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Historian of the near-present ✍️

Co-editor, In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2025)

Co-convenor, IHR Contemporary British History seminar (@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social)

#cpfc 🔵🔴
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redpeppermag.bsky.social
What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email editors@redpepper.org.uk with your story.
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
Everyone’s doing end of year round ups, so here’s mine:

Published two edited volumes this year. One with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social and @yiannicart.bsky.social. The other with @d-j-frost.bsky.social.

Both available now!

brill.com/display/titl...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
December 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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evehayes123.bsky.social
Bursaries are available for our new short courses @ihr.bsky.social - have a browse over this festive season! We deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages & historical interests. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
December 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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alfiesteer.bsky.social
And so honoured to be published alongside @racheljcollett.bsky.social's fabulous chapter on the Merseyside Women's Liberation Movement, @owenjdowling.bsky.social's on the Chile solidarity campaign, and much much more !
December 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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alfiesteer.bsky.social
Delighted to finally have my hands on a copy of @evansmithhist.bsky.social and @d-j-frost.bsky.social new volume on the British Far Left from 1956!

It has a chapter by me on Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party, which may appeal to anyone looking for historical parallels to the Your Party saga…
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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radonlinearchives.bsky.social
New collections added!

• Amílcar Cabral archive
• KKE Posters
• The Abolitionist Magazine archive
• Russian and Eastern European Posters collection
• Timorese Resistance Archive
• Timor International Solidarity Archive
• Princeton Industrial Relations collection

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
Getting a university publisher to share an Instagram post with Enter Shikari playing over it is surely one of the highlights of my career

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Enter Shikari - Solidarity (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Enter Shikari
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December 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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racheljcollett.bsky.social
Exciting delivery at the Sydney Jones library today! ✨ So nice to see my chapter on socialist-feminist activism in 1980s Merseyside finally in print (almost 2 years after writing!) in @d-j-frost.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social wonderful volume.
December 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
Look what arrived today!

Ask your library to order a copy: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

@evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
A hand holding a copy of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion in front of a Christmas tree
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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katrinanavickas.bsky.social
I've published my Pavia University digital mapping lecture slides and workshop notes on my website:
historyofpublicspace.uk/political-me...
Digital mapping and commemoration – contested commons
historyofpublicspace.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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parkesland.bsky.social
Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education.

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...

(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
Just a reminder that our book came out a few weeks ago and you should tell your library to buy it!
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Nov 18
The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today!

You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion
In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
Was busy attending a great @swwdtp.bsky.social Winter Gathering in Bristol as an alumni, so have been slow to announce, but really pleased that I've been elected as a Fellow of the @royalhistsoc.org! Especially grateful to @caitbeaumont.bsky.social for the encouragement to apply 😄
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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kasperbrasken.bsky.social
Hello new followers! Be sure to follow "The Helsinki Notebooks: Global Dispatches against Fascism and the Far Right" @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social, edited by Dr. Shane Little @shanealittle.bsky.social, Dr. Moshumee Dewoo and myself. We offer a global perspective on antifascist history and politics.
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
Impressed by Uche – glad that Nketiah scored but don't think he can lead the line like Mateta does, Uche caused problems and got in the right positions #cpfc
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
RIP to Asad Haider— a great excerpt I came across earlier today from another individual below
Emancipatory politics, in my view, begins with a decision. Not some kind of decision about who your friends and enemies are, but a decision about people's capacity. Are people equal, and are people capable of governing themselves? These are not questions subject to proof. But once we've made a decision about emancipatory politics, we have to see that as antagonism in the whole history of political thought. Marx was not the first to say that everyone should rule; he was a careful student of the history of politics, and even if he came more and more to restrict his scientific analysis to the specificity of the capitalist mode of production, he understood that the question of emancipation appears across time and across worlds. If you can't take that position, if you're unwilling to make a decision on emancipation and instead resort to the laws of historical necessity and their liberal supplement, then you've ended up far away from Marx himself, no matter how fervently you might claim to be a Marxist.
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
Join Armand Azra bin Azlira, Eveline Lubbers, Hazel Perry and myself at 5.30pm (GMT) online, as we speak to the IHR Contemporary British History seminar (@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social) about our chapters in 'In solidarity, under suspicion' (@manchesterup.bsky.social)

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Roundtable with editors and authors of In solidarity, under suspicion The British far left from 1956
(Manchester University Press, 2025
www.history.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Still time to register for the final seminar of the term. Online at 5.30pm UK time tomorrow (Wed 3rd Dec). @d-j-frost.bsky.social will be joined by contributors to his & @evansmithhist.bsky.social's new edited collection about the British far left since 1956.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Roundtable with editors and authors of In solidarity, under suspicion The British far left from 1956
(Manchester University Press, 2025
www.history.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
Find out more and register for this FREE event via the Events page on our website🎟️
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
This Wednesday!

Join @d-j-frost.bsky.social for an online Roundtable Talk with @ihr.bsky.social 🖥️

Daniel will be discussing his new book In solidarity, under suspicion, a new history of the British far Left from BLM to solidarity with Palestine, co-authored with @evansmithhist.bsky.social.
Promotional image for Daniel Frost's online roundtable talk. Blue background, a photograph of Daniel sits next to an image of the cover of his book. Pink and white text gives details of the date and time of the event - Wednesday 3rd December, Online via Zoom, 5:30-7pm.
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
It is interesting that @thisisyourparty.bsky.social has been relatively closely following the "1-9-90" rule that @paologerbaudo.bsky.social has discussed as a characteristic of "digital parties":
- 800,000 expressed support
- 50,000 joined as members
- 8-10,000 participating in online voting
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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caitbeaumont.bsky.social
Sad to miss next Weds & last online seminar for Term 1 of @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social due to hols 🙁. It's a good one with editors @evansmithhist.bsky.social & @d-j-frost.bsky.social + contributors to their new book. Register now 🎟️ & come along!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Roundtable with editors and authors of In solidarity, under suspicion The British far left from 1956
(Manchester University Press, 2025
www.history.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
The historian’s curse:

May your research be relevant to contemporary events
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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zarahsultana.bsky.social
We must unite the left.

The witch hunt must end.

Your Party cannot be a Labour 2.0.

It must be led by its members, not MPs.

Vote for a collective leadership model.
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
d-j-frost.bsky.social
A busy (and jetlagged) return to London, but I'm still thinking about @thenacbs.bsky.social in Montreal last weekend! Great to be joined by @alfiesteer.bsky.social and @racheljcollett.bsky.social for our panel on activism in the 1990s, and very grateful to Jess White for stepping in as chair ☃️
Four panellists sit behind a table, with a presentation screen on the left. From left to right: Alfie Steer, Rachel Collett, Daniel Frost, Jess White. Four people stand in the snow on Mont Royal. From left to right: Daniel Frost, Rachel Collett, Jess White, Alfie Steer. A presentation slide. On the left, a screengrab from the Stop the War Coalition instagram page. On the right, text reading: Left-wing activism and digital technologies in the 1990s and 2000s. Below: Daniel Frost (CEA CAPA Education Abroad London) followed by my email address (DFrost@ceacapa.com) and Bluesky details.
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM