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Evan
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
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Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian and southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller
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If you’re interested in the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, our book ‘Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia’ is now on sale with a 20% discount.

@drjpersian.bsky.social

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November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
You guys have developmental editing?
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
11 November being both Armistice Day and anniversary of Rhodesia’s UDÌ was exploited by the far right. This 1971 Times article mentions the UK’s National Front, which supported Rhodesia, laying a wreath on Remembrance Sunday in memory of Rhodesian airmen.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
On 9 November, 1982, the alternative comedy sitcom The Young Ones debuted on the BBC.

I have argued that watching this show gives in a great historical insight into Britain during the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership.

hatfulofhistory.com/2014/06/10/i...
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
The next edition of the paper (13 November, 1989) was just as muted.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

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November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
This morning I’m having
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
48 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union.
November 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Routledge are having a Black Friday sale so use the code ‘BF2025S’ to get 25% off my books!

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November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Routledge are having a Black Friday sale so use the code ‘BF2025S’ to get 25% off my books!

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November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Beginning of the project/End of the project
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
On 1 November 1956, E.P Thompson and John Saville published the third issue of The Reasoner in protest against the Soviet invasion of Hungary.

The Amiel and Melburn Trust has digitised all three issues of The Reasoner published in 1956 by Thompson and Saville.

banmarchive.org.uk/the-reasoner/
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
When you look at your Google Scholar citations
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Normal day for a historian
Still of Mr Blobby crashing onto the set of Noel’s Fun House with caption ‘Me on my way to tell someone unsolicited morbid information that I will describe as a “fun fact”.’
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Witty part of academic paper title: Serious description of what the paper is about
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Lol.

But seriously, I think it is more likely recognition by historians that totalising statements, common in other fields, make us wary and we feel more comfortable gesturing towards an overall thesis.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Whenever I hear Mickey Spillane…
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
As I considered Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, I couldn’t help but think that he forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
When you're trying to figure out the purpose of the paper you're writing...
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Why is @maxrushden.bsky.social (sorry, ‘Generic Man #3) on my chilli garlic chutney bottle?

@phlaimeaux.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
As @livunipress.bsky.social are promoting International Open Access Week, here is an OA article that @njbarnett.bsky.social and I wrote about communism and nuclear disarmament in 1950s Britain for Labour History Review in 2017.

@sslh.bsky.social

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epdf/10....
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Look what is coming soon from @manchesterup.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
Having recently filled my new book shelves after being in storage, I’ve decided to take a photo of an unpacked book a day. Going across my shelves, left to right, unit by unit.

Day 59 - In Apartheid’s Shadow by Roger Bell

Join me for another each day (sometimes with a slight delay)
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
evansmithhist.bsky.social
In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII.

@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

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chapter 7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: the Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation Andrew Williams The forced repatriation of Chinese seamen at the end of the Second World War from Liverpool, in Northwest England, was the subject of a long- form journalistic investigation in 2021, published in The Guardian newspaper.1 A few weeks later, Liverpool Labour mp Kim Johnson raised it in Parliament. She called on the Conservative government to launch an inquiry into the affair and to acknowledge that in the case of these men, and the families they left behind, ‘justice delayed’ was ‘justice denied.’2 In response, the Home Office – the department responsible for immigration – pledged to investigate the actions of its antecedents in conspiring to repatriate hundreds of Chinese men after Britain had defeated fascism in Europe and Asia. Liverpool’s Chinese community has always been centred in its Chinatown, which is claimed to be the oldest in Europe, although substantive historical investigations into this community are few and far between. Perhaps the best account has been written by Maria Lin Wong, whom in 1989 published a history based primarily on oral testimony.3 Gregory B. Lee, a Chinese studies scholar, has published other research, approaching the history of the community from a postcolonial studies perspective.4 Even fewer publications directly address the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen after the Second World War. Wong made only brief mention of it based on what she was told and would have been unable to explore it any further as the archival sources had not been released to the public at the time. John Belchem, in his valuable history of race relations in twentieth- century Liverpool, did provide an account of the repatriation, but..
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM