Kathleen Commons
@kabcommons.bsky.social
Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar. Co-Director, Room to Heal, trustee @afrilcharity.bsky.social, Abigail Housing.
Congratulations!
December 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Congratulations!
My (unpublished) thesis goes back further, to 17thC law governing access to subjects' rights for migrants, if you want to go deep
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My (unpublished) thesis goes back further, to 17thC law governing access to subjects' rights for migrants, if you want to go deep
By carefully tracing longer histories of exclusion (& refugee challenges to this) we can provide a useful corrective to the notion that Britain has a "proud history of welcome", so often used by the govt to justify contemporary attacks on the concept of refuge.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
By carefully tracing longer histories of exclusion (& refugee challenges to this) we can provide a useful corrective to the notion that Britain has a "proud history of welcome", so often used by the govt to justify contemporary attacks on the concept of refuge.
papers on early modern US migration law @conniethomas.bsky.social, British Gypsies and Roma, refugees from apartheid, migrants in ancient Greece, work on churches and sanctuary & a @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social collaboration for ECRs and PhDs working on migration and mobility!
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
papers on early modern US migration law @conniethomas.bsky.social, British Gypsies and Roma, refugees from apartheid, migrants in ancient Greece, work on churches and sanctuary & a @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social collaboration for ECRs and PhDs working on migration and mobility!
Our next seminar will be with the wonderful Anne Irfan's paper on 'Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948' on 28 October. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... or join our mailing list: forms.gle/8JtLfYwH1MYL...
Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948
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October 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Our next seminar will be with the wonderful Anne Irfan's paper on 'Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948' on 28 October. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... or join our mailing list: forms.gle/8JtLfYwH1MYL...