Shirin Hirsch
@shirinhirsch.bsky.social
Anti racist historian. Views my own
Any recommendations for a general and good introduction to the origins and early history of Apartheid in South Africa?
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Any recommendations for a general and good introduction to the origins and early history of Apartheid in South Africa?
Reading the work of George Padmore for the first time. What searing, powerful and relentless writing exposing the horrors of colonialism and still so relevant today.
January 29, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Reading the work of George Padmore for the first time. What searing, powerful and relentless writing exposing the horrors of colonialism and still so relevant today.
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Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Fam shared photo of German Jewish great aunt Lotte (Lucie) Guttmann. Ancestry dig we find her son Wilhelm Simon Guttmann revolutionary, friend of Walter Benjamin,early visitor to Soviet Russia,pioneer of photojournalism. Escaping Germany,he settled in UK worked on Picture Post before founding Report
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Fam shared photo of German Jewish great aunt Lotte (Lucie) Guttmann. Ancestry dig we find her son Wilhelm Simon Guttmann revolutionary, friend of Walter Benjamin,early visitor to Soviet Russia,pioneer of photojournalism. Escaping Germany,he settled in UK worked on Picture Post before founding Report
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We send our support to Alex Pretti's family and loved ones, and the global nursing community which has lost a devoted member. No matter where they are in the world, they - and the people they serve - deserve to be safe, both at work and in their communities.
January 27, 2026 at 11:25 AM
We send our support to Alex Pretti's family and loved ones, and the global nursing community which has lost a devoted member. No matter where they are in the world, they - and the people they serve - deserve to be safe, both at work and in their communities.
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400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
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let's check in on that 'ceasefire'
Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM
let's check in on that 'ceasefire'
No colour bar dance, 1955 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HNl...
Lambeth - "No Colour Bar" Dance (1955)
YouTube video by British Pathé
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January 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM
No colour bar dance, 1955 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HNl...
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CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
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#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Deadline: 6 February 2026
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CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
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October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
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Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
I was reading about Elspeth King in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things - she features in the introduction. What a wonderful life www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I was reading about Elspeth King in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things - she features in the introduction. What a wonderful life www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Sunday afternoon watching Up - what a great film 🎈 ❤️
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sunday afternoon watching Up - what a great film 🎈 ❤️
I’m in this piece talking about the Manchester links with the fifth Pan African Congress…
‘A sense of freedom’: 80 years on from the Pan-African Congress in Manchester
‘A sense of freedom’: 80 years on from the Pan-African Congress in Manchester
The legacy of this pivotal event in Black history continues to echo across countries and generations with its call for unity
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I’m in this piece talking about the Manchester links with the fifth Pan African Congress…
Last few tickets for this, next Friday!
This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...
What Peace? Whose Freedom? with Gary Younge - People's History Museum
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October 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Last few tickets for this, next Friday!
‘Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell?’ 😝 🥰
In 1968, against the backdrop of the Race Relations Act and Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, local Birmingham groups campaigned against racism and in support of civil rights
The archives of activist Margaret Stanton capture some of the grassroots activities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSP/...
The archives of activist Margaret Stanton capture some of the grassroots activities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSP/...
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
‘Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell?’ 😝 🥰
This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...
What Peace? Whose Freedom? with Gary Younge - People's History Museum
phm.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...
A brilliant first published journal article by Mohammed Khan, on an Indian Seamen’s Home in 1940s Liverpool - well worth a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A brilliant first published journal article by Mohammed Khan, on an Indian Seamen’s Home in 1940s Liverpool - well worth a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
On the Tommy Robinson march… On the tram today and a man flicking through his Fb turns to his partner says ‘look Steve was on the march for common sense’, the tram passenger clicks ‘like’ and scrolls on. Huge potential for fascists to broaden and deepen their base further after yesterday
September 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On the Tommy Robinson march… On the tram today and a man flicking through his Fb turns to his partner says ‘look Steve was on the march for common sense’, the tram passenger clicks ‘like’ and scrolls on. Huge potential for fascists to broaden and deepen their base further after yesterday
Ten to one on Burnham as next Labour leader, pretty good odds right now...
September 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ten to one on Burnham as next Labour leader, pretty good odds right now...
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We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!
Visit southasianbritain.org
@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Visit southasianbritain.org
@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!
Visit southasianbritain.org
@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Visit southasianbritain.org
@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
This is a brilliant history from below by @grsbrown.bsky.social. The ANL had a defining impact on the contours of racism and anti-racism and was that rare thing, a success, defeating the National Front. Now more than ever we need to return to this history bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/a-pe...
July 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is a brilliant history from below by @grsbrown.bsky.social. The ANL had a defining impact on the contours of racism and anti-racism and was that rare thing, a success, defeating the National Front. Now more than ever we need to return to this history bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/a-pe...
Important letter by Dr Joanna Gilmore and Prof Mead explaining what the restrictions on juries will mean www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...
Restrictions on jury trials will put real justice at risk | Letters
Letters: Dr Joanna Gilmore and Prof David Mead on Sir Brian Leveson’s proposals to help deal with a backlog in the criminal courts. Plus letters from former crown court judge Owen Davies KC and a sitt...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Important letter by Dr Joanna Gilmore and Prof Mead explaining what the restrictions on juries will mean www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...
Thinking of Neil Davidson today and his untimely death. He was the best kind of academic, someone who hated the academy as an institution, who was so generous with his vast knowledge, who spent his time encouraging others to read and think. A working class intellectual and revolutionary.
July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thinking of Neil Davidson today and his untimely death. He was the best kind of academic, someone who hated the academy as an institution, who was so generous with his vast knowledge, who spent his time encouraging others to read and think. A working class intellectual and revolutionary.
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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
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Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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