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Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social · 18h

I can heartily recommend Laura's brilliant new article - innovative, creative and hopeful!

Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 5d

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks mate! ✊💕

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 2d

This will be great!!

Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 2d

On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
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Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning

This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 5d

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 13d

I'd love to!

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 13d

Joel & I talking to Chris Browne about friendship, reimagining the world, & fighting the far right

Radicals in Conversation 📻
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 15d

NEXT WEEK! Come and hear @samwetherell.bsky.social and me chat about radical pasts & radical futures💥

Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Myself and the amazing @lauracforster.bsky.social are doing a joint event to launch our books in York. Come to learn about Liverpool, the aftershocks of the Paris Commune and the new kinds of histories our present crisis demands! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

When and where was Britain’s radical tradition?

A discussion explores Britain’s radical politics through global, anti-colonial, and transnational networks, launching two books rethinking history’s local myths.

www.york.ac.uk

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 18d

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CMVM Postdocs and Early Career Researchers @cmvm-res.bsky.social · 19d

Well done to Danai for winning Contributions to Citizenship! Such an important part of working in academia - great work! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Myself and the amazing @lauracforster.bsky.social are doing a joint event to launch our books in York. Come to learn about Liverpool, the aftershocks of the Paris Commune and the new kinds of histories our present crisis demands! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

When and where was Britain’s radical tradition?

A discussion explores Britain’s radical politics through global, anti-colonial, and transnational networks, launching two books rethinking history’s local myths.

www.york.ac.uk

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 20

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social

www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

The experiences of Communard refugees in Britain and Ireland

In 1886, Paschal Grousset, once a member of the executive committee of the Paris Commune, found himself troubled by Victorian Dublin’s food options.

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Aug 21

All historians should read this jaw dropping interview as a case study in moral and political decrepitude. Evidence if any more were needed that the accrual of massive amounts of evidence about the past does not automatically engender a critical reflection on the present.

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks Stuart!

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Paris Commune in Britain reviewed in the TLS by the wonderful @mauricejcasey.com

Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Aug 20

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social

www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

The experiences of Communard refugees in Britain and Ireland

In 1886, Paschal Grousset, once a member of the executive committee of the Paris Commune, found himself troubled by Victorian Dublin’s food options.

www.the-tls.com

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Alexia! ✊ Hope all is well with you!

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 17

“A thoughtful, collaborative mediation on the often-thorny ways that friendship intersects with the political”

@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common:
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Laura C. Forster and Joel White on new book Friends in Common: The Skinny

We chat with Laura C. Forster and Joel White about their book Friends in Common, the intersection between friendship and organising, and why our intimate lives are political.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 13

⚡️TODAY⚡️

@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak at Lighthouse for @edfringe.bsky.social 2025!

🗓️Wed, Aug 13
⏰1 pm
📍@Lighthousebks
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Lighthouse | Friends In Common: Forster & White on Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 6

⚡️BOOK EVENT⚡️

@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak at Lighthouse for @edfringe.bsky.social 2025!

🗓️Wed, Aug 13
⏰1 pm
📍@Lighthousebks
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Lighthouse | Friends In Common: Forster & White on Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · Jul 30

"When we do affinity politics, when we work non-hierarchically, it’s all about friendship"

@lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social discuss their book Friends in Common – out now on @plutopress.bsky.social

Laura C. Forster and Joel White on new book Friends in Common: The Skinny

We chat with Laura C. Forster and Joel White about their book Friends in Common, the intersection between friendship and organising, and why our intimate lives are political.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.

It is not a threat.

It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · Jul 29

And at @lighthousebks.bsky.social on Wednesday 13th August lighthousebookshop.com/events/frien...

Lighthouse | Friends In Common: Forster & White on Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities

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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you've missed us so far you can catch us at The NewBridge Project in Newcastle on Thursday 31st July: thenewbridgeproject.com/events/frien...

Friends in Common - The NewBridge Project

Tickets The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities. Frie...

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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · Jul 29

substack.com/home/post/p-... Friends in Common on tour! Thanks so much to the Lubberfiend, @thebookishtype.bsky.social, the CCA, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social, @1in12club.bsky.social, Nan Moor's, @junobooks.bsky.social & East Bristol Books for having us!

Notes from the road

A book tour, some songs, some lists.

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Jul 1

⚡️TODAY⚡️

Housmans welcomes @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social to the shop for a discussion of their wonderful, exhilarating book on the radical potential of friendship!

🗓️Tues, July 1
⏰7 pm
📍Housmans Bookshop
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BOOK TALK: Friends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel White

Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Laura C. Forster and Joel White to the shop for a dicussion of their wonderful, exhilarting book on the radical potential of friendship! Friendship is full of…

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