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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 9d

Beforehand there will also be a range of Manchester archives showcasing material documenting the Pan African Congress - free event but book tickets here phm.org.uk/events_new/a...

Archives in Solidarity - People's History Museum

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 9d

This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...

What Peace? Whose Freedom? with Gary Younge - People's History Museum

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 24d

A brilliant first published journal article by Mohammed Khan, on an Indian Seamen’s Home in 1940s Liverpool - well worth a read! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 24d

A ‘wake up call’ seems right way of putting it for our side. Majority in London surely horrified at what just took place.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 24d

On the Tommy Robinson march… On the tram today and a man flicking through his Fb turns to his partner says ‘look Steve was on the march for common sense’, the tram passenger clicks ‘like’ and scrolls on. Huge potential for fascists to broaden and deepen their base further after yesterday

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ten to one on Burnham as next Labour leader, pretty good odds right now...

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks Catherine - be good to chat Henry :)

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · Jul 22

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live!

Visit southasianbritain.org

@qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is a brilliant history from below by @grsbrown.bsky.social. The ANL had a defining impact on the contours of racism and anti-racism and was that rare thing, a success, defeating the National Front. Now more than ever we need to return to this history bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/a-pe...

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jul 15

Important letter by Dr Joanna Gilmore and Prof Mead explaining what the restrictions on juries will mean www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...

Restrictions on jury trials will put real justice at risk | Letters

Letters: Dr Joanna Gilmore and Prof David Mead on Sir Brian Leveson’s proposals to help deal with a backlog in the criminal courts. Plus letters from former crown court judge Owen Davies KC and a sitt...

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thinking of Neil Davidson today and his untimely death. He was the best kind of academic, someone who hated the academy as an institution, who was so generous with his vast knowledge, who spent his time encouraging others to read and think. A working class intellectual and revolutionary.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

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VogonLaundromat @vogonlaundromat.bsky.social · Jun 29

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 24

Man Met Unison are an inspiration to us @manmetucu.bsky.social
They go again tomorrow and Thursday ✊🏽

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just one of the huge pickets in the pouring rain striking over low pay by our colleagues @unisonmmu.bsky.social

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · Jun 23

The historic Hotspur Press building on fire this afternoon, after the owners let it rot for years. (Son took the picture from the top floor of a nearby multi-storey car park)

Old cotton mill building completely on fire.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 17

Spent yesterday watching Zohran Mamdani speeches and then came across his father, Mahmood Mamdani's book on Ugandan Asians coming to Britain. A great read and just happens to be very useful for the article I'm writing!

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 11

Loved it. Beautifully shot, great characters and also some of those scenes meeting locals were perfectly selected by editors - today’s ep where the guy in India just casually brings up the British empire while he’s chatting to Brian and Melvin. And meeting namesake Clinton 🥰

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 9

I feel like every meeting needs to have the word Palestine uttered right now. Boring, bureaucratic meetings, still worth it, someone reminding us of the genocide. Palestine, Palestine, Palestine.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 9

That's it, marking all submitted. My teaching year all done since returning from mat leave with three little kids. First day thinking through research again.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 9

Emotional hearing the flotilla has been captured. And then reading the BBC report and the way they so casually repeat Israel's propaganda. It jars so much with the reality of what is happening.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jun 9

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 6

What a wonderful book launch and conversation with the brilliant @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social
Very pleased I now have my copy of Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Same :(

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · Jun 3

Would love to, will email!

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