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Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
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Not quite QM British Studies but @smidbob.bsky.social is a wonderful neighbour & ally. Congratulations!
smidbob.bsky.social Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 6d
My new book arrived in the post from @manchesterup.bsky.social! Pleased to see it for real!

Make cheese not war: Transnational resistance and the Larzac in Modern France

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175878/

🗃 #skystorians
Hardback copy of the book 'Make Cheese Not War'
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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liamliburd.bsky.social
Next week, I'm speaking at The Mix in Bethnal Green as part of an event on the history of the inner workings of the Home Office. I'll be speaking about the letter signed by 38 immigration officers at London Heathrow airport in support of Enoch Powell in the wake of his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
qmcbs.bsky.social QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Jan 15
Together with @rshc.bsky.social QMCBS's Rob Waters is involved in a great event on 24 Feb at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green on the history of the Home Office and border control, featuring @liamliburd.bsky.social, @juanitacox.bsky.social and Bobby Phe Amis
February 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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hannahelias.bsky.social
If you’re planning to be in Sheffield in April, @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org and @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy are hosting the annual History & Archives in Practice conference, registration now open! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...
History and Archives in Practice
History and Archives in Practice is where historians and archivists come together to consider shared interests in archive collections.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
February 11, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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rshc.bsky.social
Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion?
Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton
24/3/26, QMUL, London E1
Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594
@qmul.bsky.social
Book Launch: Charity After Empire
British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development
eventbrite.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
On advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"

by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
doi.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
qmcbs.bsky.social
Next QMCBS Book Launch with @qmulsse.bsky.social : Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire on 24 March 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc.... Panel with Bill Schwarz,
@riakapoor.bsky.social Kavita Datta & David Williams
Book Launch: Charity After Empire
British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Prof Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London
Who was Granville? Questions from the archive of the 1831-32 uprising in Jamaica
5-7 PM | SR24 | English Faculty Building, Cambridge University
Faculty of English
www.english.cam.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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dmk1793.bsky.social
Excellent essay from @colmpm.bsky.social on Labour's current mess, adeptly balancing strucuture and agency

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Labour's problem isn't Keir Starmer | LSE British Politics
Labour's dismal performance in the polls has lead to Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party being openly contested. But Colm Murphy argues that, while Starmer is a flawed politician, many of th...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM
qmcbs.bsky.social
Job opportunity: 18 month fellowship in British Studies working @ihr.bsky.social to undertake own research and prep for NACBS2027 @thenacbs.bsky.social

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM
qmcbs.bsky.social
And another QM @qmulsse.bsky.social book launch - Leslie James' The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought: Thurs 5 March 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: The Moving Word
Leslie James in conversation with Musab Younis about her new book (reception to follow)
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
We're thrilled to be welcoming legendary broadcaster Kate Adie to the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social for our 5th distinguished Hennessy Lecture.

She'll discuss her life as a reporter and explore the challenges & paths ahead for journalism today.

16 Feb 6:30.Book here!
www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/m...
The Hennessy Lecture: Kate Adie CBE
www.qmul.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
Former Past & Present Co-Editor Matthew Hilton's (@qmcbs.bsky.social) new book "Charity After Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development" is out now through @universitypress.cambridge.org CORE and formally published next month

doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Charity After Empire
Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire
doi.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
There are a couple events discussing it scheduled for the spring in London:

The first at QMUL on Tuesday 24 March (5-7pm) with a panel comprising Ria Kapoor; Kavita Datta; David Williams

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: Charity After Empire
British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
I'm really looking forward to reading Matthew Hilton's timely new @universitypress.cambridge.org book Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation, and Development.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Charity After Empire
Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire
www.cambridge.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Published next month in our Modern British Histories series (though available earlier online via Cambridge Core), Matthew Hilton's Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development. Essential reading for our times. #Skystorians
Charity After Empire
Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire
www.cambridge.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:05 AM
qmcbs.bsky.social
31 Jan History Workshop @rshc.bsky.social; @historyworkshop.org.uk
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue: a celebration
Celebration of HWJ's 100th edition
www.bbk.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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renewaljournal.bsky.social
FREE TO READ: Paul Kirby traces the history of Labour's long-standing feminist ambitions in the international sphere, and laments their apparent death amidst swingeing aid cuts
The Strange Death of Feminist Internationalism
07 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Kirby07 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Kirby.pdf105 KBdownload-circle The history of Labour’s international development policy has long been intertwined with its views and aims on gender eq...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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colmpm.bsky.social
I'm delighted that we can share the termcard of the IHR Britain at Home and Abroad since 1800 seminar.

First up, @robertsaunders.bsky.social on 29 January to present on the history of UK democracy (specifically, the neglected Third Reform Act). Sign up in the link below!
ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social · Jan 19
HERE IT IS! We are super excited to share our 2025/26 spring programme! Mark your calendars for some exciting new research in modern British history...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

First up! QMUL's Dr Rob Saunders on DEMOCRACY on 29 January. Online or in person at the IHR. See you there.
Britain at Home and Abroad
This seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.
www.history.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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QM's @robertsaunders.bsky.social will be speaking at the @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social about the Third Reform Act: 29 January, 5.30pm, Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House,

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
"Democracy has come!" The Third Reform Act and the making of British Democracy
www.history.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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colmpm.bsky.social
My latest article is out in British Politics. I try to account for the distressed confusion gripping the UK government's economic strategy. In honour of the article's namesake, I include a tortured football analogy.

It's free to read (open access) here.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is the abstract for the article 'Labour's choices: The political economy of Keir Starmer's party', by Colm Murphy. It reads: 'This article explores the dilemmas at the heart of the economic strategy of Keir Starmer’s government by tracking developments in British (centre-)left political economy since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. It first traces the emergence of a shared narrative of political economy circulating among the UK and transatlantic centre-left, as well as some further left and right, over the 2010s and into the early 2020s. Identifying the core diagnoses and prescriptions contained within this narrative, this article situates them in economic, ideological, and political developments since 2008. It then traces the fragmentation of this economic imaginary from 2022. In combination with an unhappy transition to office, this fragmentation has generated a deeply confused and internally contradictory economic strategy in the UK Labour government. This paper then explains this process by placing ideological and political developments in their material and external contexts. A worsening macroeconomic and geopolitical context actively decomposed the constituent parts of the narrative and challenged some of its assumptions; in turn, this revived submerged disagreements within the governing party. The paper consequently argues that while these tensions can be explained partly by ideological closure, they derive to a significant and probably greater extent from institutional and material factors, especially questions of statecraft and the UK’s misfiring growth regime in an increasingly gloomy global context. The paper ends, however, by cautioning against an overbearing determinism. It indicates the remaining arenas for political agency open to the government, should it prove able and willing to act.'
January 18, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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QM's Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social speaking at Black British History seminar on 22 Jan about Norman Manley's visits to Britain and transnational care www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
“You are not to allow yourselves to be frightened”, Norman Manley’s Visits to Britain and Transnational Care in Post-war Britain
www.history.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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colmpm.bsky.social
Interested in the intersection between policymaking, especially in the UK, and academic research? Come work with us! The @mileendinstitute.bsky.social at @qmulsse.bsky.social is advertising for a new Policy Partnerships Officer. Details and application here:

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Policy Partnerships Officer - QMUL Jobs
ID: 8276. Title: Policy Partnerships Officer. Application Deadline:
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January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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rshc.bsky.social
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal.
To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
qmcbs.bsky.social
Together with @rshc.bsky.social QMCBS's Rob Waters is involved in a great event on 24 Feb at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green on the history of the Home Office and border control, featuring @liamliburd.bsky.social, @juanitacox.bsky.social and Bobby Phe Amis
January 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
qmcbs.bsky.social
whole bunch of publications coming out in 2026 by colleagues at QMCBS
January 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM