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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · Aug 27

Introducing Dr. Olivia Wyatt! I’m overjoyed to share that I successfully defended my thesis last Friday, and that I have started a new position as Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh. I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisors and examiners

From left to right: Kristy Warren, Olivia Wyatt, Bill Schwarz, Rob Waters

'If You're Brown, You Can Stick Around': Complexions in Black
Britain, 1920-85
Olivia Lauren Wyatt
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
This work was supported by the Queen Mary University of London Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Institute of Historical Research; and the North American Conference for British Studies

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Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social · Aug 6

Join YHP as we celebrate a decade since we formed as an organisation!

We will be at the Black Cultural Archives on September 20th, 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Tickets can be found here #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/each-one-t...

Each One Teach One: Celebrating 10 Years of the Young Historians Project

Come join us as we celebrate a decade of the Young Historians Project by sharing knowledge and learning from each other!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 12

'An advert for a 19th-century British slaver’s ship has been discovered in Liverpool, where a site formerly at the centre of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people is being transformed into a “contemplation space”, highlighting a long-hidden history.'

Liverpool black history researchers discover slaver ship advert from 1805

Ad, which states vessel can hold ‘about 185 slaves’, comes to light as city dock is being turned into ‘contemplation space’

www.theguardian.com

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Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last Saturday, members of YHP went to the event 'Painted with Care: Celebrating African Women in British Healthcare' at The Africa Centre, to commemorate our project: 'African Women in British Healthcare, 1930 - 2000'. #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿

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Medicinal plants from the Africa

The background motif is formed of medicinal plants located on the African continent. Great care was taken to research ensuring that plants from across the continent were selected. among the featured elements, the mangrove forests for their rich biodiversity evidenced by numerous varieties that could be located across the African continent as well as across the Caribbean. By incorporating mangroves into the mural, we honour the intertwined histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain and the broader context of pan - African politics.

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African Women in the British Health Sector

Through this project we were able to uncover the lives and experiences of African women who worked in the health sector in the UK between 1930 - 2000.

African women had a wide range of experiences within the NHS. Our documentary explores their childhood and migration stories, their training and careers in healthcare, and general facets of life in Britain as Black women.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · May 15

This is on Facebook, I scrolled for a bit and every single comment I saw, no exaggeration, was either "you liar, too many foreigners, vote Reform" or "you're meant to be the Labour Party what is this fash shit". There was nobody going "thank you, Sir Keir".

Keir Starmer: I've already returned over 24,000 people with no right to be here. And I won't stop there.

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Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social · May 3

#BLOGPOST: A couple of YHP members attended the memorial of Marika Sherwood on April 14th. @periuspb.bsky.social has written about the event in this new blogpost. #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿

www.younghistoriansproject.org/post/reflect...

Reflections on the memorial of Marika Sherwood

On the 14th April 2025, myself and a few other YHP members attended the memorial of a longtime friend of YHP, collaborator and pioneer Marika Sherwood. A stalwart advocate for the teaching of what we ...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 30

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · May 1

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

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Arista @aristaajidele.bsky.social · Apr 25

Congratulations Olivia! 🥳

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · Apr 25

History Lab is proud to announce the winner of this year's Olivette Otele Prize, Olivia Wyatt! 🏆🎉 Olivia's paper is titled "Black is Beautiful: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women's Movement".

Congratulations to Olivia who joins a long line of Olivette Otele Prize winners!✨

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Apr 20

stancil calls the idea that US racism influenced hitler a "buzzy and incorrect take" in the replies to this, but hitler literally wrote about being influenced by US immigration policy in mein kampf. like he just says it outright, it's not an inference or a guess or anything. he wrote it himself!

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Arista @aristaajidele.bsky.social · Apr 20

Somehow I have amassed 12 followers (including some pretty big names for some reason), which is about half of the followers I had on *that* website. So thank you.

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Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social · Apr 20

#OTD (20th April 1975): Today is the 50th Anniversary of founding of the Black Parents Movement (BPM). This organisation was established by black people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain to defend and advance the interests of the black population #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Apr 18

Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society.

Your Worth is Not Your Productivity

Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Apr 14

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · Apr 13

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · Apr 13

There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Apr 11

they are busy insider trading

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · Apr 11

The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it.

He is not exempt from the law.

Where the fuck is Congress?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 30

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.

It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 28

UPDATE: Alireza Doroudi — an Iranian University of Alabama engineering PhD student detained by ICE yesterday — is being held in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana.

The same place Mahmoud Khalil was taken to.

His lawyer & student activists say Doroudi was not involved in protests.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Mar 28

New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).”

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Foreign Students

Ideological purge of foreign students revealed in new leaked directive

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 26

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.

What would you call that?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 26

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.

1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.

A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine

“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 26

Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.

Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.

Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.

Press release about a new boycott of Columbia

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Mar 25

you often see partisan political cheerleading compared to sports, but most sports fans i've met usually have some opinions about the tactics of their favorite team, or are even willing to criticize the management when they make bad calls. political cheerleaders are less sophisticated than that

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 24

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."

- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

23 and he knew to leave a death note.

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This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message :
"If you're reading this, it means I have been killed
-most likely targeted-by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old-a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents
-anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza.
Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."
- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

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