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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 8d

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

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2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced

The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 2

There is a reason why history is at the heart of the culture wars. History is central to public consciousness and people care.

History seems to be thriving everywhere apart from in the spaces where historians are trained… #QMCBS

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 2

@robertsaunders.bsky.social rallying for the humane case for history: not reducing people to contributors to GDP, but the role of the informed citizens, seeing the world through other eyes, making the present strange. We need to be confident in that to change the narrative about history&UKHE #QMCBS

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 2

@riakapoor.bsky.social answering the prompt on to what extent academic history should be shaped by present concerns: notices that the issues that are discussed without nuance and with binary ideas in the public discourse were discussed brilliantly & with nuance at #QMCBS.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 2

Michelle Tusan: What happens to national histories when a country turns inwards? As someone flying in from the US, and recognising the value of continuing to collaborate and talk in person (even in ridiculously hot rooms…) #QMCBS

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · May 2

Thanks for this wonderful thread on our panel at @qmcbs.bsky.social’s British History Today conference, @onslies.bsky.social. #qmcbs

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 2

Panel on race, state, and the criminal justice system in Britain #QMCBS

Picture of a panel of speakers with a PowerPoint slide

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · May 2

Great 2nd day of @qmcbs.bsky.social British History Now conference. Starting with awesome panel inc Jean Smith, @freddyfoks.bsky.social and @historianhelen.bsky.social on emigration, race and Empire post 1945 - loved these pics from Helen of expat retirees in Europe #QMCBS 🗃️

Big screen showings photos of elderly white people dancing, keeping fit, out in countryside. Panel sitting below

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · May 2

Delighted to speak on Vote100 2018 celebrations and plans for equal franchise 2028 on panel on political history today - with @jhdavey.bsky.social @martinspychal.bsky.social William Pettigrew and brilliant presentation by Matthew Smith & Ayshah Johnston on Inclusive Histories project #QMCBS 🗃️

Big screen showing black and white document about SUS stop and search in 1980s, Ayshah speaking at side

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · May 2

Final plenary discussing purpose of British history today @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @robertsaunders.bsky.social @lottelydia.bsky.social @riakapoor.bsky.social and Michelle Tusan @thenacbs.bsky.social All v thought-provoking! #QMCBS 🗃️

Big screen showing Queen Mary University of London with panel sitting below

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 1

The *excitement*!! The fabulous @julialaite.bsky.social for the @rshc.bsky.social lecture on “British History from the Middle of Nowhere” 🤩 #QMCBS

Speaker in front of a massive slide on “British history from the middle of nowhere”

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · May 1

V interesting and thought-provoking 1st day of @qmcbs.bsky.social conference on British History Today. Great panel in packed room here on everyday and experience histories inc @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @ruthdav.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social #QMCBS 🗃️

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · May 1

Fantastic to round off an enriching first day of the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference with the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture by Julia Laite.

"British history from the middle of nowhere" - great title!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · May 1

Amazing keynote by @julialaite.bsky.social on 'British history from the middle of nowhere', exploring how Britain has 'off-shored' its complicity in colonial violence in Newfoundland and Canada. A barnstorming lecture, rooted in the precarity of the field and the academy. @qmcbs.bsky.social

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · May 1

I've found the Europeans @qmcbs.bsky.social... I'm in panel 1.2 ‘‘Sites of Fracture – Doing Environmental History at the Margins of Capitalism’. Speakers are focusing on Ireland with intriguing papers on rain, dairy & community campaigns

1.2 Location: Arts Two: 2.17
‘Sites of Fracture – Doing Environmental History at the Margins of Capitalism’
Erika Hanna, Mo Moulton, Kevin O’Sullivan
Chair: Matthew Kelly

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 1

Taking Over Enthusiastic Social Media Person privilege: hashtag #QMCBS? Yes, @qmcbs.bsky.social?

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · May 1

Very excited the @qmcbs.bsky.social fest is about to kick off! All the #SkyStorians in Mile End!

Very full lecture hall with panel of speakers at the front

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · May 1

At @qmcbs.bsky.social conference talking about the rash of British history edited collections being developed at the moment. @sarahcrook.bsky.social making the important point that what might look like 'vitality' in a field can perhaps better be understood as 'resilience'.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · May 1

I'm always interested in contemporary history as that within 'living memory' -- the way that it foregrounds the historian as a actor in the creation of that historical narrative, since 'living memory' is definitionally a subjective period, and what that means for a field @qmcbs.bsky.social

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · May 1

At the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference today feeling a tad guilty because apparently few early modernists put in and here I am not doing early modern stuff at all. Letting the side down.

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · Apr 30

Super excited that the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference, British History Today, is Happening Tomorrow! (and Friday). Here are the details of my panel:

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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Apr 24

There are a few places left for registration: projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/britis...

British History Today – Queen Mary Centre for British Studies

projects.history.qmul.ac.uk

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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Apr 24

Jst one week to go until British History Today: projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/britis...

British History Today – Queen Mary Centre for British Studies

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Apr 22

Look! LOOK! The purple has made its way over to our side! Possibly peaking a smidge too early, but still ready to be all pretty for the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference. Sign & make sure you sign up separately for the @rshc.bsky.social lecture projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/britis... #SkyStoriansn

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · Apr 12

I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Apr 4

Places for British History Today are filling up. Please do register - especially if you are on the programme! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-hi...

British History Today (1-2 May)

This is a two day ticket for the British History Today conference (1-2 May) organised by the Queen Mary Centre for British Studies.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Apr 3

Do come! registrations filling up much faster than expected. May of the questions are indeed familiar. The answers though, continue to change and evolve!

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