Saima Nasar
@saimanasar.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. No access to DMs.
PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
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Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.
The worst of times: Trouble at the British Library
Cyber chaos, striking staff and a crisis of leadership. Claudia Cockerell investigates a national treasure’s year of reckoning
www.standard.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.
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Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue!
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue!
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
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By donating to our GoFundMe, you are not only helping us fund our projects, but you are also us fund the development of the young Black British people who choose to volunteer their time into helping these projects come to fruition.
Thank you!
#EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
gofund.me/2d21c2b9a
Thank you!
#EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
gofund.me/2d21c2b9a
Donate to The Young Historians Project, organized by Young Historians Project
The Young Historians Project (YHP) is a UK–based collective which promotes the s… Young Historians Project needs your support for The Young Historians Project
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December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
By donating to our GoFundMe, you are not only helping us fund our projects, but you are also us fund the development of the young Black British people who choose to volunteer their time into helping these projects come to fruition.
Thank you!
#EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
gofund.me/2d21c2b9a
Thank you!
#EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
gofund.me/2d21c2b9a
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Hi everyone! As some of you may know, our organisation, YHP, is focused on the promotion of the scholarship of Black British History.
We have some amazing projects which we can't wait to share with you next year. But the research, editing etc. for these projects are done on a volunteer basis.
We have some amazing projects which we can't wait to share with you next year. But the research, editing etc. for these projects are done on a volunteer basis.
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hi everyone! As some of you may know, our organisation, YHP, is focused on the promotion of the scholarship of Black British History.
We have some amazing projects which we can't wait to share with you next year. But the research, editing etc. for these projects are done on a volunteer basis.
We have some amazing projects which we can't wait to share with you next year. But the research, editing etc. for these projects are done on a volunteer basis.
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It’s International Migrants Day, and let’s never stop fighting for a world where anyone can move if they want to, and no-one is forced to move if they don’t want to
International Migrants Day | United Nations
International Migrants Day aims to raise awareness about the challenges and difficulties of international migration. The United Nations is actively playing a catalyst role in this area, with the aim o...
www.un.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It’s International Migrants Day, and let’s never stop fighting for a world where anyone can move if they want to, and no-one is forced to move if they don’t want to
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Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.
Radical Reads 2025
History Workshop editors share their reflections on the radical books and films which have compelled them, fascinated them, and moved them throughout 2025.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.
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Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past on JSTOR
This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain's involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the te...
www.jstor.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
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Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
The University of Manchester has been celebrating 200 years of achievement in research-driven learning, development and innovation: this has included investing in our prestigious Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships. The scheme represents a major University investment of £28 million to recruit and fund more than 200 early-career researchers between 2025/26 and 2026/27.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...
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'Women work longer and earn just a third – 32% – of what men get per hour, when paid and unpaid labour, such as domestic work, are taken into account. Even when unpaid domestic labour is not included, women only earn 61% of what men make, according to the report.' 1/2
‘The patriarchy runs deep’: women still getting a raw deal in the workplace as equality remains a dream
Women work longer and per hour earn a third of what men are paid, in figures that have changed little in 35 years, UN report shows
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
'Women work longer and earn just a third – 32% – of what men get per hour, when paid and unpaid labour, such as domestic work, are taken into account. Even when unpaid domestic labour is not included, women only earn 61% of what men make, according to the report.' 1/2
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I cannot believe we elected a human rights lawyer and got this!
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I cannot believe we elected a human rights lawyer and got this!
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🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
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Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Stella Dadzie's incredible 'Freedom Fighters' digital trail for the National Maritime Museum is now available: app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/...
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As a regular reader, I am out on the picket line again today, supporting staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who are JUST asking for decent pay
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
As a regular reader, I am out on the picket line again today, supporting staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who are JUST asking for decent pay
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'tis the book-flogging season, so would be remiss of me not to highlight 40 percent off my books with @umasspress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY) and @illinoispress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY40) - plenty of other great books also available!
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
'tis the book-flogging season, so would be remiss of me not to highlight 40 percent off my books with @umasspress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY) and @illinoispress.bsky.social (code HOLIDAY40) - plenty of other great books also available!
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Thrilled to see this generous review by Benjamin Mountford on my book Multiracial Britishness, on my first day back at work after a long sick leave!
Benjamin Mountford reviews 'Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45', by Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social
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Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45, by Vivian Kong
‘What does being British mean?’ This question, Vivian Kong argues in her engaging new book, has been largely missing from our considerations of nineteenth
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December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thrilled to see this generous review by Benjamin Mountford on my book Multiracial Britishness, on my first day back at work after a long sick leave!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage
‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage
Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilience
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage
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Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
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Truly obscene. "Membership of the 110-year-old organisation will be restricted to those who are registered female at birth, with new members or those renewing expected to confirm that they meet the criteria."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Truly obscene. "Membership of the 110-year-old organisation will be restricted to those who are registered female at birth, with new members or those renewing expected to confirm that they meet the criteria."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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To mark Disability History Month, explore how women’s experiences have shaped disability history and why they must be counted.
Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network:
womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women...
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility
Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network:
womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women...
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
To mark Disability History Month, explore how women’s experiences have shaped disability history and why they must be counted.
Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network:
womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women...
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility
Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network:
womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women...
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility