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Rob Skinner
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Historian: food, activism, transnational solidarity
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Dr Alice Kinghorn recently defended their PhD at Bristol on the role of Anglican missionary societies in transatlantic enslavement.

Congratulations Alice 🎉

🔗 historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/868
December 18, 2023 at 1:29 PM
This is the embodiment of Bluesky
Do not fucking come in here to tell me it's on the label and it's obvious and why don't you understand the utterly arcane and confusing labeling system on led bulbs and you I should get programmable ones or whatever the fuck, I do not care, buying lightbulbs has turned into a nightmare.
Loath the harsh operating room glare of whatever the standard led bulb is so I got the 'warm light' one and it's so dim that I feel like I'm in a shady tavern in a fantasy novel, if you're going to force me to use led bulbs, which I fucking hate, you could at least have human-understandable labeling
December 15, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Peace News is an excellent source for historians of anti-colonial movements in the 50s/60s - the interconnected sentiments of pacifism and anti-racism captured in images such as this …
November 16, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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Excited to share it over here as well that the cover is in, the page is live, and the preorder button works! The China Firm is coming out as part of the "Tucker and Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations" Series with Columbia University Press, February 2024!
The China Firm | Columbia University Press
What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard &amp... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
November 16, 2023 at 9:25 AM
Have been looking back at some of the material that didn’t get into the book. This Peace News piece from 1959 is proof that nothing changes …
November 15, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Out Now!
November 14, 2023 at 9:39 PM