Vincent Hiribarren
@bixhiribarren.bsky.social
Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park
Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
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A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions.
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions.
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
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Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
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“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
futurism.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”
On Wednesday!
🏛️ What does the future of history look like in a digital age?
Join us on 15 October for The Digital Futures of History and explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we study, preserve and engage with the past ⬇️
@stuartdunn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social
Join us on 15 October for The Digital Futures of History and explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we study, preserve and engage with the past ⬇️
@stuartdunn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social
The Digital Futures of History | King's College London
Join us in The Digital Futures of History in looking forward to the new ways in which we may soon be looking back.
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
On Wednesday!
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Dans le dernier entretien disponible sur le podcast, on revient sur une triste histoire avec Camille Lefebvre, celle de la colonisation du Sahel. Alors comment cela s'est-il passé ?
https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null
https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Dans le dernier entretien disponible sur le podcast, on revient sur une triste histoire avec Camille Lefebvre, celle de la colonisation du Sahel. Alors comment cela s'est-il passé ?
https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null
https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null
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Empires. Une histoire sociale de l'environnement. Sortie du livre aujourd'hui, après deux ans de travail avec le camarade Antonin Plarier !
Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français.
www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...
Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français.
www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...
Empires - Une histoire sociale de l'environnement - CNRS Editions
Empires - Une histoire sociale de l'environnement (EAN13 : 9782271151889) édité par CNRS Editions - Qu’est-ce que les empires et le colonial font aux environnements qu’ils rencontrent, conquièrent pui...
www.cnrseditions.fr
October 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Empires. Une histoire sociale de l'environnement. Sortie du livre aujourd'hui, après deux ans de travail avec le camarade Antonin Plarier !
Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français.
www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...
Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français.
www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...
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Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
September 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
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📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland"
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland"
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Come and work with me! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR768/p...
PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only) at King's College London
Explore a PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only). Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Come and work with me! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR768/p...
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New in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, ‘Great Sogolon’s House: The Epic of Manden According to the Condé of Fadama (Guinea)’. This epically narrated transcription and translation of the Sunjata epic is rich with detail and rooted in cultural memory.
Discover more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4nm0IWh
Discover more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4nm0IWh
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, ‘Great Sogolon’s House: The Epic of Manden According to the Condé of Fadama (Guinea)’. This epically narrated transcription and translation of the Sunjata epic is rich with detail and rooted in cultural memory.
Discover more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4nm0IWh
Discover more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4nm0IWh
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📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
August 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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A qui appartient une pierre tombée du ciel? Le débat est relancé après la récente vente à New York de la plus grande météorite martienne jamais retrouvée, aujourd'hui revendiquée par le Niger. L'article : ➡️ u.afp.com/SQZ6
August 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A qui appartient une pierre tombée du ciel? Le débat est relancé après la récente vente à New York de la plus grande météorite martienne jamais retrouvée, aujourd'hui revendiquée par le Niger. L'article : ➡️ u.afp.com/SQZ6
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⚠️ Tout a basculé en 48h, avec une pression tout azimut sur Netanyahu contre la famine, pour le cessez-le-feu et pour la reconnaissance de l'État palestinien:
July 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
⚠️ Tout a basculé en 48h, avec une pression tout azimut sur Netanyahu contre la famine, pour le cessez-le-feu et pour la reconnaissance de l'État palestinien:
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[on X @theKanemBorno made a great thread👇]
A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History
In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo:
Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist.
They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.
A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History
In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo:
Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist.
They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.
July 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
[on X @theKanemBorno made a great thread👇]
A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History
In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo:
Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist.
They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.
A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History
In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo:
Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist.
They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.
Pleased to share my recent Development in Practice publication which examines impartiality and humanity in Borno's humanitarian response. Utilising in-depth interviews with humanitarian and government workers, and Borno residents-
July 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
'Digital Humanities #DH and #AI in #AfricanStudies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives'. Double panel today at #ECAS2025 organised with @fmadore.bsky.social www.ecasconference.org/2025/
Home - ECAS 2025
www.ecasconference.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
'Digital Humanities #DH and #AI in #AfricanStudies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives'. Double panel today at #ECAS2025 organised with @fmadore.bsky.social www.ecasconference.org/2025/
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What can hacked websites tell us about the history of the web?
From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...
From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...
Journal of Digital History
The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.
journalofdigitalhistory.org
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
What can hacked websites tell us about the history of the web?
From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...
From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...
Well done to Rasheed Olaniyi! boydellandbrewer.com/978184701428...
Migration and Diaspora Identity in Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1900–1970 - Boydell and Brewer
This book uncovers the driving forces and mechanisms through which Yoruba migrant communities in Kano, the largest commercial and administrative city in nort...
boydellandbrewer.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Well done to Rasheed Olaniyi! boydellandbrewer.com/978184701428...
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• Défendre quoiqu’il en coûte le droit international, s’opposer à l’annexion (Ukraine), au nettoyage ethnique (Gaza) et aux guerres "préventives" (Iran) c’est sauvegarder la possibilité d’un monde habitable 🌏 mais c’est aussi sauver la possibilité d’un projet européen 🇪🇺.
June 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
• Défendre quoiqu’il en coûte le droit international, s’opposer à l’annexion (Ukraine), au nettoyage ethnique (Gaza) et aux guerres "préventives" (Iran) c’est sauvegarder la possibilité d’un monde habitable 🌏 mais c’est aussi sauver la possibilité d’un projet européen 🇪🇺.