Peter Gatrell
@pwgatrell.bsky.social
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Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · 17d
Great stuff but how about some history? Just for starters … Becky Taylor, Louise London, Tony Kushner and Katharine Knox, etc. etc.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17d
Books I read while writing mine. If you're interested in small boats, migration, refugees, UK immigration and asylum, I'd recommend all of these. Anything to add?
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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 22d
We bring together contributions on the European civil wars by Kimberly A. Lowe, @nathan-rousselot.bsky.social, Lia Brazil, Anna Lively, Alba Martínez, Mercedes Yusta, @panoskaragkounis.bsky.social, @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social @pwgatrell.bsky.social and John Horne. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · 23d
Just catching up with his reminiscences from March 2024 on YouTube - then still going strong at the age of 92. A scholar of enormous range. I’ll always be indebted to Al for his advice and support.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 24d
RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · 24d
Joan Wallach Scott saying what needs to be said
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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 25d
Over the last year, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Joan Scott. It was clear how much the experience of her father -- victim of McCarthyism -- shaped her as a scholar and person. This essay is a powerful testament to that.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · 26d
Great topic, great scholar too!
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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · 26d
📢New ESRC project

HCRI's Dr Antoine Burgard will lead “Who is a child? Determining age in British & French border policing, 1918–present” (2025–28).

The project explores how age shapes migration laws, policies & experiences.
Who is a child? Determining age in British and French border policing, 1918 to the present | Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute | The University of Manchester
www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28d
From spy planes to satellites, archaeology has long shared a sky with empire. What does that mean for the knowledge it produces?

Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.
The Bomber's View of the Past
Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.
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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · Sep 9
Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949
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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · Sep 6
As a previous recipient of a BA small grant, I'd encourage eligible people to apply. It's possible to get a lot of research value in <£10K. (In my case experimentation with different digital skills pedagogy through hosting a number of open workshops, which influenced a bunch of publications.)
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Sep 2
The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.

Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 30
📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with the History Workshop logo and a title which reads ‘Can you help us?’ Underneath the title some text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 31
Gorgeous Navajo rugs on display at the American Museum in Bath
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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Aug 31
If only our media talked about the negative effects on society of tax avoidance
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 31
“Five (others) were detected and sent back on the vessel, another five were still at large”. A reminder perhaps to question the oft-asserted line about the UK’s “proud tradition of welcome” to refugees…
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 31
“Refugees are pouring into this country in this way” said a prosecutor who secured a conviction for five Dutch seamen “for aiding and abetting a Viennese refugee to land from a motor vessel”. The judge said “it is common knowledge that this practice has become rife”. The Guardian, 24 July 1939.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 28
‘In the final months of the Sunak government, the number of crossings continued to increase. But not because the “hostile environment” was insufficiently hostile.’

Georgie Newson on why the UK’s latest ‘one in, one out’ policy won’t work, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Georgie Newson | ‘One in, one out’
When it was revealed earlier this month that the number of people who had reached the UK on small boats since Labour...
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Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 27
Fantastic achievement Sadiah - so pleased for you!
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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Aug 27
Absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal by the @royalsociety.org for my research on science, race, and empire, including my book Vanished. An enormous thanks to everybody who made this possible, especially the Royal Society.
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Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture | Royal Society
This prize lecture is given on a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science.
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Laura Hammond @laurahammond.bsky.social · Aug 20
Great and timely piece by my colleagues Giorgia Dóna, Charlotte Sanders & Paolo Novak: As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives? #migration #asylumseekerhousing #immigration theconversation.com/as-protester...
As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives?
Long-term use of hotels poses numerous challenges to those living there.
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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · Aug 10
The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532.

The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.

The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 31
🌍 Two new edited volumes featuring HCRI's Prof. Bertrand Taithe are set to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🧵 Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade.
💉 Medical Care and Intimacy in the Long Second World War, 1931–1953.

🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press is known globally as a publisher of Humanities and Social Sciences research. We currently publish over 170 books each year, as well as seven journals.
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Jul 24
📘New issue out now!

Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at)

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🗃️ 20thc
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 22
In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...
New Academy President urges Prime Minister to strengthen and champion UK’s world-leading universities as higher education crisis deepens
In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education sy...
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Jul 22
it is uncontroversial but essential to point out that these “people smuggling gangs” are a creation of deliberate govt policies that destroyed all safe legal routes to asylum
Picture shows an overloaded black inflatable boat, with many people perched on it in the water. Underneath the headline reads “Gang leaders and fake passport dealers to be named in smuggling sanctions The government says individuals throughout the networks smuggling people into the UK will be targeted.”
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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · Jul 18
Wonderful news this morning that @clairelanghamer.bsky.social the director of @ihr.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Warmest congratulations to Claire! www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
Professor Claire Langhamer confirmed as new British Academy Fellow
IHR Professor Claire Langhamer has been appointed a British Academy Fellow
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Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social · Jul 16
New article by @pwgatrell.bsky.social Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975
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Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · Jul 15
WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️
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Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History
We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History, you will be required to make a significant contributio...
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