To end the day, our plenary speaker Jan André Ludvigsen on ‘Looking back, looking forward: sport and politics in an ever-changing world’ #IHD23

Since the review on sport and diplomacy, 89 more journal articles! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… A lot to unpack and a lot going on 😄e.g.: @leogoretti SI tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/cur… Gavin Price / Imanol Galdos event uik.eus/en/activity/ch… My recap IHD veritypostlethwaite.com/2023/04/28/tri…

Following on from this, if you have a few minutes to spare, please complete this International Council for Sport Governance Survey - much appreciated! ljmu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/international-…

On this day in 1891, George Washington Williams died in Blackpool, UK. Williams was an US Civil War soldier, Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer who, in the late 1880s, turned his interest to Europe and Africa to connect larger stories of global racism.

AVAILABLE NOW! My piece for The International History Review Journal on British Council and #Iran in 1970s - shorturl.at/jnENW. I focus on the 1977 Festival of Britain - the factors driving the event, the exhibits, and organisers' approach. #ColdWar #softpower BIHG IHD Historians @ Bristol

Cool paper alert ⚠️ 📢 The evolution and emergence of fan activism by the great Jan André Ludvigsen and Mark Turner. Banging piece 👌

🚨NEW ISSUE OF The International History Review Journal PUBLISHED🚨 Looking at: ▶️🇬🇧policy to #Apartheid 🇿🇦 ▶️🇯🇵 as a non-nuclear weapon state ▶️🇦🇺 #ForeignPolicy under #GoughWhitlam ▶️🇬🇧consul in Iran during the #70s ▶️And much more... 🔗tandfonline.com/toc/rinh20/46/1 #OpenAccess Darius Wainwright

Time for the book launch for Dan Feather new book hosted at LJMU History. Introduction provided by the always wonderful Prof Nick White

Delighted that my article exploring the role of race (and racism) in the US relationship with the #CongoFreeState & subsequent ‘humanitarian’ reform movement is now available as first view with Journal of American Studies. Check it out here cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out this opinion piece from our own Dan Feather on ‘Secession in the air in the Western Cape’ - out now! Check it out #IHD

We are delighted to announce that the 32nd annual British International History Group Conference will take place at King’s College London from 5-6 September 2024. Please submit a 250 word abstract and a one-page CV by Sunday 30 June to: [email protected].

Join us at our 33rd annual conference (#BIHG2024), this time at King's College London! Our #callforpapers is open until Fri 18th July - please email [email protected] All aspects of #InternationalHistory are welcome. Registration link will be posted shortly. #twitterstorians

Edmund Dene Morel, born #OnThisDay in 1873. A French-born journalist, activist, & MP, Morel came to prominence through his leadership of the Congo reform movement in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. Morel worked to expose Leopold II’s brutal system in the Congo…(🧵)

…that contributed to the death of around 10 million Congolese. Alongside Sir Roger Casement and Liverpool businessman John Holt, Morel founded the Congo Reform Association to raise public awareness of the atrocities and influence foreign policy on the issue. Once the Congo…

…region was annexed, Morel shifted his focus to foreign policy and campaigned for neutrality in the run up to the First World War. Falling short in this aim, Morel cofounded the Union of Democratic Control to press for a more responsive foreign policy. He was later imprisoned…

…for breaching the Defence of the Realm Act and spent six months in Pentonville Prison, seriously damaging his health. After the war, Morel entered politics himself, joining the Independent Labour Party. In the 1922 general election, Morel won the second seat in Dundee…

…defeating Winston Churchill in the process. Shortly after his reelection in 1924, Morel suffered a fatal heart attack. He is often remembered as a great humanitarian and human rights activist for his work on the Congo issue. Yet Morel also worked alongside big business to…

…deflect their suspect working practices and also held deeply problematic views of Africans generally, referring to them as ‘black savages’ and considering them less “civilised” than white people. I should hopefully have an article coming out soon that unpacks this darker side!