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Dan Feather
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Historian interested in cultural diplomacy, the 'British world', and southern Africa. Attempting to write a book about British-Rhodesian cultural relations during UDI while also examining British policy towards the South African Bantustans
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Edited by @meltorrent.bsky.social & Lauriane Simony, this collection of articles is key reading for anyone interested in British foreign policy in the second half of the Twentieth Century: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...
Latest articles from Contemporary British History
Browse the latest articles and research from Contemporary British History
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Pleased to see my review of the Contemporary British History special issue “Diplomatic Departures: Negotiating Britain’s International Outreach in the Contemporary World'' has been published by @h-diplo.bsky.social (Available at: networks.h-net.org/group/discus...)
H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Article Review 183: Feather on "Diplomatic Departures" | H-Net
The Jervis ForumH-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Article Review 183
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'Historians of Cultural Diplomacy' going from strength to strength as we follow up our inaugural in person @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk funded event in Liverpool with an online event hosted by @lgmar.bsky.social at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Spending the afternoon going through the excellent abstracts we have received for this event in advance of a planning meeting later
A new Research Network - Historians of Cultural Diplomacy - has emerged from the @britishacademy.bsky.social/ @leverhulme.ac.uk sponsored workshop I organised in February. Thanks to the brilliant work of @lgmar.bsky.social we now have our own website: sites.google.com/ucm.es/hcd
Whatever your views on Owen Jones, this is pretty disgraceful. I remember he went the Tory Party conference a couple of years ago, and while I think party grandees just ignored him and left to speak to teenage members, he was allowed to be there for the duration
I think Burnham would make a much better PM than Starmer, but the joke allegedly doing the rounds amongst some Labour MPs sums him up: A Blairite, Brownite, a Starmerite and a Corbynite walk into a pub, the barman says 'what do you want Andy'
Have a vague hope that the 'Mandelson Affair' might bring Starmer down. But the likelihood is he'll just be replaced by Wes Streeting. Theresa May replaced by BoJo vibes
Crisp early morning walk before the first big meeting of the new academic year
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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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The UK is a country with a rapidly ageing population that needs vast numbers of jobs filling. For it to crash all migration downwards because the public are enraged about small boats is the definition of national madness. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...
Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)
Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”
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Last but certainly not least for this plenary @lindsayaqui.bsky.social discussing Geoffrey Howe
Followed by Rachel Utley discussing Francis Pym
Great talk by FCDO historian Richard Smith on Lord Carington’s time as Foreign Secretary at #BIHG25
Reading for the long train journey down to Norwich for the British International History Group conference at the University of East Anglia
I'm passed the point of saying I'll never vote for this lot again, to the point I will actively canvas against them. You can't really argue they are better than the alternative when they pander to everything the alternative wants anyway
The Labour government’s capitulation to the far right continues
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
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UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences are invited to our informative ERC Synergy Grants 2025 webinar on 8 September.

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I knew this Labour government would be bad, but I didn’t think it would be this bad. Reform tribute act now seems to be the approach.
Took a brief interlude from annual leave to deliver an invited talk to lawyers and civil servants in the UK Cabinet Office's Union & Devolution Directorate as part of their 'Constitution School' series
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‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”

John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
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We will be running our next event on 23/24 October. This will take place online hosted by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (see CFP below). If you are interested in cultural diplomacy (broadly defined) please consider submitting a proposal.
A new Research Network - Historians of Cultural Diplomacy - has emerged from the @britishacademy.bsky.social/ @leverhulme.ac.uk sponsored workshop I organised in February. Thanks to the brilliant work of @lgmar.bsky.social we now have our own website: sites.google.com/ucm.es/hcd