25 participants from around the world are on their way to Malmö for the second Global Solidarity Network Workshop, which starts tomorrow. We'll spend two days finding connections - across themes, sources, groups and individuals - from Australia and Argentina to Thailand and Zimbabwe.

Up bright and early to head to Liverpool for the annual UKLAH meeting, looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues now I’ve emerged from my marking cave!

Intimidating bunting is back at JW! @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Huge turn out for our first day of strike action today! Saying no to job cuts!

Thrilled to see Nicaragua Must Survive discussed in a H-Diplo roundtable. Deeply grateful to @mollyavery.bsky.social , Michelle Chase, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @sarahosten.bsky.social for their engagement and kind words. Thank you @emleake.bsky.social for organising!

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Funnily enough, I've been working on historic 'Buy British' campaigns recently. Some thoughts in the monster (!) thread 👇

Tl;dr: BB is a moralised demand on consumers that currently loses out to rivals - but only because of geopolitics. I.e. this is not destiny.

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So looking forward to this - if you’re at SLAS this week please come along!

Operation Condor - 50 years on

Join us for two roundtables @slaslatam.bsky.social
🗓️ April 11
⏰ 11-12:30 & 13:30-15

With brilliant Francesca Lessa, @sebasmartl.bsky.social @mollyavery.bsky.social @thomasrath.bsky.social @john-mcevoy.bsky.social @paulodrinot.bsky.social Karinna Fernandez

For historians of Latin America based in the UK: you can now submit materials to the 2025 UK Latin American Historians Early Career Article Prize AND the 2025 UKLAH Dissertation Prize. Deadline is 31 March 2025. Please spread the word! More information here: uklah.wordpress.com/opportunitie...

Women are encouraged by pop feminism, self help books and bullshit leadership courses to internalise the ways that they aren’t taken seriously in the workplace and to label that as imposter syndrome that they have to overcome. It puts all the blame on women as individuals. It’s anti-solidarity.

The Americas published - open access🎉 - a review essay, entitled "Beyond US Hegemony: Reevaluating Central America’s Cold War Through Local Agency and Transnational Dynamics." Thank you Carmen Kordick for the thougthful review, including books by Schmidli, Wells, Foss, and myself. shorturl.at/FZFzA

Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals!

More info here:
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Sheffield-area folk who love high quality local journalism: please subscribe to @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social! It's a great paper, and local journalism is more improtant than ever! Plus - an excellent Xmas gift! www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/get-us-over-...

Great to bring students down to Senate House Library to see the Latin American pamphlet and poster collections

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Troubled to learn that students & staff both LSE & non-LSE are being targeted with complaints & defamation threats for social media posts in relation to the findings of a March 2024 Beaver article.

❗️ Pls share with anyone who may have been targeted, legal info below

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Les comparto mi último artículo, que estudia la colaboración transnacional (que los actores llaman "internacionalismo") que los activistas mexicanos brindaron al FMLN, conducción del proceso insurgente salvadoreño que atravesó la última década de Guerra Fría: www.academia.edu/126019020/No...