Evan
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
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Australia was originally in a qualifying group with South Africa, South Korea and North Korea. South Africa was eventually banned, South Korea withdrew due to logistics and North Korea/Australia played their two qualifying games in Prince Sihanouk's Cambodia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_FI...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_FI...
1966 FIFA World Cup qualification (Africa, Asia and Oceania) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 24, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Australia was originally in a qualifying group with South Africa, South Korea and North Korea. South Africa was eventually banned, South Korea withdrew due to logistics and North Korea/Australia played their two qualifying games in Prince Sihanouk's Cambodia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_FI...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_FI...
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It's 60 years since the World Cup in 1966. The qualification process for the tournament was complicated, with 15 African teams boycotting the Cup, as well as other countries (South Korea, Syria) also withdrawing. North Korea was only team not from Europe/South America.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
How Africa boycotted the 1966 World Cup
The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.
www.bbc.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:07 AM
It's 60 years since the World Cup in 1966. The qualification process for the tournament was complicated, with 15 African teams boycotting the Cup, as well as other countries (South Korea, Syria) also withdrawing. North Korea was only team not from Europe/South America.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
It's 60 years since the World Cup in 1966. The qualification process for the tournament was complicated, with 15 African teams boycotting the Cup, as well as other countries (South Korea, Syria) also withdrawing. North Korea was only team not from Europe/South America.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
How Africa boycotted the 1966 World Cup
The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.
www.bbc.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:07 AM
It's 60 years since the World Cup in 1966. The qualification process for the tournament was complicated, with 15 African teams boycotting the Cup, as well as other countries (South Korea, Syria) also withdrawing. North Korea was only team not from Europe/South America.
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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Check out our call for Book Reviews for 2026. Please get in touch with @evansmithhist.bsky.social if you have a book in mind: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
EOI: Book Reviews wanted for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History | H-Net
Dr Evan Smith (Adelaide University/Flinders University) is the current book reviews editor for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The journal is calling for potential book reviewers, so...
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January 24, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Check out our call for Book Reviews for 2026. Please get in touch with @evansmithhist.bsky.social if you have a book in mind: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Look what arrived in the mail today!
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
January 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Look what arrived in the mail today!
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
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manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
A garden and a library, Cicero? In this economy?
January 23, 2026 at 2:46 AM
A garden and a library, Cicero? In this economy?
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CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 AM
CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
Look what arrived in the mail today!
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
January 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Look what arrived in the mail today!
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Quoted this section from it the other day!
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Quoted this section from it the other day!
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Still a few days left to get these two books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social sale.
You can also use the discount to get the paperback editions of the two previous volumes, 'Against the Grain' and 'Waiting for the Revolution'. UK/EU discount applied at till, US/Can use code 'JAN40'.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526107343/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113665/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526107343/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113665/
January 20, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Still a few days left to get these two books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social sale.
Use the MUP sale to pick up our new book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Use the MUP sale to pick up our new book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’.
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
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Anybody got something bubbling on this topic? I need a replacement essay. Get in touch!
January 21, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Anybody got something bubbling on this topic? I need a replacement essay. Get in touch!
Sometimes the prohibitive cost of getting books sent to Australia saves me from buying too many books
January 21, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Sometimes the prohibitive cost of getting books sent to Australia saves me from buying too many books
Still a few days left to get these two books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social sale.
You can also use the discount to get the paperback editions of the two previous volumes, 'Against the Grain' and 'Waiting for the Revolution'. UK/EU discount applied at till, US/Can use code 'JAN40'.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526107343/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113665/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526107343/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526113665/
January 20, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Still a few days left to get these two books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social sale.
Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart (Official Video)
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January 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
I have done this in the past and I really should do it more. I am working my way through some very theoretical stuff at the moment so might send off a few emails to the authors who have helped me think through it.
January 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I have done this in the past and I really should do it more. I am working my way through some very theoretical stuff at the moment so might send off a few emails to the authors who have helped me think through it.
I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
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Oooh good question for historians and archaeologists... what's the oldest thing you've accidentally been injured by?
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
The hazards of archival work
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Oooh good question for historians and archaeologists... what's the oldest thing you've accidentally been injured by?
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
The hazards of archival work
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
January 19, 2026 at 6:23 AM
The hazards of archival work
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
Cafe Kowloon on Gouger St in Adelaide. The best yum cha on a Sunday morning in the 2000s.
Monsoons on Oxford Road in Manchester. A chicken wrap after a night at Jilly’s Rockworld was fab.
Monsoons on Oxford Road in Manchester. A chicken wrap after a night at Jilly’s Rockworld was fab.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Cafe Kowloon on Gouger St in Adelaide. The best yum cha on a Sunday morning in the 2000s.
Monsoons on Oxford Road in Manchester. A chicken wrap after a night at Jilly’s Rockworld was fab.
Monsoons on Oxford Road in Manchester. A chicken wrap after a night at Jilly’s Rockworld was fab.
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"I need to go to the bathroom."
January 18, 2026 at 11:53 PM
"I need to go to the bathroom."
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"I refuse to undo the bottom two of my jacket buttons"
January 18, 2026 at 11:56 PM
"I refuse to undo the bottom two of my jacket buttons"
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“This pamphlet is too big to fit in my jacket pocket”
January 18, 2026 at 11:22 AM
“This pamphlet is too big to fit in my jacket pocket”
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“My hands are glued to this bench”
January 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM
“My hands are glued to this bench”