Marking the Stuart Hall Foundation’s 10th anniversary, we are delighted to announce our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground.

This year, join us to collectively consider the role of difference in broadening the intellectual and creative scope of social justice movements working today.

Here is the latest call for papers for a special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal, dedicated to communist festivals in the West. Please share widely!

As the temperatures plummet, we'd like to remind you that you don’t need to have a reason to come to GWL to spend time & keep warm – just come in, make yourself comfortable & let staff know if you need any help. We may not be able to meet all your needs but here’s what we can offer:

Sundari Anitha looks back at the #Grunwick strike and the role of South Asian women in challenging labour exploitation.

🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free open-access educational resources, including video lectures, detailed lesson plans and reading lists.

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📢The second book in our 2025 list is A Lens on Liberation: Photography as Resistance by Mark Sealy, director of AutographABP. In this new collection, Sealy argues that Western photography and its institutions are in crisis, having been forced to reckon with the medium's colonial history.

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

New open access article by Twentieth Century Communism's former managing editor, Dianne Kirby, for the new Journal of Social Encounters, titled 'The Revolution is Not Over: Sudanese Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Belfast'.

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🚨Book announcement! 🚨We'll be announcing our 2025 books list over the next week, starting with this well-crafted, deft and insightful history, June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive by Onyeka Igwe, on the extraordinary career of curator, film programmer and archivist June Givanni.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

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Great to be part of this fab SI of New Formations on 'Affect and Ideology'!

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Happy publication day to Land Body Ecologies! 'Stories of Solastalgia', written by over 50 collaborators within LBE's network embedded in Indigenous communities across the world, explores the connections between health, land, ecosystems, rights and culture in the context of environmental change.

One month on from the publication of Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, it's great to see all the places the book has travelled to. Get 20% off now when you order through our website using code AF2024, only until 28 November, or support indie bookshops by buying instore.

The University of Leeds in the UK is offering scholarships for Palestinians from Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduat...

Great to read these generous and thoughtful repsonses by Kathi Weeks, @francescasobande.bsky.social, Janet Newman, Alison Hearn and Kate Soper to 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal + the Political' in Feminist Theory - #OpenAccess here:

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For your comrades at Christmas, a print subscription to Twentieth Century Communism journal makes a great gift. A book length issue is published twice a year and looks fab on every discerning reader's bookshelf. Full of the latest research in communist history!

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Hello bsky followers. Enjoy 20% off *all* LW titles in our holiday season sale! ❄️Use code AF2024 at checkout, valid until midnight on 28 November.
Some gift recommendations across our list🎁
A People's History of England, Poems from Spain, A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook
The Radical Black Women Series