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Dr Siobhan Hyland
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Researcher at UON’s Centre for Historical Studies, Associate Lecturer at the OU
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
In @errnetwork.bsky.social's latest blog post @siobhanhyland.bsky.social explains how she's working on my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project as a research assistant: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️
The Extreme Right and its use of the medieval past to inform its profile | UON
This blog follows on from Associate Professor Rachel Moss’ blog on Getting Medieval? The Extreme Right and the Distant Past. During the summer, I...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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great presentations from @menysnoweballes.bsky.social and @siobhanhyland.bsky.social for @carantes.bsky.social tonight. and lo and behold: echosofantiquity.com/products/mod...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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narson.bsky.social
Delighted to get my author copy of this - including my chapter with @siobhanhyland.bsky.social on some of our wellbeing approaches from the @searchlightarchive.bsky.social. A fantastic first book from the annual conferences of @uninorthampton.bsky.social’s Centre for Historical studies.
September 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Addressing the Extreme Right Threat: A Year after the Riots A free workshop on 6 June at University of Northampton 🗃️https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20064239/addressing-extreme-right-threat-year-after-riots
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March 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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narson.bsky.social
The Extreme Right Research Network (@errnetwork.bsky.social) has updated its Extreme Right Aware CPD training for 2025. Thanks to funding, tickets are only £20 and we have free tickets we can make available for charities, community groups etc. Led by @pnjackson.bsky.social, on 23rd May 2025.
A poster for the event, in blue with a picture of a burning police van on the right. The main text reads: Extreme Right Aware 23 May 2025 10am to 3.30pm Waterside Campus Sunley Hotel The extreme right space is fast-changing and complex. What risks does it pose? What draws people to such extremism? How does it cultivate violence and even terrorism? What can be done to tackle it? Updated for 2025, this Extreme Right Aware CPD workshop will explore the history of the extreme right, help you identify extreme-right groups and messaging, and explore how they organise and campaign – including in the online space. The day-long CPD workshop offers an important introduction to those new to this area, will deepen knowledge, and acts as a refresher for those already experienced working on the extreme right. Lunch and refreshments are provided, and parking is available. Tickets are £20, and free tickets are available for charities and educational groups, or as incentives for group bookings. Please contact Dr Daniel Jones at: Daniel.jones@northampton.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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narson.bsky.social
This summer the Extreme Right Research Network will be hosting a free in-person workshop/conference covering the Extreme Right. With talks from academics, practitioners and professionals, it should be a great day. Please share with your networks, and get in touch if you are interested in attending.
A poster advertising the Addressing the Extreme Right Threat: A Year after the Riots workshop at the University of Northampton. It takes place on the 6th of June 2025, from 9.30am to 4.30pm, and is free to register. The event will explore key aspects of contemporary extreme right politics and will set a research agenda for the Extreme Right Research Network based on the issues raised by all participants. As well as workshop activities, there will be four keynote talks from Prof. Roger Griffin, Dr Sophie James, Mark Wilson and Rajesh Thind. We welcome a wide range of participants including academic researchers (including postgraduate and early career researchers), as well as practitioners and professionals such as journalists, policymakers, specialists from local government, charities and NGOs, and the policing and criminal justice sector. Any queries, or to register your interest, please contact Dr Daniel Jones at Daniel.Jones@northampton.ac.uk.
March 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
siobhanhyland.bsky.social
📢 The Centre for Historical Studies annual conference will be on the 7-8 July 2025 and the call for papers is live. Please consider submitting an abstract and please do share the call for papers with your wider networks. The link:

lnkd.in/gZDbWGsu

The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2025.
February 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY WOMEN HISTORIANS: Political Nostalgias Volume 2 - the modern and contemporary world. 🗃️ Please share with your networks. Any questions - email me!
Following the success of our Politicised Nostalgias conferences last summer, I am moving ahead with Arc Humanities Press to deliver an ongoing series titled Political Nostalgias. Our second planned volume, Political Nostalgias in the Modern and Contemporary World, has an exciting set of chapters already established, but women are underrepresented in the volume. Brief description: Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or sentimental longing for a past period or set of conditions, has played a significant role in the shaping of historical and contemporary political discourses. This volume explores the role of nostalgia in modern and contemporary politics around the globe, exposing the often seamy underbelly of what can be assumed to be a positive emotional state. Nostalgia for a lost past (or a past that has really never been) may spur political actors on to build a better world – but better for whom, and on whose terms? While nostalgia can induce a positive emotional response in some, not all efforts to deploy idealized visions of the past are successful, marginalizing some and creating a more complex emotional landscape than may have been envisioned. Movements that push back against nostalgia as a means of political engagement further test assumptions about nostalgia’s perceived role in different societies. This series takes a global perspective to explore the ways in which collective nostalgia has been—and continues to be—both harnessed to justify a spectrum of political ends and contested. We welcome 200-250-word abstracts for 6000-word chapters of modern or contemporary history that engage with nostalgia. We particularly welcome contributions that focus on the Global South, but will consider all submissions from scholars who define themselves as women. Though please note, we do not currently require more chapters on British history, and we do not require North American history as there is a whole volume planned on this theme for later in the series …
February 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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amycking.bsky.social
Delighted to share news of a free in-person workshop I've co-organised in May at the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) to discuss the need for explicitly antifascist pedagogies against the rising tide of far-right support and what that practice would look like.

Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...
Developing Anti-Fascist Pedagogies
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February 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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pnjackson.bsky.social
My new article on British fascism and emotions has just been published in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies:

‘Wake Up—John’: Proto-Fascist Anxieties and the Emotionology of the British Fascists

It's open access here: brill.com/view/journal...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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davidkr.bsky.social
Looking for a recommendation - an academic who could give a talk on why social media privilege the far right. What is it about the algorithms that has those effects? Event would be evening in the UK, but they could participate remotely. Particularly looking for a woman speaker, if possible.
November 14, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
BUMP for my politicised nostalgias online workshop next week. Can't wait for the in person day tomorrow!! We've got lots of sign ups for this already so should have a good audience. shop.northampton.ac.uk/product-cata... 🗃️
Political Nostalgias: Online Workshop (12 July) 24 | Northampton Online Store
Participants for a summer workshop at the University of Northampton are invited to present working papers related to political nostalgias from any point in
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July 4, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Now @narson.bsky.social & @siobhanhyland.bsky.social discuss The National Front in the East Midlands: A Local View 1967-1984. Mainstream politicians like Cyril Osborne, MP for Louth, had stoked anxieties about immigration from the 50s onward. 1968: foundation of Anti-Immigration Society in Leicester
July 1, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Today the Extreme Right Research Network are hosting online conference Local Contexts, Extreme Politics - some really fascinating papers. Currently listening to the ever-excellent
Paul Jackson discussing The National Socialist Group: A North East Lincolnshire Groupuscule. 🗃️
July 1, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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narson.bsky.social
Next Monday my colleague @siobhanhyland.bsky.social and I are hosting a free online conference/workshop on local and regional extremism in the historical and contemporary context. Register (and see our programme) at:

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Local Contexts, Extreme Politics – 01 July 2024 | Northampton Online Store
This one-day free online workshop is aimed at both academics and practitioners, providing a space for exploration of the importance of local contexts up ex
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June 24, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
BTW I'll do a proper post when the programme is finalised, but if you're already keen to attend the online 12 July day you can sign up now. Timings TBC but will be attempting to accommodate multiple time zones. Register here: shop.northampton.ac.uk/product-cata...
June 6, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Had an interesting range of people sign up to this so far! Do get in touch if you've got any queries and please share with your networks.
menysnoweballes.bsky.social Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · Jun 3
Our Extreme Right Research Network is hosting two training events that may be of interest to you! One is this Friday and one is the 21st. Please share and feel free to sign up if you are interested!
The extreme right space is fast changing and complex. What risks does it pose? What draws people to such extremism? How does it cultivate violence and even terrorism? What can be done to tackle it? These 90 minute online courses will help equip professionals with a deeper knowledge of the extreme right in Britain. It is aimed at police officers, hate crime workers, teachers and other educators, NGOs, and other professionals whose work engages with the extreme right or the Prevent Agenda more broadly. They may also be of interest to researchers and practitioners from other countries who are interested in understanding the extreme right in global contexts. Friday 7 June, 4 – 5.30pm EXTREME RIGHT AWARE: ONLINE RADICALISATION Led by Dr Rachel Moss What do TikTok “Tradwives”, YouTube personality Andrew Tate and Instagram homesteaders have in common? In this session our expert in gender history, Dr Rachel Moss, will draw out the ways that extreme right groups are targeting specific demograph
June 5, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Our Extreme Right Research Network is hosting two training events that may be of interest to you! One is this Friday and one is the 21st. Please share and feel free to sign up if you are interested!
The extreme right space is fast changing and complex. What risks does it pose? What draws people to such extremism? How does it cultivate violence and even terrorism? What can be done to tackle it? These 90 minute online courses will help equip professionals with a deeper knowledge of the extreme right in Britain. It is aimed at police officers, hate crime workers, teachers and other educators, NGOs, and other professionals whose work engages with the extreme right or the Prevent Agenda more broadly. They may also be of interest to researchers and practitioners from other countries who are interested in understanding the extreme right in global contexts. Friday 7 June, 4 – 5.30pm EXTREME RIGHT AWARE: ONLINE RADICALISATION Led by Dr Rachel Moss What do TikTok “Tradwives”, YouTube personality Andrew Tate and Instagram homesteaders have in common? In this session our expert in gender history, Dr Rachel Moss, will draw out the ways that extreme right groups are targeting specific demograph
June 3, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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narson.bsky.social
Following feedback, and interest from abroad, we have switched our workshop/conference on local contexts of extremism to an online event. If you'd like to come along, or give a talk, do get in touch! Some great talks already lined up. 🗃️
May 21, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Reminder! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Our 5 July day is FULL but our online 12 July day has space for speakers - send me an abstract by the end of the month please! 🗃️
Politicised Nostalgias | University of Northampton
Participants are invited to a workshop on political nostalgias, from the ancient world to the contemporary moment.
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May 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Thursday boost, please share. I know many people were interested first time round but can’t get to Northampton - well, now you can take part!! 🗃️
menysnoweballes.bsky.social Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · May 13
Exciting news - had such a strong response to my Politicised Nostalgias CFP I have now added an additional ONLINE day on 12 July & have reopened the call, please share & submit your abstracts by 31/5! The in person day is currently full. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
Politicised Nostalgias | University of Northampton
Participants are invited to a workshop on political nostalgias, from the ancient world to the contemporary moment.
www.northampton.ac.uk
May 16, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Exciting news - had such a strong response to my Politicised Nostalgias CFP I have now added an additional ONLINE day on 12 July & have reopened the call, please share & submit your abstracts by 31/5! The in person day is currently full. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
Politicised Nostalgias | University of Northampton
Participants are invited to a workshop on political nostalgias, from the ancient world to the contemporary moment.
www.northampton.ac.uk
May 13, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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narson.bsky.social
The in-person workshop/small conference I'm running with @siobhanhyland.bsky.social has extended its call for proposals until May 4th. Aimed at both charities and others working around radicalisation, as well as historians 🗃️ and other academics working in this area. If you are curious, get in touch!
April 17, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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narson.bsky.social
Last day to get abstracts in for this in person conference at Northampton on 4th July. Want to present your work that examines extremism in relation to place or sub-national contexts? Want to engage with a mixed audience of practitioners and academics? Drop us an email! 🗃️
April 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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narson.bsky.social
Final week to get abstracts in for this event on local and regional contexts of the far right. Historical and contemporary examinations welcome. If you want to put an abstract in but need a bit more time, drop me a line. 🗃️
narson.bsky.social Daniel Jones @narson.bsky.social · Mar 14
Just under a month left on this call for papers/proposals. If you don't want to give a paper, but would like to attend let me know so I can tell you once we have registration open. Will be relevant to academics, people working in charity/education/police/Local Gov countering or monitoring extremism.
April 8, 2024 at 10:00 AM