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Freddy Foks
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'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16d
How can trans history facilitate knowledge and solidarity beyond the 'existence' of trans people?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo argues for trans history as a tool of political education, through the history of access to healthcare:
Imagining Trans Futures
Sam Rutherford reflects on how trans histories and historians can work towards building power in the trans community.
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 20d
Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

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Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Aug 8
And you can now read the (just published) book for free on the @uolpress.bsky.social website uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... !
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jul 25
A wide-ranging and polemical review of some recent Big Books in British studies: Stern’s Empire inc and Berg and Hudson Slavery, Capitalism. Surprised it hasn’t got more comment here tbh
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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social · May 23
📢New article out now in JBS!

📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire - Volume 64
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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · Jul 22
We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jul 15
you can find the contents of the book here and a very nice pre-pub review of it by Amanda Vickery: uolpress.co.uk/book/democra...
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jul 15
We'll be launching a book inspired by Peter's research on 26th September in Cambridge. Sign up for tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/democratis...

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Jul 7
Award-winning poet & memoirist Hannah Lowe will be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Creighton Lecture (not a lecture!) 2025, Tues 9 September. She’ll be joining me to discuss ‘Doing #History through #Poetry’, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. Book your place: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Hannah Lowe A Selection of Hannah Lowe's books, which include Chick (2013), Chan (2016), The Kids (winner of the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book Award, 2021), The Neighbourhood (2019). Her memoir Long Time No See: A Memoir of Fathers, Daughters and Games of Chance (2015) featured on Radio 4’s Book of the Week.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · Jul 2
Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.
Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Jul 1
It's Tuesday. You're dragging yourself through the world, one cup of coffee at a time. Can nothing liven up this day?

How 'bout a thread of eel ships on maps? These maps are what got me into eels in the first place!

"Cool!" you say. "But wait...what's an eel ship?"

Well...
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Two eel ships on the Thames, between Paulus Warfe and Qeen Hythe, from Hollar's 1647 "Long View of London." You know they're the eel ships because they're labeled "the Eel Ships." This is a rather long thread, and so the alt-text will be greatly diminished today. It takes a while to write narrative alt-text, and I don't have it in me to do a 14-post thread. I'd have to plan ahead for that, and I certainly am not that guy.
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 30
Huge numbers of Italians for eg
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 30
The closest thing I can think of to some extensive research is in Kathleen Paul’s Whitewashing- but that focused on EVWs.., like so much else
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 30
There’s masses of civil service paperwork in well trodden Dominions Office/CRO files worrying about easier access for ‘aliens’ than commonwealth citizens post 62… but I haven’t ever seen a study of HO in 40s/50s and the unpicking of the *very hostile ‘aliens’ policies put in place post 1920
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 30
Because the changes in policy are so striking from the era Louise London in describes in the 30s to the 50s -73
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 30
Is there any extensive historical research on post-1945 ‘aliens’ (specifically European) immigration policy? Lots on DPs / EVWs (of course) but how about non-gov sponsored?
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Jun 26
The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility"

by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh

Is now out in full and free to access

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Immobility
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 22
Heres something i wrote about migration and shipping in the ‘windrush’ years www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 22
And a reminder that we celebrate the contributions of the citizens and subjects who came to the U.K. from the Caribbean after WW2 *despite the actions of the govt, not because they were welcomed or invited
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 22
For anyone who wants to understand a bit more about the dynamics of migrant shipping in these years
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · Jun 22
On the same day that the Empire Windrush arrived, the Carnarvon Castle departed Southampton with migrants leaving Britain for South Africa and Australia.
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · Jun 14
www.nyrb.com/products/my-... worth a read? Can’t remember any wild animal befriending in it- but read ages ago
My Father and Myself
When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest ac...
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Lyndsey Jenkins @teadevotee.bsky.social · Jun 12
Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged
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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Jun 11
A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.

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‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · May 22
Always been struck that U.K. deployed army for decades abroad at huge cost, ran down supplies and degraded capacities and seems missing from discussion of pol econ of 2001-21
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · May 22
Is there any research on the borrowing/budgetary/fiscal impact of Afghanistan and Iraq wars? Can’t find any U.K. equivalent to US ‘costs of war’ project watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/f...
U.S. Budgetary Costs of Post-9/11 Wars Through FY2022: $8 Trillion | Figures | Costs of War
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate ab...
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Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social · May 9
Definitely!