Waseem Ahmed
@waseemahmed98.bsky.social
UCLHistory PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA KCL, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions
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Absolutely loved picture editing for this book produced by History West Midlands for the National Civil War Centre, Newark edited by Professor Andrew Hopper, Oxford Lifelong Learning. Great to see it in print!
see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk for lots of podcasts with many of the contributors!
see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk for lots of podcasts with many of the contributors!
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Absolutely loved picture editing for this book produced by History West Midlands for the National Civil War Centre, Newark edited by Professor Andrew Hopper, Oxford Lifelong Learning. Great to see it in print!
see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk for lots of podcasts with many of the contributors!
see www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk for lots of podcasts with many of the contributors!
I feature in this episode of The Civil Wars on print wars!
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I feature in this episode of The Civil Wars on print wars!
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www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/product/the-... published today, a fantastic teaching resource and a super Xmas present. With contributions from @annlaurahughes.bsky.social @isminipells.bsky.social @waseemahmed98.bsky.social @denisegreany.bsky.social Richard Cust, Andy Hopper (Ed.) Oh, and me.
The civil wars in 100 objects - The World Turned Upside Down
The civil wars that took place between 1638 and 1651, and their aftermath, were the most destabilising conflicts that the British and Irish peoples have ever endured. During these times everyday peop...
www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/product/the-... published today, a fantastic teaching resource and a super Xmas present. With contributions from @annlaurahughes.bsky.social @isminipells.bsky.social @waseemahmed98.bsky.social @denisegreany.bsky.social Richard Cust, Andy Hopper (Ed.) Oh, and me.
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Hope you don’t mind me sharing this again. I’m just so excited to share this brand new podcast series produced by @histfest.bsky.social for @historyextra.bsky.social
Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )
Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )
Once Upon a Time in the North
spotify.link
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hope you don’t mind me sharing this again. I’m just so excited to share this brand new podcast series produced by @histfest.bsky.social for @historyextra.bsky.social
Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )
Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )
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#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
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Don't forget that we are recruiting for our new committee! If you have any questions, please email us as we are happy to answer.
Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!
Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!
📢 CALL FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS! 📢
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-2026 Committee. History Lab is the national body, hosted at the @ihr.bsky.social, which represents over 1,500 graduate students of history across the UK.
Keep on reading for the available roles and deadline!
July 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Don't forget that we are recruiting for our new committee! If you have any questions, please email us as we are happy to answer.
Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!
Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!
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'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
I wonder if there has been many studies in English of the French lefts success in reclaiming their national heritage?
labourlist.org/2020/09/how-...
labourlist.org/2020/09/how-...
How the British left could learn from the patriotism of French socialists - LabourList
Patriotism has always been a difficult subject for the British left. Too often, it is seen as a…
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July 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I wonder if there has been many studies in English of the French lefts success in reclaiming their national heritage?
labourlist.org/2020/09/how-...
labourlist.org/2020/09/how-...
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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.
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...
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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We supported Bowen Ran
with a PhD research bursary. Here he reports back on E.P. Thompson’s cat and the making of The Making of the English Working Class.
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/22/b...
with a PhD research bursary. Here he reports back on E.P. Thompson’s cat and the making of The Making of the English Working Class.
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/22/b...
Bowen Ran (Rotterdam) on E. P. Thompson and the formation of The Making of the English Working Class
It is one thing to read E. P. Thompson’s published, polished texts; it is quite another to handle the papers he once worked on, to see the rust left by paper clips, the gum pressed between pages, t…
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June 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We supported Bowen Ran
with a PhD research bursary. Here he reports back on E.P. Thompson’s cat and the making of The Making of the English Working Class.
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/22/b...
with a PhD research bursary. Here he reports back on E.P. Thompson’s cat and the making of The Making of the English Working Class.
sslh.org.uk/2025/06/22/b...
I got nominated for a teaching award for this year as seminar tutor for Early Modern Worlds at Kings! Not to pipe my own trumpet but that’s 2 in 3 years!
April 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I got nominated for a teaching award for this year as seminar tutor for Early Modern Worlds at Kings! Not to pipe my own trumpet but that’s 2 in 3 years!
Very much enjoyed speaking and attending the Tony Benn Legacy conference this weekend!
April 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very much enjoyed speaking and attending the Tony Benn Legacy conference this weekend!
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📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49
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April 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Interested in the relationship between anti-popery in the 1624 parliament and "real" Catholic activity? Check out my new article in the English Historical Review, now available with advance access!
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
An Unsettled Religious Settlement and the Crisis of the 1620s: English Catholics, Anti-Popery, and the Spanish Match, 1622–4*
Abstract. The anti-popish fervour that accompanied the collapse of the Spanish Match has been long acknowledged both by the wave of revisionists who dismis
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April 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Interested in the relationship between anti-popery in the 1624 parliament and "real" Catholic activity? Check out my new article in the English Historical Review, now available with advance access!
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
Well isn’t the Bender reading room in the Green Library (Stanford University) magnificent….one of the nicest reading rooms I’ve worked with fantastic views, even if the eye of Sauron (Hoover Institute) sits next door
April 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Well isn’t the Bender reading room in the Green Library (Stanford University) magnificent….one of the nicest reading rooms I’ve worked with fantastic views, even if the eye of Sauron (Hoover Institute) sits next door
Teaching my last classes this academic year for my module at KCL on Early Modern Worlds and one of the students shared this with me😭
March 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Teaching my last classes this academic year for my module at KCL on Early Modern Worlds and one of the students shared this with me😭
Excited to be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Tudor-Stuart seminar on Monday 24th March alongside Christine Gerwin (TU-Dresden).
www.history.ac.uk/events/tudor...
www.history.ac.uk/events/tudor...
Tudor and Stuart History - Joint Session
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March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited to be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Tudor-Stuart seminar on Monday 24th March alongside Christine Gerwin (TU-Dresden).
www.history.ac.uk/events/tudor...
www.history.ac.uk/events/tudor...
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Is one of your new year's resolutions to get an article published? If so, we want to hear from you! We welcome article submissions on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
Midland History
Midland History publishes on the history of the English Midlands region and historical comparisons with other areas.
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Is one of your new year's resolutions to get an article published? If so, we want to hear from you! We welcome article submissions on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here:
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd...
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The refurbishment of the IHR Common Room has begun. Come back and see the new look in February.
January 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The refurbishment of the IHR Common Room has begun. Come back and see the new look in February.
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I am presenting a paper on the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs at the @ihr.bsky.social on 11 February, 17:30, hosted both online and in person. Do come along!
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-soc...
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-soc...
‘A Socialist Identity in Parliament’? The Campaign Group of Labour MPs, 1982-2015
www.history.ac.uk
January 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I am presenting a paper on the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs at the @ihr.bsky.social on 11 February, 17:30, hosted both online and in person. Do come along!
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-soc...
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-soc...
Finally found a fantastic local place to work at, the newly refurbished Staffordshire History Centre!
December 27, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Finally found a fantastic local place to work at, the newly refurbished Staffordshire History Centre!
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Our latest Special Issue is Haunted Midlands with nearly all content Open Access!
Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)
Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)
Midland History
Haunted Midlands. Volume 49, Issue 3 of Midland History
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December 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Our latest Special Issue is Haunted Midlands with nearly all content Open Access!
Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)
Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)
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Dressing up for a Christmas party this week?
In the latest #HistParl post Dr Paul Hunneyball looks into fashion trends during the early modern period, when Parliament had a say in what you could, and couldn't, wear!
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In the latest #HistParl post Dr Paul Hunneyball looks into fashion trends during the early modern period, when Parliament had a say in what you could, and couldn't, wear!
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When tinsel was only for the rich: dressing to impress in early modern England - The History of Parliament
Wondering what to wear to a Christmas or New Year party? Deciding how to look one’s best can be a dilemma – but at least our fashion choices aren’t dictated
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December 17, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Dressing up for a Christmas party this week?
In the latest #HistParl post Dr Paul Hunneyball looks into fashion trends during the early modern period, when Parliament had a say in what you could, and couldn't, wear!
ow.ly/jnpE50UsrkM
In the latest #HistParl post Dr Paul Hunneyball looks into fashion trends during the early modern period, when Parliament had a say in what you could, and couldn't, wear!
ow.ly/jnpE50UsrkM
Delighted to have been awarded a 4 month fellowship at the Culture of Vigilance Centre at LMU Munchen where I get to continue my PhD research and collaborate with other academics at the Centre. Oh, and I get an office!
December 16, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Delighted to have been awarded a 4 month fellowship at the Culture of Vigilance Centre at LMU Munchen where I get to continue my PhD research and collaborate with other academics at the Centre. Oh, and I get an office!