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Raphael Samuel History Centre
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Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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31 Jan History Workshop @rshc.bsky.social; @historyworkshop.org.uk
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History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue: a celebration
Celebration of HWJ's 100th edition
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January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Join the Raphael Samuel History Centre mailing list to get the latest information on our forthcoming events.
Go to our website and click 'contact us'
Our events are free and open to all.
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Raphael Samuel History Centre - Birkbeck, University of London
The Raphael Samuel History Centre is an outreach and research centre supported by a two-way partnership between Birkbeck and Queen Mary.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Call for Papers: Power, People, Papers: Policing the Mobility of 'Undesirables' (1870-1923)
9/6/26 Université Paris Cité.
Conference on the emergence and operation of modern state borders.
Submissions welcome in English and French.
Proposals by 9 Feb 2026 to policingmobility@gmail.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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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
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Our first speaker for the series will be Hiba Alkhalaf (Voices of Heritage/Aswat Alturath). She'll be speaking about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years on". Link to book below.

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From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years On (CISA seminar series)
First in the Archaeological Collaboration after Conflict Spring 2026 seminar series
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November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series will start next term at Birkbeck.

The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Join us 18 Nov 2025 at 5:30pm for the History of Sexuality seminar with Isabel Davis (Natural History Museum) speaking on:

Conceiving Histories: Writing and Illustrating a Negative History

This is an ONLINE only seminar. All welcome, but please register at:

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November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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‘Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam’
Come along to the launch of Professor Faisal Devji's book, where he discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor.
1st December, London E1. WaningCrescent.eventbrite.co.uk
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:

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Launch of 'Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam'
Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor
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November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

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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
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October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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And don't miss the Rethinking Internationalism online workshop on 5-6 Nov on 'Blindspots and Buzzwords in Internationalism', with a fantastic lineup of speakers. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism
This online workshop will focus on absences from recent discussions on internationalism and is the 3rd 'Rethinking Internationalism' event.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Also worth flagging up @riakapoor.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar on 'Refugee internationalisms? The Ugandan Asian Case' on 27 Nov (12-1pm)
October 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link)

Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...
CSI Autumn 2025 Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
Lunchtime seminar by Dr Emma Kluge (Exeter) on “Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific” What: The Pacific Ocean covers more than 30% of the world’s surface. Howe...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Join us for 'Sanctuary, Now and Then: asylum, migrant rights and anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s.'
Speakers include Stuart Crosthwaite, Amy Grant, Rachel Humphris, Paul Weller
7 Nov 12.00pm, Manchester Central Library
Book here sanctuarynowandthen.eventbrite.co.uk
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October 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Join us for this event with Edgar Taylor on the Ugandan Archives:

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Archival Ambivalence: Labour and Status in Ugandan Archives
A study of labour and status in the history of the Uganda National Archives
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October 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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We’re excited to be part of Sanctuary, Now and Then ✨
asylum, migrant rights & anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s
📅 7 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12–3pm
📍 Manchester Central Library
Speakers include Stuart Crosthwaite, Amy Grant, Rachel Humphris & Paul Weller.
🎟️ Free – register here: shorturl.at/FZ6Nd
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Join us to hear a core participant in the #spycops Inquiry speak about his work.
Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982: Subversives Under the Lens
6.00pm, 15 October, London WC1E 7JL
Book here UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk
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Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982: Subversives Under the Lens
Chris Brian (Undercover Research Group) will talk about his chapter in the new book
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October 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records...

We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile
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How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
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September 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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So lovely to have a record of these exciting talks! Thanks again for hosting the conversation @rshc.bsky.social, and for such wonderful contributions, @kabcommons.bsky.social, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust, @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social and @worsted.bsky.social! #SkyStorians #YayArchives!
historyworkshop.org.uk History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Sep 30
How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Such a privilege to be part of this amazing roundtable, organised by @onslies.bsky.social at @rshc.bsky.social. So pleased that the conversation can be shared more widely (less pleased about my wobbly voice)
historyworkshop.org.uk History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Sep 30
How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

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This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM