It is lovely to find out that I've been nominated for a Student led teaching award for the Most Innovative and Inspirational Teaching! Thank you to the students that took the time to nominate me. It means a lot!

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!
Wikimedia UK #pedagogy

A few thoughts on West Brom's play-off push for the fantastic LoftforWords. Things are steadily looking up for the Albion.

#QPRWBA

This group is arguably the best place to be an early career historian of southern/central Africa. Incidentally, it has also produced the most PhDs in History in SA over the past 5 years

Nelson Mandela's ID book is among the items to be auctioned by his daughter Makaziwe to raise funds for a Mandela Memorial Garden in Qunu, Eastern Cape. After a two-year legal battle and objections from the SA government, she won the right to do the auction.

First game of 2024. Arbroath away

BREAKING: Sheffield Hallam University is offering *all* academic staff voluntary severance, The Tribune can reveal.

The email — which was sent to around 4,000 academic staff by deputy vice chancellor Professor David Shepherd yesterday morning — said the scheme was intended to

Read how local anti-apartheid groups all over Britain took up local issues in their fight against apartheid #antiapartheidlegacy #ACTSA_UK #AntiApartheidMovementScottishCommittee
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Big thanks as always to Matt Graham for his input ahead of tomorrow's trip to West Brom - a club beset with ownership and financial problems, but with a brilliant manager doing fantastic work regardless. You can all do your own joke.

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#qpr #WBAQPR

🚨 PHD OPPORTUNITY 🚨

University of Dundee is offering a FULLY-FUNDED PhD scholarship in Modern Scottish History. This is an open opportunity that would allow you to develop a project of your choice. Happy to answer any questions directly.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DCU031/str…

Applications open for the 2023 Colin Murray award, which offers up to £2,500 to a postdoctoral researcher to support original ‘engaged field research’. Deadline Sunday 24 September. Details & application form are in the link.
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The state of historical ignorance / wilfully misleading assertions here by JRM underlines why studying history is so important

My contribution / musings for LoftforWords annual season preview for West Brom. It could be a return to the 90s and mid-table obscurity #WBA

First game of the new football season with Aberystwyth Town vs Llanelli Town. A bit of football tourism while away with work and a new stadium to add to the list

Global Solidarity Activism - the reseach network connecting the local to the global that Dr. Kate Law and I kickstarted earlier this year with the help of Jocelyn Olcott Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley @chrisfevre Matt Graham and lots of other great people - has a website! globalsolidarityactivism.uni.mau.se

It is great to be back at Wits to use the Historical Papers. Perhaps the most important thing is that you can still get a curry for less than R20 on campus

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 124 of The Continent. 

For Willem ‘Ters’ Ehlers, it was simply business. In April 1994, when the apartheid regime fell in South Africa, Ehlers, who served as PW Botha’s secretary, had to find a new gig.

These are a superb set of resources for anyone studying South African history at school

It is always such a lovely moment at the end of the teaching semester to find out that some wonderful students have nominated me for Dundee University Students' Association (DUSA)
Student Led Teaching Award. Thank you so much!

dusa.co.uk/slta

All nine volumes of 'Southern African Liberation Struggles 1960–1994: Contemporaneous Documents' have been made available on the SADC site.
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