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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος)
@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
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Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Jul 11
Catch the talk that Mike Hajimichael and I gave at the AAEH in Auckland on 10 July titled 'Colonialism, EOKA and Ochlocracy in British Cyprus: The Mob Killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlte...
Professors Varnava and Hajimichael talk on the mob killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958 by EOKA.
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Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social · 3d
Check out Tanja Bueltmann's review of our recent volume on Forced Migration with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1080/0261...

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Forced migration: exiles and refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 6d
The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

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The Anti-Reparations Bible
Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 7d
I've started developing this essay into an article on Zionism and Enotism... Already getting interesting. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
EOKA 70 Years On: Anti-Colonial or Colonialist? Liberation or Subjugation?
70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy. Most Greek Cypriots and Greeks believe in wh...
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 21d
Hopefully another one covering 1960-1980 coming soon
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 21d
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 21d
Just reupping this new article that me and @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social published last week
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 26d
Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'

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Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s by Evan Smith & Andrekos Varnava Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s, changes in the international situation, such as decolonization in Asia, led some Australians to question the usefulness of keeping the ‘White Australia Policy’, the basis for the country’s immigration system since Federation in 1901. Some argued that Australia’s international reputation, especially with newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, could be harmed by the maintenance of this policy. Events such as the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960 caused further introspection into Australia’s racialized system. However, as pushes to reform the policy grew, others used international events to resist reforms. Using speeches by politicians and documents produced by policymakers, this article will show how events, such as the Notting Hill riots in Britain, the Little Rock controversy in the United States, and the Sharpeville massacre, were used as warnings about Australia potentially introducing similar ‘racial problems’ if it allowed more non-white migration. This article argues that these concerns tapped into a transnational whiteness that shared anxieties about decolonization, civil rights and non-white immigration in the post-war period, bringing a racialized solidarity forged at the turn of the twentieth century into the Cold War era.
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 24d
my version of Lilywhite by Yusuf Cat Stevens www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjFF...
Cover of 'Lilywhite', by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, from Mona Bone Jakon (1970)
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 26d
Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'

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Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s by Evan Smith & Andrekos Varnava Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s, changes in the international situation, such as decolonization in Asia, led some Australians to question the usefulness of keeping the ‘White Australia Policy’, the basis for the country’s immigration system since Federation in 1901. Some argued that Australia’s international reputation, especially with newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, could be harmed by the maintenance of this policy. Events such as the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960 caused further introspection into Australia’s racialized system. However, as pushes to reform the policy grew, others used international events to resist reforms. Using speeches by politicians and documents produced by policymakers, this article will show how events, such as the Notting Hill riots in Britain, the Little Rock controversy in the United States, and the Sharpeville massacre, were used as warnings about Australia potentially introducing similar ‘racial problems’ if it allowed more non-white migration. This article argues that these concerns tapped into a transnational whiteness that shared anxieties about decolonization, civil rights and non-white immigration in the post-war period, bringing a racialized solidarity forged at the turn of the twentieth century into the Cold War era.
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 26d
Read our new article!
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 26d
Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s by Evan Smith & Andrekos Varnava Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s, changes in the international situation, such as decolonization in Asia, led some Australians to question the usefulness of keeping the ‘White Australia Policy’, the basis for the country’s immigration system since Federation in 1901. Some argued that Australia’s international reputation, especially with newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, could be harmed by the maintenance of this policy. Events such as the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960 caused further introspection into Australia’s racialized system. However, as pushes to reform the policy grew, others used international events to resist reforms. Using speeches by politicians and documents produced by policymakers, this article will show how events, such as the Notting Hill riots in Britain, the Little Rock controversy in the United States, and the Sharpeville massacre, were used as warnings about Australia potentially introducing similar ‘racial problems’ if it allowed more non-white migration. This article argues that these concerns tapped into a transnational whiteness that shared anxieties about decolonization, civil rights and non-white immigration in the post-war period, bringing a racialized solidarity forged at the turn of the twentieth century into the Cold War era.
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · 26d
Great to have worked with you again!
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 27d
The first prizes will be awarded in Feb 2026 for articles published within the six issues of Vol 53, 2025.
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 27d
JICH will now award two annual prizes: The Stockwell-Burroughs Prize for Best Article; & the Murphy-Howe Prize for Best Postgrad Article.
Winners will be announced each Feb & receive £200 in book vouchers from @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Winning articles will become free access for 12 months.
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Sep 6
Check out the recent book review by Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social of 'Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters' edited by Efterpi Mitsi & Anna Despotopoulou (Routledge, 2025): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Aug 22
New book review by Darren Reid for @jich.bsky.social

"Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880: Decarbonising Imperial History", edited by Liz Conor

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Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790–1880: Decarbonising Imperial History
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Aug 20
Absolutely correct. It was always about killing the subjects, not the money.

Because Humanities programs pay for themselves, unlike STEM etc.

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They’re Killing the Humanities On Purpose
The crisis is not one of resources but of values.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 14
When politicians start policing history, you're firmly in the realms of autocracy.

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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Aug 2
My talk covering this article can be see here www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qMN...
The Cigarette Industry, Smoking and Anti-Smoking in Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus, 1920-1980
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Aug 1
New article hot off the press www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Origins of “Big Tobacco” Cigarette Manufacturing and the Prevalence of Smoking in Colonial Cyprus, 1920-1960 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Origins of “Big Tobacco” Cigarette Manufacturing and the Prevalence of Smoking in Colonial Cyprus, 1920-1960
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Jul 31
The new Google Scholar metrics have @jich.bsky.social ranked in the top 20 history journals! @yiannicart.bsky.social,
@evansmithhist.bsky.social, @jonasgjerso.bsky.social scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jul 25
Historians will enjoy this one
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The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 25
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information wit...
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jul 26
New book review published in @jich.bsky.social

@katieebarclay.bsky.social reviews 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism' by Catherine Hall

@universitypress.cambridge.org

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Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Jul 17
Hot off the press! See the article: 'Missing the Bolt from the Blue: British Intelligence and the Third Anglo-Afghan War of 1919' by Travis Kaiser Weinger: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Missing the Bolt from the Blue: British Intelligence and the Third Anglo-Afghan War of 1919
This paper explores how the colonial intelligence system operated on British India’s north-west frontier during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Coming off of its successes during th...
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Jul 14
‘…I have not seen such a lack of vision, such a vacuum of ideas, such general disorganisation, nor such cavalier decision-making about institutions and programs built up through hard work over decades’ - Prof Frank Bongiorno (national treasure) on ANU cuts www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901516...
'Lack of vision', 'vacuum of ideas', 'disorganisation' accusation against ANU
Prominent professor tears into leadership at his own university
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jul 14
Looking for any scholarly stuff on the demographic composition of contemporary Australian extreme right. Like gender, age, class, geography, etc
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Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social · Jul 11
Catch the talk that Mike Hajimichael and I gave at the AAEH in Auckland on 10 July titled 'Colonialism, EOKA and Ochlocracy in British Cyprus: The Mob Killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlte...
Professors Varnava and Hajimichael talk on the mob killing of Savvas Menikos in 1958 by EOKA.
YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava
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