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Margot Tudor
@drmargottudor.bsky.social
Not going to be invited to a UN xmas party any time soon

Senior Lecturer in foreign policy & security at City St George’s, UoL. Historian of UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: http://shorturl.at/aoxzM. she/her
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
when u realise that u actually have to do the revisions on an article that you’ve waited months for and been dying to get out into the world
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Back from a lovely week in Vaxjo for @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social conference on global history with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social and Daniel Laqua. I presented some new work on anti-UN peacekeeping protests on a double panel for our ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ project 🌍
September 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reviewers have commented on my overuse of scare quotes in the past but I’ve got nothing on Ralph Bunche
June 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I’m in NYC for June so was lucky enough to attend an interesting panel at The People’s Forum this evening for @versobooks.bsky.social’s new series on Southern Questions with Adom Getachew, @thiamm.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, & Adéwálé Májà-Pearce. Lots to think about and even more to read 🔥
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Magic to see Max ‘better than the bible’ Porter speak with Dutch translator Saskia van der Lingen for the ‘Translated by, Bristol’ festival this evening. Mad to find out he’s a fellow High Wycombe escapee.
May 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!
May 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Heading back home from a flying visit to Cambridge to comment on a chapter for @lydiawalker.bsky.social’s fascinating new book project on post-SWW interventions ☺️ Also managed to squeeze in a visit to the brilliant ‘Rise Up’ exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum - definitely worth a visit ✊🪧
May 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
being reminded that i need to care about more than just cool book covers when shopping for a press for my next book
May 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
omg it’s payday
April 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
now that it’s offish, what perfect weather to celebrate being promoted to senior lecturer at @cityhistory.bsky.social 🍦
April 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Excited to be attending the IPS symposium on ‘Haunting Histories’ at QMUL today, organised by Joanne Yao and Jaakko Heiskanen. Fab lineup for first panel on ‘The Ghosts of Empire’ with @sarasalem.bsky.social @giofabman.bsky.social, Aja Lans, Nivi Manchanda and chaired by Sharri Plonski 👻
April 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
end of term! first time teaching my module ‘humanitarianism and international interventions’ and my students got me flowers 🌸
April 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Our AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms’, hosted at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, began this morning and we’ve already had fantastic panels on race, space, religious, and Mexican internationalisms. More to come after the coffee break! It’s a gorgeous day in Newcastle ☀️☀️☀️
March 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I was really moved by her stop and search pieces as well, inspired by quick drawings she had made on her son Soloman’s detainment papers; the materiality of her painting across a copy of the Financial Times showing a headline article on police violence…
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
of having your identity challenged, your past rewritten. By making these figures visible alongside the paperwork, Walker forces the viewer to rehumanise the subject of the document in direct contraction to the dehumanisation of the bureaucratic process of immigration and citizenship in the UK…
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
as canvases for her graphite sketches of people affected during the Windrush scandal. I really recommend getting up close to these huge pieces to see the ghost-like sketch marks she has made behind the figures, exaggerating the disorienting and disassociating experience…
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I visited some of the Barbara Walker ‘Being Here’ exhibit at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social this afternoon to see her recent series ‘burden of proof’ and some of her older pieces on stop and search. In her recent series, she uses receipts, government paperwork, and MP correspondence…
March 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
March 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
My new article ‘Mission Impossible?
Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
March 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
deep in the UN archives catalogue today to plan for my visit to NYC in june and i've never needed to see a file more
February 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
February 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
There’s a queue for smokes 😂
February 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
✨GIVEAWAY✨
Smokes has taken over my CUP delivery box so it’s time for a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats!

UK and EU addresses only pls (soz global pals!). RT & like for entry. Will randomly select the winners next Sat. 🩵💙🩵
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM