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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 2h

What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 8d

New article out today! Published on the eve of Ghanaian independence, A Wreath for Udomo fictionalises Kwame Nkrumah's struggle against imperialism and imagines a future after British rule.

hwiccanreview.substack.com/p/accra-noir...

Accra Noir: ‘A Wreath for Udomo’ (Peter Abrahams, 1956)

A political thriller for a nation about to exist

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 1d

Full manuscript submitted! 🙏🏽

word document showing the first three pages of my full book manuscript. all small text on a white page

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 1d

I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

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The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1d

Some very kind words, from an excellent thread on activism and the work of the historian:

Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 1d

The field wouldn‘t be what it is today if marginalised people hadn’t fought for their history, and in fighting developed new methods, knowledge, perspectives. There is a reason one of our best journals is called @historyworkshop.org.uk (in German @werkstattgeschichte.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy)

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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · 4d

As Uganda's elections approach, government agencies have a responsibility to uphold press freedom. We condemn the censorship of Nation Media Group journalists covering parliamentary politics.

#Uganda #Journalismisnotacrime

A statement from the International Press Association of Uganda. It reads:

KAMPALA, 31 October 2025 – On 28 October, journalists working for Nation Media Group were prevented from entering the Parliament of Uganda. Parliamentary officials gave no explanation for their exclusion, and some journalists were threatened with arrest when they protested.

This was not the first instance of targeted censorship by the highest offices in Uganda. In March, journalists from Nation Media Group and Next Broadcasting Services were detained by security forces while covering the Kawempe North by-election and their equipment was destroyed.

Since then, members of Nation Media Group have been blocked from attending public events where President Yoweri Museveni is present, including campaign rallies and the annual state-of-the-nation address.

As Uganda’s elections approach, government agencies have a responsibility to uphold press freedom. The International Press Association of Uganda condemns this censorship. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the Constitution of Uganda, and the public has a right to information that is not directly controlled by the Ugandan authorities.

Denying accredited journalists the right to access the basic workings of government encourages the spread of disinformation, which is especially dangerous in this election period. The Ugandan electorate should have access to reporting on government from a variety of legitimate media outlets, including Nation Media Group.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 5d

How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️

Friends in Common

How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 7d

I read Wreath for Udomo earlier this year, along with Mine Boy, and will seek out more. Interested to find out from your account that Nkrumah did read the book. Abrahams at his best had an ability to present competing realities clearly, in something like the way Brecht's plays do.

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Huge thanks to Hwiccen Review for the opportunity to review a book that's been out for almost seventy years! A Wreath for Udomo was republished recently by @faberbooks.bsky.social, so I'm hoping that helps introduce new audiences to Abrahams' flawed but fascinating novel.

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 8d

New article out today! Published on the eve of Ghanaian independence, A Wreath for Udomo fictionalises Kwame Nkrumah's struggle against imperialism and imagines a future after British rule.

hwiccanreview.substack.com/p/accra-noir...

Accra Noir: ‘A Wreath for Udomo’ (Peter Abrahams, 1956)

A political thriller for a nation about to exist

hwiccanreview.substack.com

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 12d

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?' by Sibylle Scheipers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck is best known as commander of the Schutztruppe in German East Africa during the First World War. His previous career as a colonial officer with deployments in the Boxer Rebe...

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 12d

"These proposals would mean deporting greater numbers and a greater proportion of the population than former Ugandan President Idi Amin's deportation of Ugandan Asians."

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament

It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 14d

In 2011 the British Government was forced to release tens of thousands of secretly held colonial documents from its archives. But 88,000 files on Britain's last colony remain withheld from the public.

Matthew Hurst (@mrmhurst.bsky.social) on Hong Kong's colonial archive.

Memory Exiled

Matthew Hurst explores the 'politics of forgetting' through the missing files of the Hong Kong colonial archive.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 18d

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

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Faisal @faisalahali.bsky.social · 25d

My latest blogpost looks at the almost simultaneous collapse of Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia's governments at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s

89'-91: Northeast Africa's “collective near-death experience”

somaliarchive77.substack.com/p/89-91-nort...

89'-91: Northeast Africa's “collective near-death experience”

Between 1989 and 1991, every government from Chad to Somalia collapsed. The region still grapples with the legacy of this tumultous period.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 20d

OTD in 1945, delegates from across the world gathered in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester to take part in the Fifth Pan-African Congress.

Theo Williams on Black and anti-colonial politics and British radical memory.

The Fifth Pan-African Congress, 1945: A Landmark Moment in British Radical History

In October 1945, delegates from across the world gathered in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, half a mile south of St Peter’s Field, to take part in the Fifth Pan-African Congress.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20d

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 21d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 21d

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector.

Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

No Going Back

Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks, Duncan!!

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 22d

📢 episode 3 is out now

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring
@carbontracker.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and many more

Listen now: www.overshootpod.com

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks, Jacqueline!

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks! And your site looks amazing - thanks for sharing.

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 26d

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Here's our website, where you can follow our latest articles and podcast episodes. And feel free to get in touch if you're a history writer working inside or outside academia - I'm always open to interesting pitches!

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

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 22d

Some exciting personal news: I’m now working at @historyworkshop.org.uk as an Editorial Fellow! It's such a privilege to join a magazine I've loved for years, and to engage with historians and activists from around the world.

A wooden door built into a crumbling stone wall at Mombasa's Fort Jesus. A sign carved above the door marks that it was once the entrance to the offices of the British East Africa Protectorate - the entry point for colonial rulers who would reshape the region and its history.

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