Melanie Torrent
@meltorrent.bsky.social
British & Commonwealth history, Franco-British relations and connected ends of empire, foreign policy & diplomatic cultures Université Picardie Jules Verne & Institute of Commonwealth studies
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🌎 Nous aurons l'immense joie d'accueillir, en tant qu'invitée d'honneur, la poétesse, romancière et "fellow" de la Royal Society of Literature : Patience Agbabi (🔗 congres2026.saesfrance.org/invite-dhonn...) !!!
🚨 N'hésitez pas à consulter son site web : 🔗 patienceagbabi.wordpress.com !
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🚨 N'hésitez pas à consulter son site web : 🔗 patienceagbabi.wordpress.com !
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December 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🌎 Nous aurons l'immense joie d'accueillir, en tant qu'invitée d'honneur, la poétesse, romancière et "fellow" de la Royal Society of Literature : Patience Agbabi (🔗 congres2026.saesfrance.org/invite-dhonn...) !!!
🚨 N'hésitez pas à consulter son site web : 🔗 patienceagbabi.wordpress.com !
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🚨 N'hésitez pas à consulter son site web : 🔗 patienceagbabi.wordpress.com !
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Nous cherchons de jeunes chercheurs et doctorants pour notre journée d’étude dédiée au concept d’anthropomorphisme, en collaboration avec le programme transversal « humanités environnementales » qui aura lieu le 27.03.26.
Voici une liste non-exclusive de thèmes possibles:
Nous cherchons de jeunes chercheurs et doctorants pour notre journée d’étude dédiée au concept d’anthropomorphisme, en collaboration avec le programme transversal « humanités environnementales » qui aura lieu le 27.03.26.
Voici une liste non-exclusive de thèmes possibles:
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
[APPEL A COMMUNICATION]
Nous cherchons de jeunes chercheurs et doctorants pour notre journée d’étude dédiée au concept d’anthropomorphisme, en collaboration avec le programme transversal « humanités environnementales » qui aura lieu le 27.03.26.
Voici une liste non-exclusive de thèmes possibles:
Nous cherchons de jeunes chercheurs et doctorants pour notre journée d’étude dédiée au concept d’anthropomorphisme, en collaboration avec le programme transversal « humanités environnementales » qui aura lieu le 27.03.26.
Voici une liste non-exclusive de thèmes possibles:
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This is tonight! 6pm! York! Come along if you're in the neighbourhood
On Wednesday at 6pm my two fantastic colleagues Purba Hossain and @lauracforster.bsky.social are having a joint book launch for their new monographs at Kings Manor in the centre of York. If you're interested you can sign up at the Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/labour-mov....
Labour Movements and Movements of Labour in Britain and its Empire
York historians explore 19th-century labour politics, transnational radicalism, and indentured migration following the abolition of slavery.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is tonight! 6pm! York! Come along if you're in the neighbourhood
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We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
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If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
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December 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Un colloque aura lieu à Lisbonne en mai prochain sur les liens entre musique et exil.
Propositions à envoyer jusqu’au 15 janvier.
Plus d’infos sur ce lien 👇
www.inetmd.pt/difusao/cfp-...
Propositions à envoyer jusqu’au 15 janvier.
Plus d’infos sur ce lien 👇
www.inetmd.pt/difusao/cfp-...
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Un colloque aura lieu à Lisbonne en mai prochain sur les liens entre musique et exil.
Propositions à envoyer jusqu’au 15 janvier.
Plus d’infos sur ce lien 👇
www.inetmd.pt/difusao/cfp-...
Propositions à envoyer jusqu’au 15 janvier.
Plus d’infos sur ce lien 👇
www.inetmd.pt/difusao/cfp-...
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In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
"Brexit has only cemented a dangerously misguided sense that international engagement is not essential to the UK’s future.
If we want young people to study languages, the government needs to show that doing so can lead to real and exciting careers."
If we want young people to study languages, the government needs to show that doing so can lead to real and exciting careers."
'More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.' 1/2
The procession of university language closures will trip up UK diplomacy
The government needs to signal its demand for elite foreign language skills before more universities leave provision to inferior alternatives, says Ian Proud
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November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Brexit has only cemented a dangerously misguided sense that international engagement is not essential to the UK’s future.
If we want young people to study languages, the government needs to show that doing so can lead to real and exciting careers."
If we want young people to study languages, the government needs to show that doing so can lead to real and exciting careers."
What difference can the Commonwealth and its institutions make in an "increasingly disordered world where might not right is ascendant", asks Dr James Chiriyankandath
We're delighted to be co-hosting the 2-day event on Cultures of Democracy'
Day 1 has begun with opening remarks from Prof Sue Onslow and #ICwS Director Prof Kingsley Abbott who asked "Is there room for quiet diplomacy?"
#Cultures #Democracy #Commonwealth #Activism #CommonwealthDiplomacy
Day 1 has begun with opening remarks from Prof Sue Onslow and #ICwS Director Prof Kingsley Abbott who asked "Is there room for quiet diplomacy?"
#Cultures #Democracy #Commonwealth #Activism #CommonwealthDiplomacy
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What difference can the Commonwealth and its institutions make in an "increasingly disordered world where might not right is ascendant", asks Dr James Chiriyankandath
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We're delighted to be co-hosting the 2-day event on Cultures of Democracy'
Day 1 has begun with opening remarks from Prof Sue Onslow and #ICwS Director Prof Kingsley Abbott who asked "Is there room for quiet diplomacy?"
#Cultures #Democracy #Commonwealth #Activism #CommonwealthDiplomacy
Day 1 has begun with opening remarks from Prof Sue Onslow and #ICwS Director Prof Kingsley Abbott who asked "Is there room for quiet diplomacy?"
#Cultures #Democracy #Commonwealth #Activism #CommonwealthDiplomacy
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We're delighted to be co-hosting the 2-day event on Cultures of Democracy'
Day 1 has begun with opening remarks from Prof Sue Onslow and #ICwS Director Prof Kingsley Abbott who asked "Is there room for quiet diplomacy?"
#Cultures #Democracy #Commonwealth #Activism #CommonwealthDiplomacy
Day 1 has begun with opening remarks from Prof Sue Onslow and #ICwS Director Prof Kingsley Abbott who asked "Is there room for quiet diplomacy?"
#Cultures #Democracy #Commonwealth #Activism #CommonwealthDiplomacy
Our Cultures of Democracy conference is off to a wonderful start, thanks to Sue Onslow & Kingsley Abbott at @icws-sas.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Our Cultures of Democracy conference is off to a wonderful start, thanks to Sue Onslow & Kingsley Abbott at @icws-sas.bsky.social
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La merveilleuse @prescillia-dsv.bsky.social vous parle de Marie Denizard, première candidate aux élections présentielles en France en 1913
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Marie Denizard, de la présidentielle à l’asile : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Dès 1913, l’Amiénoise Marie Denizard s’est portée candidate à la présidentielle – bien avant l’obtention du droit d’éligibilité par les femmes en 1944. Grâce à une jeune historienne, cette précurseuse...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
La merveilleuse @prescillia-dsv.bsky.social vous parle de Marie Denizard, première candidate aux élections présentielles en France en 1913
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www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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My friend Henry Dee's new book "Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951" has just been published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Check it out here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Militant Migrants | Home
Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My friend Henry Dee's new book "Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951" has just been published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Check it out here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed
#histmed
Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives.
This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed
#histmed
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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.
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Accra Noir: ‘A Wreath for Udomo’ (Peter Abrahams, 1956)
A political thriller for a nation about to exist
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October 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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...
hwiccanreview.substack.com/p/accra-noir...
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Il est sorti! Co-édité avec Bastien Goursaud, ce n° sur la survivance des 80s contient un entretien avec @fionasampson.bsky.social qui balise 40 ans de poésie et 8 articles sur le concept de dérégulation mis en avant par Sean O'Brien en 95. Merci aux contributeurices!
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October 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Il est sorti! Co-édité avec Bastien Goursaud, ce n° sur la survivance des 80s contient un entretien avec @fionasampson.bsky.social qui balise 40 ans de poésie et 8 articles sur le concept de dérégulation mis en avant par Sean O'Brien en 95. Merci aux contributeurices!
revueties.org?lang=en
revueties.org?lang=en
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Dialogue avec @guillaumblanc.bsky.social autour de nos recherches sur les sources et l'histoire africaine
@cnrseditions.bsky.social
Dialogue avec @guillaumblanc.bsky.social autour de nos recherches sur les sources et l'histoire africaine
@cnrseditions.bsky.social
Elara Bertho et Guillaume Blanc - "Conakry, une utopie panafricaine" et "Empires"
YouTube video by librairie mollat
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October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Dialogue avec @guillaumblanc.bsky.social autour de nos recherches sur les sources et l'histoire africaine
@cnrseditions.bsky.social
Dialogue avec @guillaumblanc.bsky.social autour de nos recherches sur les sources et l'histoire africaine
@cnrseditions.bsky.social
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My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!
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We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
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Créé par des résistants des PTT, un réseau téléphonique parallèle a survécu après la Libération. Espace de communication et de rencontre dans les années 1970, il constitue le chaînon manquant entre les agences matrimoniales du XIX e siècle et nos applis contemporaines.
Le Réseau, ou lorsque nous étions intraçables
Créé par des résistants des PTT, un réseau téléphonique parallèle a survécu après la Libération. Espace de communication et de rencontre dans les années 1970, il constitue le chaînon manquant entre les agences matrimoniales du XIX e siècle et nos applis contemporaines.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Créé par des résistants des PTT, un réseau téléphonique parallèle a survécu après la Libération. Espace de communication et de rencontre dans les années 1970, il constitue le chaînon manquant entre les agences matrimoniales du XIX e siècle et nos applis contemporaines.
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Avec beaucoup trop de retard, un livre remarquable et tellement stimulant à signaler, "Ondes de choc: histoire médiatique et politique de la radio conservatrice aux Etats-Unis" de
@sebastienmort.bsky.social
(et tant d'écho avec le paysage médiatique français actuel...)
#àlire
@sebastienmort.bsky.social
(et tant d'écho avec le paysage médiatique français actuel...)
#àlire
October 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Avec beaucoup trop de retard, un livre remarquable et tellement stimulant à signaler, "Ondes de choc: histoire médiatique et politique de la radio conservatrice aux Etats-Unis" de
@sebastienmort.bsky.social
(et tant d'écho avec le paysage médiatique français actuel...)
#àlire
@sebastienmort.bsky.social
(et tant d'écho avec le paysage médiatique français actuel...)
#àlire
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For centuries, Western powers have sought to ‘fix’ African economies. Shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, Bronwen Everill's Africonomics traces how these interventions have repeatedly failed to deliver, and highlights Africa’s own approaches to economic life: https://bit.ly/47aBrcJ
October 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For centuries, Western powers have sought to ‘fix’ African economies. Shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, Bronwen Everill's Africonomics traces how these interventions have repeatedly failed to deliver, and highlights Africa’s own approaches to economic life: https://bit.ly/47aBrcJ
Thank you, Dan, for your review! And thanks again to our wonderful contributors, @byrnealice.bsky.social Lori Maguire, Adrien Rodd, Bent Boel, Christian Turner, @ameliahadfield1.bsky.social @thibaudharrois.bsky.social
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...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thank you, Dan, for your review! And thanks again to our wonderful contributors, @byrnealice.bsky.social Lori Maguire, Adrien Rodd, Bent Boel, Christian Turner, @ameliahadfield1.bsky.social @thibaudharrois.bsky.social
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The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...