Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
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Refuge Stories of war (and love)
I have just finished … 📖
‘refuge
stories of war (and love)’
By @profsunnysingh.bsky.social
… and what an incredibly powerful and thought provoking read it has been.
If you are looking for your next book, make it this one. It will stay with you.
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Signed copies @stanfordstravel.bsky.social 🖋️📚
Hi! And no worries! As you can see, I drop in and out atm. Can only really manage one platform at a time 😂
Kemi Badenoch calls for national inquiry into 'grooming gangs scandal' The Conservative Party leader made the call in a post on social media site X
Who is going to break the news to Badenoch there has already been quite a detailed review of grooming gangs carried out by the Home Office?
It found, proportionally, the main group responsible were white, British, men. Something which was then ignored in favour of using the term to stoke division.
Between all these ‘never before’
a tree will grow and glow
like never before.
#KeepTellingofGaza
Brown guy with an MBA, a successful career & many years in the military commits an attack, it's portrayed by racist reporters as the looming threat of jihad.
White military guy commits an attack, and it's "poor dear, he had such a promising future, maybe he was struggling with his emotions."
Reporting on grooming gangs tends to focus on minorities, however, as Home Office's own report showed, offenders are far more likely to be white, British. This isn't an immigration issue. Playing to racist tropes means majority of perpetrators are ignored. 1/ #r4today
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Male violence against women and girls is the issue; doesn’t matter what race, creed or colour.
What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Unless you’re Palestinian or uncovering war crimes and corruption by allied nations.
I think about this periodically:
A very closeup picture of moss in between bricks in a sidewalk.
Moss is pretty
Thomas Sankara (b. 21 Dec 1949) stood up to Senghor when the latter challenged him on changing the name Upper Volta to Burkina Faso.
Sankara: We aren't French. We are African & it will be Burkina Faso!
Btw the best cotton isn't Indian or Egyptian, it's from Mali & Burkina Faso.
Introducing #TheDoctorPod, a podcast bringing you the voices of doctors, for doctors.
In our first episode, we hear from drrageshri.bsky.social about the ways doctors and patients can be silenced in medicine – and what we can do about it.
Follow and listen now: thedoctor.bma.org.uk/podcast
The Three Wisemen, the Three Kings, the Magi... who were they?
In our newest episode, we explore the true history behind the visitors from the East who brought gifts to the Nativity.
And it has more connections to empire than you may expect...
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New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social
We are proud to present the first episode of our Christmas mini-series-
WHO WERE THE THREE WISE MEN?
Professor Lucy Noakes, President of the Royal Historical Society, gives her Presidential Lecture on 22 November 2024 on taking up the Presidency of the Society. Lucy delivers her lecture before an image of Professor Jinty Nelson, a former President, who died in October and was remembered at the event.
The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to be here, from today, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social We look forward to engaging with you to support and promote History and historians together.
The Society is led by Prof Lucy Noakes, who began her Presidency of the RHS on 22 November royalhistsoc.org
Society for Renaissance Studies Conference 2025: 'Interconnections', 2-5 July 2025 Phoenix logo above an image depicting the 'North West Prospect of the City of Bristol' in the early modern period.
👀 OUR SEMINAR SIGN-UP IS LIVE!!! We've six scintillating seminars happening at #RenSoc25! To find out more & to sign up before 22 January 2025, see: www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...
#SRSlyGood Seminars require pre-circulating a paper & participating in perspicacious conversation at the conference!
Oooo look, my colleagues Semih Çelik & Naya Tsentourou are leading a seminar!
“The air choked with fens”: Socio-ecologies of breathing and air in early modern cross-cultural encounters"
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Who’s going to sign up for “Sound and the Senses” with @spparkle.bsky.social and me?
Go on, you know you want to!
@sashasmith.bsky.social @scl1979.bsky.social and @missrcarter89.bsky.social already have units online, but these will be added to the Padlet in the near future. You can find out more about their work in spotlights here: curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2024/06/28/s... /5
Finally, we have just launched our PATHfinders project to connect teachers with the latest sources and research. This time we are collaborating with @britishlibrary.bsky.social to refresh your teaching of Britain and India 1600-1947 curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2024/11/19/p... /6
The way academia takes the work, knowledge and contributions of Black women and then erase them with no acknowledgement of their work, especially when their work influences system change is a problem that needs to be addressed.
No. White supremacy does not require white people. It functions often in the absence of whites. I look at the Caribbean and see this devastating fact every day.
Reproducing my viral thread from Twitter on why we should stop using the term "sub-Saharan Africa"
Academics routinely use this term. For many years, I also used it without really thinking much about it or questioning its use. But it’s problematic and should be avoided. Here are the reasons:
