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Matt Graham
@sahistorymatt.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee. Come for the African history, stay for sporting enthusiasm, music, travel talk & musings on South Africa
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Global Solidarity Activism network @globalsolidarity.bsky.social · Jun 10
25 participants from around the world are on their way to Malmö for the second Global Solidarity Network Workshop, which starts tomorrow. We'll spend two days finding connections - across themes, sources, groups and individuals - from Australia and Argentina to Thailand and Zimbabwe.
The programme for day 1 at the workshop - please contact emma.lundin@mau.se for a machine readable version. The programme for day 1 at the workshop - please contact emma.lundin@mau.se for a machine readable version.
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Lazlo Passemiers @lazlo-passemiers.bsky.social · Mar 19
My biographical article on anti-apartheid activist Nana Mahomo has finally been published. I really enjoyed researching and writing this article. If you are curious about Mahomo's contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle, click here: upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/hi...
View of ‘Primarily, I want to be an instrument of change’: Nana Mahomo’s Contribution to the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · Feb 21
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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Matt Graham @sahistorymatt.bsky.social · Dec 20
Thanks very much!
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Matt Graham @sahistorymatt.bsky.social · Dec 20
It is a nice way to finish the semester / the year of research to see my article on the Welsh Anti-Apartheid Movement now published. It identifies how cultural and national factors specific to Wales shaped the different forms of activism during the 1980s.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Anti-apartheid with a Welsh flavour’: national cultures, organisational autonomy, and the Welsh anti-apartheid movement
This article enhances our understanding of how national considerations shaped and bounded forms of transnational activism. The existing anti-apartheid scholarship acknowledges that activist respons...
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Matt Graham @sahistorymatt.bsky.social · Nov 18
A summary blog of Chris Fevre's and myself latest article in JSAS on the grassroots elements of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Nov 16
How can you motivate people to care about problems far away?

The British Anti-Apartheid Movement managed to achieve it by refracting the injustices #apartheid #SouthAfrica into a highly localised grassroots cause, writes @sahistorymatt.bsky.social
Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Movement thought globally and acted locally
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement managed to refract the injustices of apartheid South Africa into a highly localised grassroots cause
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Matt Graham @sahistorymatt.bsky.social · Mar 28
Once again, I'm delighted by the initial outcomes from my history class Wikipedia project. The students got loads out of it, they made some significant page additions, and had an incredible reach for their work. Over 156k views in less than a week!
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Wikipedia project outcomes. 156k total page views
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