“They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.”

Bernie Sanders discusses the student anti-war protests sweeping colleges in America.…

In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., told us the white moderate “is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice” and said this is someone who “prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

BREAKING @columbia AAUP calls for a vote of no confidence in Pres. Shafik and the whole university administration

Please spread widely- Statement from the members of the #UCLA History department in response to the attack on the encampment on 30 April 2024

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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We are pleased to be supporting the 'Colonies, Camps and Captive Spaces of Empire' workshop in London on 2nd July 2024

Please see and share the call for participants below:

pastandpresent.org.uk/call-for-parti…

Don’t worry, Sampson. They’re just jealous. London Metropolitan Archives

In the male workroom at Beaumaris Prison, prisoners picked oakum. A form of hard labour, the task could make fingers bleed. Even so, some still found opportunity, time & strength to carve names & pictures into the floor tiles. An act of amusement, resistance or self expression?

Apparently I’m an Honoré Daumier fan now

Wine & punishment history intersecting in Würzburg….

I am honoured to be delivering the inaugural RHS/ GHIL Lecture on 23 January 2024 @ 5.30pm. I'll be thinking about how the history of penal colonies matters now. eventbrite.co.uk/e/royal-histor… History at Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities University of Leicester The Leverhulme Trust Royal Historical Society

Really pleased to announce the launch of a new version (9.0) of the Old Bailey Online oldbaileyonline.org. There is lots of new functionality, and a thoroughly redesigned front and back end.

Calling all Crime Historians! The British Crime Historians conference will be coming to Manchester next year. Our wonderful keynote speakers are Hallie Rubenhold and Anindita Ghosh ! Please find the call for papers here: uomhistory.com/2023/12/11/bri… Dr Charlotte Wildman

Not a bad spot to do some reading

The call for papers for next year's SHS conference is now live.

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be in Durham, 8-10 July 2024.

The call is wide-ranging and we like to think we're a friendly bunch:

socialhistory.org.uk/2023/11/20/cal…