good morning *especially* our sheffield student encampment. our university *more than any other in the UK* profits from the arms trade. excited to be talking there later about why western humanitarianism has historically failed to prevent or condemn genocide.

Just a few hours ago the Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine (Palestine.SCCP) have set up a solidarity encampment outside the students union on the University of Sheffield campus, read why here:

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/unive…

Students have set up an encampment outside the SU in solidarity with the Palestinian people, as well as protesting against the university's alleged complicity in Israeli apartheid and the ongoing bombardment of Gaza. 1/5
twitter.com/nowthenmag/sta…

Call for contributions in English or Portuguese to a special issue of Práticas da História: (Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge. Deadline 30 April, details in the link.
praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retros…

#twitterstorians : organizing a WORKSHOP together w Agnieszka Sobocinska on 'Historical CHALLENGES to International DEVELOPMENT' King's College London on 12-13 Sept 24 - appl deadline May 1 - pls find and share CFP: networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

We've been silent for a while, very busy writing our collective book which we have just sent to the publisher... right on the day of the 45th anniversary of Idi Amin's fall... quite a coincidence ! Now the wait for reviews begins🤞But quite a milestone for our team...

Three-year postdoc at Edinburgh on 'Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present'

East African focus is on Kenya/Tanzania

jobs.ac.uk/job/DGZ833/pos…

Three-year postdoc at Edinburgh on 'Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present'

East African focus is on Kenya/Tanzania

jobs.ac.uk/job/DGZ833/pos…

Paris is getting a bit carried away with marketing towards anglophones: if just having a 'pastry crescent' isn't enough to begin your day, one café advertises a 'dark breakfast' (presumably the opposite of a 'light' one)...

Thanks Jeff! My book is indeed out as an e-book, hardcopies soon.

Focusing on East Africa, it looks at how different trajectories of state-led capitalist development affect the strength of ruling parties & legislatures, plus why that matters for distributive politics/democracy.

on March 27 we wrote to the Decolonise Warwick Experience Conference team to ask if we could organise an interactive panel on Palestine, to discuss the University's complicity in the ongoing genocide. Our proposal was rejected. A 🧵 (1/n)

I wrote something for the The New Statesman about the crisis in university funding, and what we’re not doing about it newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

To Paris...

Nyerere statue provokes memories and relevance at home and abroad -- Sammy Awami for Geeska

geeska.com/en/nyerere-sta…

An important new article from History & Policy Institute of Historical Research by Dr Alison McClean University of Bristol. Thousands of previously declassified files have been closed at the National Archives in a process that is both opaque and contrary to the spirit of FOI legislation. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

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I remember this in a crystal clear Football Italia way.

Recoba at Venezia, one of the great loan spells

'Making Cities Socialist' is out! 📚 Part of the Elements in Global Urban History series, it's also free to download until Mar 25: cambridge.org/core/elements/… Global Urban History UHA

Job klaxon! Uni of Shef History is advertising 2 x 3-year fixed term posts in early modern and modern history to replace myself and Professor Phil Withington while we take up Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships from September. jobs.ac.uk/job/DGK071/lec… and jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM356/lec…

🚨Everyone stop right now and read this article about LSE's appalling response to abusive prof. This has been YEARS in the making:

'Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor'

thebeaverlse.co.uk/sexual-miscond…