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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 1d

Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for this event with Edgar Taylor on the Ugandan Archives:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-a...

Archival Ambivalence: Labour and Status in Ugandan Archives

A study of labour and status in the history of the Uganda National Archives

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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AIU RACE Centre @aiucentre.bsky.social · 7d

We’re excited to be part of Sanctuary, Now and Then ✨
asylum, migrant rights & anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s
📅 7 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12–3pm
📍 Manchester Central Library
Speakers include Stuart Crosthwaite, Amy Grant, Rachel Humphris & Paul Weller.
🎟️ Free – register here: shorturl.at/FZ6Nd

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 6d

Join us to hear a core participant in the #spycops Inquiry speak about his work.
Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982: Subversives Under the Lens
6.00pm, 15 October, London WC1E 7JL
Book here UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social

Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982: Subversives Under the Lens

Chris Brian (Undercover Research Group) will talk about his chapter in the new book

UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 8d

Archives, memory, representation & empowerment - and the gaps in the records...

We really enjoyed taking part in this event at @rshc.bsky.social, sharing stories around labour movement collections & records of resistance - from the MRC's origins to the NUM archives via the Spanish Civil War & Chile

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 8d

So lovely to have a record of these exciting talks! Thanks again for hosting the conversation @rshc.bsky.social, and for such wonderful contributions, @kabcommons.bsky.social, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust, @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social and @worsted.bsky.social! #SkyStorians #YayArchives!

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 8d

Such a privilege to be part of this amazing roundtable, organised by @onslies.bsky.social at @rshc.bsky.social. So pleased that the conversation can be shared more widely (less pleased about my wobbly voice)

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 23d

Spycops
Undercover Policing of the Left 1968-1982:
Subversives Under the Lens
Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group talks about his chapter in their new book
6.00pm, 15 October, London WC1E 7JL
Book here UndercoverPolicingLeft.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social

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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Seminar series (online, too) on Migration and Mobility History by @ihr.bsky.social. #MigHist: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Migration and Mobility History

The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · Jun 11

Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: a book launch
19 June 6pm London WC1E
Join us to discuss West Indian anti-colonialist Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
Speakers: Catherine Hall, Peter Hulme, Leslie James, Kesewa John
Book here RedBlackHarlemJamaica.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk

Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: A book launch

Book launch for edited works of Wilfred Adolphus Domingo

RedBlackHarlemJamaica.eventbrite.co.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · Jun 4

TOMORROW: Teaching Migration History in an Age of Border Restriction
5/6/25, 6pm, London WC1E
An international panel of migration historians discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context.
teachmighist.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk

Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction

A roundtable to discuss teaching migration

TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 29

Teaching Migration History in an Age of Border Restriction
5 June, 6pm, London WC1E
This roundtable brings together an international panel of migration historians to discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context.
TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk

Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction

A roundtable to discuss teaching migration

TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 21

How should we teach migration history in an era of ever-increasing global border restrictions?
Join us on 5 June at 6pm, London WC1E, followed by a wine reception
Free to book here TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk
@qmpoliticsir.bsky

Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction

A roundtable to discuss teaching migration

TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 20

Did the British republican tradition endure through the Cold War?
'Reassessing E. P. Thompson’s Political Thought: The Case for Radical Republicanism'
6 June, 3.00pm, London WC1E
EPThompson.eventbrite.co.uk
@mileendinstitute.bsky.social
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk
@qmpoliticsir.bsky

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 15

Join us for Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: a book launch
19 June 6pm, London WC1E 7JL
Book here (RedBlackHarlemJamaica.eventbrite.co.uk)
Hear about the life and work of West Indian anti-colonialist Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk

Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica: A book launch

Book launch for edited works of Wilfred Adolphus Domingo

RedBlackHarlemJamaica.eventbrite.co.uk

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · May 15

This Monday! I'll be talking about how migrants seeking protection creatively use paperwork to make moral claims to rights - in Britain today and 16thC England. Does a lack of rights limit the impact of paperwork? And how can we use of paperwork recentre migrants in histories of protection?

Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 12

Only a week to go!
Changing The Record, 19 May, London
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
@kabcommons.bsky.social
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@worsted.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk
@onslies.bsky.social
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 12

Only a week to go!
Changing The Record, 19 May, London
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
@kabcommons.bsky.social
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@worsted.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk
@onslies.bsky.social
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.ac.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 8

Changing the Record: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19/5/25
www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@onslies.bsky.social
@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
@kabcommons.bsky.social
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@worsted.bsky.social

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 8

'Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction'
Join us to discuss the future of this rich and growing field in a highly volatile political context

TeachMigHist.eventbrite.co.uk

Thursday 5 June, 6pm, London WC1E
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · May 6

Come by for this Raph Sam event on archives - organised by @onslies.bsky.social and featuring an all star cast!

Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · Apr 29

Changing the Record
The power of paperwork: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, London WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@qmul.ac.uk
@onslies.bsky.social
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · May 6

Our roundtable brings together scholars, activists and archivists to think about the way people navigate bureaucracies and paperwork to shape their world.
19 May, Changing the Record, London WC1
www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@migrationmuseum.org
@sslh.bsky.social

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · Apr 29

Changing the Record.
How do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
@kabcommons.bsky.social
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@worsted.bsky.social

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · Apr 29

Changing the Record
The power of paperwork: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it?
19 May, 6pm, London WC1E
Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk
@qmul.ac.uk
@onslies.bsky.social
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Ruth Beecher @ruthbeecher.bsky.social · Apr 28

@bbkhistorical.bsky.social @rshc.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social

Ruth Beecher @ruthbeecher.bsky.social · Apr 28

Only 54 hrs 59 mins before the wonderful Professor Sameena Mulla gives what will be an enlightening and empathetic public lecture in London about race, racism, mothers, the family, violence and the US court system. Book a free ticket here. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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