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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 15h

Looking forward to talking about my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918" in the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire on 7 May 2026 in Paris. Thanks to @johnerik-h.bsky.social for the invitation. sfbh.hypotheses.org

Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire | Actualités du séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 15h

Looking forward to talking about my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918" in the Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire on 7 May 2026 in Paris. Thanks to @johnerik-h.bsky.social for the invitation. sfbh.hypotheses.org

Séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire | Actualités du séminaire franco-britannique d'histoire

sfbh.hypotheses.org

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 5d

The Secret Desi History blog is a lovely collection of random snippets of South Asian American history from the curators of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour www.secretdesihistory.com

Secret Desi History – Snippets of South Asian American history

www.secretdesihistory.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 2d

David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy site.unibo.it/sivenatura/i...

David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy

International Conference

site.unibo.it

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 4d

My old friend Lyn Innes' next book "Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain" looks splendid! www.lutterworth.com/product/fugi...

Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain - The Lutterworth Press

An insightful investigation of seven extraordinary lives, Fugitive Families is a fascinating portrait of the writers, speakers and activists who left the US under the Fugitive Slave Act and the Britis...

www.lutterworth.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 4d

Having corresponded with Anirvan Chatterjee, I'm delighted to see that the story of M.P.T. Acharya's brief sojourn in San Francisco in 1914 is part of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. www.secretdesihistory.com/mpt-acharya-...

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 4d

Having corresponded with Anirvan Chatterjee, I'm delighted to see that the story of M.P.T. Acharya's brief sojourn in San Francisco in 1914 is part of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. www.secretdesihistory.com/mpt-acharya-...

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 4d

My old friend Lyn Innes' next book "Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain" looks splendid! www.lutterworth.com/product/fugi...

Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain - The Lutterworth Press

An insightful investigation of seven extraordinary lives, Fugitive Families is a fascinating portrait of the writers, speakers and activists who left the US under the Fugitive Slave Act and the Britis...

www.lutterworth.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 5d

The Secret Desi History blog is a lovely collection of random snippets of South Asian American history from the curators of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour www.secretdesihistory.com

Secret Desi History – Snippets of South Asian American history

www.secretdesihistory.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 5d

Open house at the local mosque

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know what happened to the Indian Revolutionaries Abroad Commemoration Committee, set up by Lanka Sundaram in the early 1950s, but it would be exciting to read the memoirs and contributions of veteran exiled revolutionaries.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 5d

More images that didn't make it into my book. Group photos from India House in London circulated widely in British newspapers in the early twentieth century. These two are from 1907 (left) and 1908 (right).

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

5th International Conference of Anarchist Geographers and Geographies, São Paulo 9-12 December 2025. 5cigga.wordpress.com

Internacional de Geógrafxs e Geografias Anarquistas

Departamento de Geografia, FFLCH, USP, 9-12 dezembro 2025

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 6d

This touches on a dynamic I have thought about for a long time.

Where the postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right

Postcolonial theory, along with its younger cousin, decolonial theory, is providing fresh ammunition and pathways for the Hindu Right to seize on scholarly respectability for its views.

caravanmagazine.in

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism

www.history.ac.uk

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, “The No-State Solution “

www.panarchy.org/palestine/no...

Mohammed A. Bamyeh, The No-State Solution: Histories and Realities (2025)

www.panarchy.org

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 7d

Another image that didn't make it into the book is this of Bhupendranath Dutt from when he arrived in Athens from New York in 1915. Instead, I have his fake passport in the name of "Balthazar Dutt".

Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 8d

Despite not following the emergence of anarchism or meeting with any anarchists, the vision and actions of Periyar closely aligns with the principles of anarchism. www.youthkiawaaz.com/2022/09/anar...

“Oppression Is My Enemy: Anarchism In Periyar’s Work

Despite not following the emergence of anarchism or meeting with anarchists, the vision and actions of Periyar closely aligns with the principles of anarchism.

www.youthkiawaaz.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 9d

... and this group photo from a congress of Young Egyptians in Geneva in September 1909, which Lala Har Dayal, Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, and Chandu Lal attended. Seated at the centre is the veteran British socialist Keir Hardie.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 9d

... A lot of images didn't make it into the book, including this of Kunja Lal Bhattacharya and Basudev Bhattacharya, both of whom assaulted William Lee-Warner on the Pall Mall in London in January and February 1909.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 9d

The final manuscript for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918" has been approved by Liverpool UP, and now they need to clear the images....

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 10d

Got my hands on this little pamphlet “Revolutionary Tofu: Transnational Flows in the Making of Chinese Anarchism”, which includes a lost letter from Jacques Reclus to his estranged daughter Magali in China, found at a flea market in Berlin.

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Tidningen Arbetaren @arbetaren.bsky.social · 12d

Akademiker ryggar tillbaka inför etiketten ”anarkist”, medan ”marxist” ses som relativt oproblematiskt. Den framstående franska filosofen Catherine Malabou kritiserar sin egen disciplin. www.arbetaren.se/2025/09/26/a...

Anarkismens möjligheter och de tjuvaktiga filosoferna

Akademiker ryggar tillbaka inför etiketten ”anarkist”, medan ”marxist” ses som relativt oproblematiskt. Den framstående franska filosofen Catherine Malabou kritiserar sin egen disciplin.

www.arbetaren.se

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 11d

Wonderful talk by Tanaka Hikaru on transnational Japanese anarchism last night

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