacy. Its not too late to join the course.
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
The 1789 French Revolution – not just a revolution in France
www.history.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@davidandress.bsky.social is the academic expert in the chair this evening talking about the French Revolution, the people, the events and the legacy. Its not too late to join the course.
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
www.history.org.uk/historian/ca...
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🌱Setmana de la Sostenibilitat 2025 a la Facultat de @dretub.bsky.social
📆 del 03 al 07 de novembre
📌Diversos espais de la Facultat de Dret
⭐La setmana inclou diverses activitats, com ara tallers, seminaris i visites guiades
📃Accediu al programa a tinyurl.com/2k7z38hc
📆 del 03 al 07 de novembre
📌Diversos espais de la Facultat de Dret
⭐La setmana inclou diverses activitats, com ara tallers, seminaris i visites guiades
📃Accediu al programa a tinyurl.com/2k7z38hc
Setmana de la Sostenibilitat 2025 a la Facultat de Dret
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November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🌱Setmana de la Sostenibilitat 2025 a la Facultat de @dretub.bsky.social
📆 del 03 al 07 de novembre
📌Diversos espais de la Facultat de Dret
⭐La setmana inclou diverses activitats, com ara tallers, seminaris i visites guiades
📃Accediu al programa a tinyurl.com/2k7z38hc
📆 del 03 al 07 de novembre
📌Diversos espais de la Facultat de Dret
⭐La setmana inclou diverses activitats, com ara tallers, seminaris i visites guiades
📃Accediu al programa a tinyurl.com/2k7z38hc
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📢 Des del PSUC Viu donem suport a la mobilització per un #SàharaLliure.
50 anys d’ocupació, 50 anys de resistència del poble sahrauí.
📅 8 de novembre, 11 h
📍 Delegació del Govern d’Espanya (C/ Mallorca, 278, BCN)
✊🏽 El Sàhara no es ven, s’allibera!
50 anys d’ocupació, 50 anys de resistència del poble sahrauí.
📅 8 de novembre, 11 h
📍 Delegació del Govern d’Espanya (C/ Mallorca, 278, BCN)
✊🏽 El Sàhara no es ven, s’allibera!
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📢 Des del PSUC Viu donem suport a la mobilització per un #SàharaLliure.
50 anys d’ocupació, 50 anys de resistència del poble sahrauí.
📅 8 de novembre, 11 h
📍 Delegació del Govern d’Espanya (C/ Mallorca, 278, BCN)
✊🏽 El Sàhara no es ven, s’allibera!
50 anys d’ocupació, 50 anys de resistència del poble sahrauí.
📅 8 de novembre, 11 h
📍 Delegació del Govern d’Espanya (C/ Mallorca, 278, BCN)
✊🏽 El Sàhara no es ven, s’allibera!
Recentment publicat el nou llibre del antic director de l'Avenç.
Una recança infinita - Arcàdia www.arcadia-editorial.com/llibres/una-...
Una recança infinita - Arcàdia www.arcadia-editorial.com/llibres/una-...
Una recança infinita - Arcàdia
En l’últim mig segle, Catalunya ha viscut quatre intents de fer que el reconeixement de la seva identitat nacional i del seu dret a l’autogovern anés acompanyat d’una nova configuració de l’Estat espa...
www.arcadia-editorial.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Recentment publicat el nou llibre del antic director de l'Avenç.
Una recança infinita - Arcàdia www.arcadia-editorial.com/llibres/una-...
Una recança infinita - Arcàdia www.arcadia-editorial.com/llibres/una-...
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Comença el I Congrés Internacional Recerca i Memòria sobre les Brigades Internacionals a la @geohistub.bsky.social #ICIBrigadesInternacionals
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Comença el I Congrés Internacional Recerca i Memòria sobre les Brigades Internacionals a la @geohistub.bsky.social #ICIBrigadesInternacionals
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I'm excited to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social has published an expanded version of the special issue, 'The Cold War of Labour Migrants'. In it, my article, 'From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism' explores the global intellectual history of migrant activists in 1970s France.
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm excited to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social has published an expanded version of the special issue, 'The Cold War of Labour Migrants'. In it, my article, 'From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism' explores the global intellectual history of migrant activists in 1970s France.