Conor Muller
@conormuller.bsky.social
History PhD @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social in c18–19th migration control and border surveillance in France, Britain, colonies
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‘Wedderburn argued that true freedom was possible only if land were handed over to the formerly enslaved. Where it wasn’t given, it should be taken.’
Chris Townsend on the Black abolitionist and antislavery campaigner.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Townsend on the Black abolitionist and antislavery campaigner.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Townsend · On Hopkins Street: Radical Robert Wedderburn
For a brief time in the 1810s and 1820s, Robert Wedderburn embodied the possibility of common ground between the two...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
‘Wedderburn argued that true freedom was possible only if land were handed over to the formerly enslaved. Where it wasn’t given, it should be taken.’
Chris Townsend on the Black abolitionist and antislavery campaigner.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Chris Townsend on the Black abolitionist and antislavery campaigner.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Programme and registration for International Actors in the Making of International Law 1750–2000 are now available!
Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750–2000)
This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – ...
calenda.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Programme and registration for International Actors in the Making of International Law 1750–2000 are now available!
I have a very short article out Fenêtre sur Tour, the magazine of the departmental archives of Seine-Maritime, on British migrant technicians and mechanics in Rouen c.1800!
Revue Fenêtre sur Tour - Archives de la Seine-Maritime
www.archivesdepartementales76.net
October 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have a very short article out Fenêtre sur Tour, the magazine of the departmental archives of Seine-Maritime, on British migrant technicians and mechanics in Rouen c.1800!
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IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
My brother and I are now a week into our sponsored bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats and we have made it as far as Warrington(!), about 650km from the start. We're raising money for the Brain Tumour Charity and Solace in honour of our late mum. Please do consider donating what you can!
Nanette's Boys Cycle Across The UK
This summer Danny & Conor will be cycling the length of the UK from Lands End in Cornwall to John O' Groats in the most northeastern Scotland.
We will be cycling across the country in our mum Nanette...
www.givewheel.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
My brother and I are now a week into our sponsored bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats and we have made it as far as Warrington(!), about 650km from the start. We're raising money for the Brain Tumour Charity and Solace in honour of our late mum. Please do consider donating what you can!
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Anas Al-Sharif’s last will and testament, written in April: “I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person... I entrust you with its people, w/its wronged & innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace.”
August 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Anas Al-Sharif’s last will and testament, written in April: “I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person... I entrust you with its people, w/its wronged & innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace.”
Last day for this!
🚨 The CfP is out for 'Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000'. Deadline for submissions is 10th August. Please share with your PhD students and ECRs in history and law! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for applications - Junior colloquium
Colloque junior, CHSP, Sciences Po Paris, 27-28 November 2025Abstracts submission deadline: 10 August 2025Contact: [email protected] by Sciences Po School of Research and the Cent...
www.sciencespo.fr
August 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Last day for this!
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When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
August 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
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In the Israeli parliament MP Ofer Cassif was pulled away from the podium & prevented from continuing his speech. Why? Because he said genocide was taking place in Gaza.
Meanwhile here in the UK we're constantly told Israel is a democracy.
Meanwhile here in the UK we're constantly told Israel is a democracy.
August 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
In the Israeli parliament MP Ofer Cassif was pulled away from the podium & prevented from continuing his speech. Why? Because he said genocide was taking place in Gaza.
Meanwhile here in the UK we're constantly told Israel is a democracy.
Meanwhile here in the UK we're constantly told Israel is a democracy.
Summer 2025 very much in progress
August 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Summer 2025 very much in progress
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
July 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
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The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
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It's shameful that we were even considering renewing him.
The people at the top of the club were not blind to this situation, and still considered it in the interests of sporting expedience.
Lessons should be learned.
The people at the top of the club were not blind to this situation, and still considered it in the interests of sporting expedience.
Lessons should be learned.
Former Arsenal player Thomas Partey charged with rape
Former Arsenal player Thomas Partey charged with rape
Former Arsenal football player Thomas Partey has been charged with five counts of rape.
news.sky.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's shameful that we were even considering renewing him.
The people at the top of the club were not blind to this situation, and still considered it in the interests of sporting expedience.
Lessons should be learned.
The people at the top of the club were not blind to this situation, and still considered it in the interests of sporting expedience.
Lessons should be learned.
🚨 The CfP is out for 'Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000'. Deadline for submissions is 10th August. Please share with your PhD students and ECRs in history and law! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for applications - Junior colloquium
Colloque junior, CHSP, Sciences Po Paris, 27-28 November 2025Abstracts submission deadline: 10 August 2025Contact: [email protected] by Sciences Po School of Research and the Cent...
www.sciencespo.fr
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🚨 The CfP is out for 'Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000'. Deadline for submissions is 10th August. Please share with your PhD students and ECRs in history and law! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Libraries are a pretty cool place to be right now. (We have air con).
July 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Libraries are a pretty cool place to be right now. (We have air con).
Really looking forward to contributing to this exciting workshop next week with an amazing lineup of speakers!
Displacement and the French Revolution
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Really looking forward to contributing to this exciting workshop next week with an amazing lineup of speakers!
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If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention. this film tells us nothing new about the situation in the occupied West Bank.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention. this film tells us nothing new about the situation in the occupied West Bank.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament.
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament.
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
Oxford academics drank from a chalice made from a human skull for decades, a book that explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains has revealed.
The skull-cup, fashioned from a sawn-off and polished braincase adorned with a silver rim and stand, was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College, Oxford, until 2015, according to Prof Dan Hicks, the curator of world archaeology at the university’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals
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This is why I’m here:
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
November 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
This is why I’m here:
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was sixteen, to her sister, Kate a few months later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/10
I should probably make this website my homepage
April 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I should probably make this website my homepage