Elly Robson Dezateux
@ellydezateux.bsky.social
Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
Last call for applications to 2 paid, part-time editorial fellowships at History Workshop.
Come and work with us! Hands-on training and experience in public history within a supportive and creative team of ECRs.
Deadline: this Friday
Come and work with us! Hands-on training and experience in public history within a supportive and creative team of ECRs.
Deadline: this Friday
📣We're into the FINAL WEEK for applications for two Editorial Fellowship positions 2025-27!📣
Deadline is midnight 15th August (that's this Friday!), and the fellowships are open to any early career historians. See the post below for the full details:
www.historyworkshop....
Deadline is midnight 15th August (that's this Friday!), and the fellowships are open to any early career historians. See the post below for the full details:
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Last call for applications to 2 paid, part-time editorial fellowships at History Workshop.
Come and work with us! Hands-on training and experience in public history within a supportive and creative team of ECRs.
Deadline: this Friday
Come and work with us! Hands-on training and experience in public history within a supportive and creative team of ECRs.
Deadline: this Friday
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Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
June 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
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How did South African women use culture to build an international anti-apartheid movement?
Kebotlhale Motseathata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble.
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Kebotlhale Motseathata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble.
www.historyworkshop....
The ‘Daisies’ of the Amandla Cultural Ensemble
How did South African women use culture to build an international anti-apartheid movement? Kebotlhale Motseathata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
June 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
How did South African women use culture to build an international anti-apartheid movement?
Kebotlhale Motseathata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble.
www.historyworkshop....
Kebotlhale Motseathata on life in exile with the Amandla Cultural Ensemble.
www.historyworkshop....
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How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?
Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.
www.historyworkshop....
Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.
www.historyworkshop....
Indigenous Historical Practices
Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
May 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?
Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.
www.historyworkshop....
Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.
www.historyworkshop....
Speaking at the first of these events next week. Come along if you're in Oxford!
We've got four amazing events lined up this term. See you there!
April 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Speaking at the first of these events next week. Come along if you're in Oxford!
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On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
goodlawproject.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
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The Supreme Court sided with FWS.
But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.
We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.
We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Supreme Court sided with FWS.
But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.
We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
But it didn’t hear from a single trans person.
This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years.
We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
What do you wish you'd known *before* you began indexing your book?
All advice gratefully received 📖👀📝😬
All advice gratefully received 📖👀📝😬
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What do you wish you'd known *before* you began indexing your book?
All advice gratefully received 📖👀📝😬
All advice gratefully received 📖👀📝😬
I'm proud to be in a queer feminist choir. Community & queer joy feel urgent right now - but it's a struggle to sustain utopian projects when space & funding are in short supply.
Today, we're launching a fundraiser to keep F*Choir thriving. Contribute what you can!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFft...
Today, we're launching a fundraiser to keep F*Choir thriving. Contribute what you can!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFft...
F*Choir for Life! Crowdfunder 2025
YouTube video by F Choir
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March 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'm proud to be in a queer feminist choir. Community & queer joy feel urgent right now - but it's a struggle to sustain utopian projects when space & funding are in short supply.
Today, we're launching a fundraiser to keep F*Choir thriving. Contribute what you can!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFft...
Today, we're launching a fundraiser to keep F*Choir thriving. Contribute what you can!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFft...
It's easy to dismiss or ridicule far-right ideology, but how do they mobilise support from women or ethnic minorities?
This rediscovered talk by Martin Durham highlights important continuities between the suffragette & fascist movements in 1930s Britain - in personnel and demands.
This rediscovered talk by Martin Durham highlights important continuities between the suffragette & fascist movements in 1930s Britain - in personnel and demands.
Why are women drawn to fascist ideologies and movements?
Daniel Jones (@narson.bsky.social) reflects on his timely rediscovery of a History Workshop talk given by the late Martin Durham in 1983.
Daniel Jones (@narson.bsky.social) reflects on his timely rediscovery of a History Workshop talk given by the late Martin Durham in 1983.
Women in the British Union of Fascists
Why are women drawn to fascist ideologies and movements? The timely rediscovery of Martin Durham's talk - given to History Workshop in 1983, looking back to the 1930s - speaks to pressing questions to...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
February 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It's easy to dismiss or ridicule far-right ideology, but how do they mobilise support from women or ethnic minorities?
This rediscovered talk by Martin Durham highlights important continuities between the suffragette & fascist movements in 1930s Britain - in personnel and demands.
This rediscovered talk by Martin Durham highlights important continuities between the suffragette & fascist movements in 1930s Britain - in personnel and demands.
Very excited about this new series on History Workshop - From Place to Place - curated by my colleague Vivien Chan (@inoutofpractice.bsky.social).
You can read their brilliant introduction to itinerant histories here.
You can read their brilliant introduction to itinerant histories here.
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'?
Editorial Fellow Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories called From Place to Place:
www.historyworkshop....
Editorial Fellow Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories called From Place to Place:
www.historyworkshop....
From Place to Place
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'? Vivien Chan introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Very excited about this new series on History Workshop - From Place to Place - curated by my colleague Vivien Chan (@inoutofpractice.bsky.social).
You can read their brilliant introduction to itinerant histories here.
You can read their brilliant introduction to itinerant histories here.
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
Really looking forward to this conference at KCL on Tuesday.
I'll be speaking about how putting the environment in the picture refigures relationships between state and society.
There are still tickets available and it's free to attend:
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...
I'll be speaking about how putting the environment in the picture refigures relationships between state and society.
There are still tickets available and it's free to attend:
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...
Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
Conference on the state and society in early modern Britain.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Really looking forward to this conference at KCL on Tuesday.
I'll be speaking about how putting the environment in the picture refigures relationships between state and society.
There are still tickets available and it's free to attend:
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...
I'll be speaking about how putting the environment in the picture refigures relationships between state and society.
There are still tickets available and it's free to attend:
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...
Radical Reads 2024, recommended by me and fellow History Workshop editors 📚👀
Every year, we ask our editors for their recommendations for reading from the past year.
So whether you're looking for a good read for the holidays or a present for a radical friend, here are our favourite reads of 2024:
www.historyworkshop....
So whether you're looking for a good read for the holidays or a present for a radical friend, here are our favourite reads of 2024:
www.historyworkshop....
Radical Reads 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, the History Workshop editors have chosen a new selection of Radical Reads - all of which have inspired, emboldened and comforted us during another tumultuous year.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 12, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Radical Reads 2024, recommended by me and fellow History Workshop editors 📚👀
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59% of those consulted opposed a ban.
And yet
And yet
December 11, 2024 at 7:05 PM
59% of those consulted opposed a ban.
And yet
And yet
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Hello to all our new followers! We are History Workshop 👋
We seek to
🕯️ deepen understandings of the past
🔥 cast fresh light on the present
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You can read & listen to cutting-edge radical history at www.historyworkshop.org.uk
We seek to
🕯️ deepen understandings of the past
🔥 cast fresh light on the present
☄️ agitate for change in the world
You can read & listen to cutting-edge radical history at www.historyworkshop.org.uk
History Workshop
History Workshop is a digital magazine of radical history. It seeks to deepen understandings of the past, cast fresh light on the present and agitate for change in the world we live in now.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 4, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Hello to all our new followers! We are History Workshop 👋
We seek to
🕯️ deepen understandings of the past
🔥 cast fresh light on the present
☄️ agitate for change in the world
You can read & listen to cutting-edge radical history at www.historyworkshop.org.uk
We seek to
🕯️ deepen understandings of the past
🔥 cast fresh light on the present
☄️ agitate for change in the world
You can read & listen to cutting-edge radical history at www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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NZ research funding/defunding: “The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences." Grim.
Universities are in crisis. We have forgotten that the only way to prepare for the future is to imagine the human in situations yet unknown and to explore the boundaries of the human condition. A focus on economic gain loses sight of all that might be possible.
I do not yet have a comment on this but I ask all New Zealand researchers and businesses read this and consider the full impact of this signal #nzpol www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...
December 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
NZ research funding/defunding: “The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences." Grim.
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At History Workshop, we've put together a radical histories Starter Pack.
It's been joyful to bring together such brilliant researchers, projects and organisations in one place - and of course, there are so many more not yet on Bluesky and not yet on this list.
It's been joyful to bring together such brilliant researchers, projects and organisations in one place - and of course, there are so many more not yet on Bluesky and not yet on this list.
Looking for radical histories on Bluesky?
We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.
Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️
go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV
We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.
Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️
go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV
Radical Histories
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
December 3, 2024 at 12:26 PM
At History Workshop, we've put together a radical histories Starter Pack.
It's been joyful to bring together such brilliant researchers, projects and organisations in one place - and of course, there are so many more not yet on Bluesky and not yet on this list.
It's been joyful to bring together such brilliant researchers, projects and organisations in one place - and of course, there are so many more not yet on Bluesky and not yet on this list.
Signed the contract for my book - Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England - with Cambridge University Press today.
As my book begins its journey into other people's brains, very pleased to see that the contract includes a section titled 'Death of the Author'.
As my book begins its journey into other people's brains, very pleased to see that the contract includes a section titled 'Death of the Author'.
December 2, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Signed the contract for my book - Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England - with Cambridge University Press today.
As my book begins its journey into other people's brains, very pleased to see that the contract includes a section titled 'Death of the Author'.
As my book begins its journey into other people's brains, very pleased to see that the contract includes a section titled 'Death of the Author'.
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At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating.
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM
At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating.
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!
(Part 1)
🍍 🍓 🍽️ 🥩 🍜 🍈
This v large picture of my face is a good excuse to share one of the work hats I wear.
History Workshop is a digital magazine of radical history, which deepens understandings of the past, casts light on the present & agitates for change in the world today.
Take a peek: www.historyworkshop.org.uk
History Workshop is a digital magazine of radical history, which deepens understandings of the past, casts light on the present & agitates for change in the world today.
Take a peek: www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 29, 2024 at 12:01 PM
This v large picture of my face is a good excuse to share one of the work hats I wear.
History Workshop is a digital magazine of radical history, which deepens understandings of the past, casts light on the present & agitates for change in the world today.
Take a peek: www.historyworkshop.org.uk
History Workshop is a digital magazine of radical history, which deepens understandings of the past, casts light on the present & agitates for change in the world today.
Take a peek: www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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🧵 #DisabilityHistoryMonth 🧵
“The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr’d here June 18th, 1756” 🦵
📍 Ystrad Fflur ⛪️
#Wales #History
“The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr’d here June 18th, 1756” 🦵
📍 Ystrad Fflur ⛪️
#Wales #History
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 AM
🧵 #DisabilityHistoryMonth 🧵
“The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr’d here June 18th, 1756” 🦵
📍 Ystrad Fflur ⛪️
#Wales #History
“The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr’d here June 18th, 1756” 🦵
📍 Ystrad Fflur ⛪️
#Wales #History
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Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply!
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research FellowsSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3
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November 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply!
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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Hi folks! Here's a very idiosyncratic beginning of a list of people thinking with rivers, from poets to hydrologists. Far from complete, happy to add more!
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
November 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Hi folks! Here's a very idiosyncratic beginning of a list of people thinking with rivers, from poets to hydrologists. Far from complete, happy to add more!
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB