Exciting news! My history of Cold War Britain through the eyes of children & young people is now under contract with Yale University Press London 📖, coming spring 2026 #twitterstorians #histchild

"The Rushdie Affair has yet to be subject to a sustained analysis by historians. Journalists and political scientists continue to focus on the fatwa, despite the fact the protests against the novel in Britain predated Khomeini’s decree by two months." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Will you be joining us tomorrow? In-person seminar at Institute of Historical Research on grief and the racial politics of the 1980s with @stephenjbrooke

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I've started writing my next book, 'Never Cross a Picket Line', for Verso Books. It's a history of picketing & picket lines in Britain, primarily in the last third of the 20th century. Anyone with any good picket related reading / watching etc. recommendations, get in touch!

We're delighted that Bristol Uni Press are offering a special 50% off discount for the new Retail & Community edited collection. George Gosling and @alix_green will be sharing the code in their online seminar next Wednesday. Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2

The Windrush Scandal Roadshow ends in Wolverhampton, Wed, 26 June (6pm start) Pls join us & circulate the link Refugee and Migrant Centre🧡, University of Wolverhampton, City of Wolverhampton College, Operation Black Vote, Patrick Vernon, WAWI Project, Windrush National Organisation WNO. W.Movement UK, Wolverhampton Law School, amelia gentleman, Windrush Legal Advice Clinic., Newstyle Radio history.ac.uk/events/windrus…

Volunteer Chris found these great photos from a series simply titled “Holiday Scenes” which we think were produced as part of a Trades Union Congress campaign for Holidays with Pay, which started in 1911, and showed the benefits of rest & recreation

On this day in 1941, clothes rationing was introduced by the British government in an attempt to reduce clothing consumption by approximately one third. The impact on individuals was immediate. British film producers were affected, too. Their story is less well known. 🧵

1/ Sadly, David Olusoga is right about the St Cuthbert's Village council estate he grew up in (see next tweet) - it was not a success - but he's also so right about the libraries and sports centres that allowed working-class kids like him to flourish back then.

When we started work on this book, I knew it was about how charity shops were part of a broader retail history. I didn't realise it would also be about how British communities and the end of empire were part of both local and global histories. Find out more...

Happy Pride Month to Everyone from the #archives team Bishopsgate Institute! Do remember, at the following link you can access the programmes, badge and reports on every London Pride event, 1972-1997 #Pride2024 #LGBTQ+ bishopsgate.org.uk/the-pride-arch…

#MapOnATuesday This time it’s this map of the City of Birmingham housing estates, 1931 – produced by Herbert H. Humphries, City Engineer and Surveyor. Ref - MAP/663007 LibraryofBirmingham

One of my favourite maps and key to my PhD thesis on 'Working-class Politics in Birmingham and Sheffield, 1918-1931' which some of you may not have read🙂 ... wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34790/

& my paper on Women's Institute welfare activism in 1960s & 1970s is part of roundtable showcasing our new co-ed collection #EverydayWelfareModBritHist at School of LSS Beyond Rights Conference tomorrow London South Bank University - LSBU. Here is the book cover with rest of book coming later this year! Palgrave Macmillan

Join us tomorrow to hear how this new book on 'Retail & Community' from Bristol Uni Press disrupts familiar narratives about the decline of the high street - and to receive the 50% off discount code Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2

We're very much looking forward to this IHR @IHR_ContBritHist seminar tomorrow on George Gosling and @alix_green's edited collection, 'Retail & Community' (out 28 June!). With TWO chapters on Salvation Army charity retail: one by Ruth Macdonald, our Archivist, and one by Marjorie Gehrhardt

Survey below about a potential online portal for the George Padmore Institute, Black Cultural Archives, the Friends of the Huntley Archives at the London Metropolitan Archives, and the National Archives.

Looking forward to joining @alix_green later today to reflect on what it means to take a 'local to global' view in rethinking narratives around the decline of the high street - and sharing the 50% discount code for our new book