John Siblon
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John Siblon
@johnsiblon25.bsky.social
Historian interested in legacies of empire and colonialism, especially commemoration of war dead.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In 1940, after surrender of French forces, white soldiers were made POWs but 200 Senegalese infantrymen were massacred. The local population secretly buried their bodies in a mass grave before reinterment in an African style ‘tata’ in Chasselay. It was vandalised this year but is now restored.
July 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@batw.bsky.social Thanks for the opportunity to give a paper at #batw2025 on the imperial dimension to WW1 commemoration with Louise Rodwell, Francis Van Berkel and Sarah Fissmer. Used my time in Liverpool to seek out one of Britain’s first memorials to black service personnel in Faulkner Square.
June 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Just bonkers. Pro-Israel groups taunting pro-Palestine protesters by singing Stevie Wonder to the tune of “Happy Birthday to us!”
May 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Twenty-five years since Bernie Grant’s passing but his call for social justice and reparations lives on. Visit the Bernie Grant archive and donate to the trust if you can: berniegrantarchive.org.uk
April 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM