Beth Rebisz
@brebisz.bsky.social
Lecturer at UoBristol teaching African history. Research specialisms: Kenyan hist, gender, humanitarianism & COIN. She/Her. Proud collaborator: @museumofbc
I would really recommend a visit Mark! I think I'll need to go back to fully digest it all.
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I would really recommend a visit Mark! I think I'll need to go back to fully digest it all.
Please do go and check it out. More details here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
I think I might need to get a University of Bristol History field trip together!
I think I might need to get a University of Bristol History field trip together!
Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus
At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Please do go and check it out. More details here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
I think I might need to get a University of Bristol History field trip together!
I think I might need to get a University of Bristol History field trip together!
Yet a redress of emergency narratives, dispelling the myths about Empire that are still deployed in divisive national discourse, has been a long time coming. That's what this exhibition seeks to achieve and it's important that it stands today in the Imperial War Museum, in our capital.
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yet a redress of emergency narratives, dispelling the myths about Empire that are still deployed in divisive national discourse, has been a long time coming. That's what this exhibition seeks to achieve and it's important that it stands today in the Imperial War Museum, in our capital.
This is a pretty historic moment for the IWM and British museums more broadly. We at the @museumofbc.bsky.social have of course hosted temporary/travelling exhibitions around the UK on the emergency in Kenya, but we've never owned a space, that isn't our aim.
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is a pretty historic moment for the IWM and British museums more broadly. We at the @museumofbc.bsky.social have of course hosted temporary/travelling exhibitions around the UK on the emergency in Kenya, but we've never owned a space, that isn't our aim.
The curation, the design, and the care with which the stories of those who lived through this violent period were handled has been very impressive to see. Congratulations to all those involved!
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The curation, the design, and the care with which the stories of those who lived through this violent period were handled has been very impressive to see. Congratulations to all those involved!
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2/2 He seems to think Britain colonised countries with the intention of ‘developing’ them. Development policies were a late colonial response to anticolonial nationalists’ critiques of exploitation & had to be self-financed by colonised populations until after WWII.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
2/2 He seems to think Britain colonised countries with the intention of ‘developing’ them. Development policies were a late colonial response to anticolonial nationalists’ critiques of exploitation & had to be self-financed by colonised populations until after WWII.
Thank you Tom! Incredibly kind of you to say and very high praise.
June 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thank you Tom! Incredibly kind of you to say and very high praise.
What I truly hope comes from this is a new framework for innovative solutions which counteract the European destruction of African knowledge, culture, and memory. I am unbelievably proud to have learned in partnership with my research participants and the @museumofbc.bsky.social community!
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
What I truly hope comes from this is a new framework for innovative solutions which counteract the European destruction of African knowledge, culture, and memory. I am unbelievably proud to have learned in partnership with my research participants and the @museumofbc.bsky.social community!
The article plots the journey of my research thus far: the initial research conducted on villagisation in Kenya during the 1950s, the ways I have disseminated that through digital practices with @museumofbc.bsky.social, but importantly, the returning of this research to the respective community.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The article plots the journey of my research thus far: the initial research conducted on villagisation in Kenya during the 1950s, the ways I have disseminated that through digital practices with @museumofbc.bsky.social, but importantly, the returning of this research to the respective community.
The article explores 'the need for adaptive and digital heritage practices grounded in co-creation and personal exchange to hold space for the individual experiences of those who lived through it'. Consultation on our research is VITAL, both for rigour and transparency.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The article explores 'the need for adaptive and digital heritage practices grounded in co-creation and personal exchange to hold space for the individual experiences of those who lived through it'. Consultation on our research is VITAL, both for rigour and transparency.
Really delighted to see this out in the world, it was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the transformative event me and the @museumofbc.bsky.social held in Nyeri in 2023.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Really delighted to see this out in the world, it was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the transformative event me and the @museumofbc.bsky.social held in Nyeri in 2023.