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The Indian Workers' Association was set up in Coventry in 1938 to fight for India's freedom & to champion the rights of workers.

IWA is working with University of Warwick to deliver a series of workshops, enabling students aged 18-25 to engage with this history.

Email: [email protected]

Any M4C students looking to develop skills and knowledge in the charity sector, deliver public engagement work and participate in Widening Participation and Student Success agendas? Go to the VPP to find The Brilliant Club’s new internship opportunities. Deadline: 14.06.24

“The Goldsmiths crisis”. (Not a story about a shortage of artisan craftspeople. Maybe we should all retrain.)

Thank you to everyone paying attention to this developing story, and to those who have reached out.

'Twentieth-Century British History' is changing its name to 'Modern British History'.

This account is no longer active, so please follow our new account at Modern British History. x.com/OUPHistory/sta…

Really excited to see that my book Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation is almost out! (summer publication) with Manchester University Press in Studies in Imperialism Series

Well this is exciting!

The first episode of my new podcast Eccentric Circles is a walk along the Strand in London feat. Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, Jacob Epstein & the characters of Virginia Woolf. Why not grab your 🎧and join me😈
(new eps weekly)
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ecc…

This conference is going to be great! Gender & Sexuality in Modern British History & Beyond, at the University of Birmingham, 3 July 2024. Organised by some really excellent doctoral researchers. Please share widely. ModernBritishStudies CAL_Postgrads History Department

2024 South Asian Heritage Month theme launch #FreeToBeMe at Uni of Birmingham by Jasvir Singh ਜਸਵੀਰ جسویر जसवीर. Personal reflections on theme from GP Dr Sharif & Uni of Birmingham very own Dr Dr Shahmima Akhtar & Dr Manu Seghal. Energetic & graceful performance by Sampad dancers & UoB Bhangra Soc Society.

Look out for our advert in the Birmingham Mail this week! But if you want more information now, click the link below.

Calling all Midlands4Cities funded students! We have just announced three exciting new placement opportunities in partnership with The RSC and Cultural Learning Alliance. Head over to the VPP ASAP for application details.

Applications for our IHR Doctoral Fellowships will be opening on 08th April 2024! All information on how to apply will be available on our website closer to the date - history.ac.uk/fellowships/ea… #IHRFellowships 📖 🖊️

Really looking foward to this fascinating - and free! - BRIHC lecture at the University of Birmingham later this month.

'Bleu, Blanc, Rouge & Brown: French Histories, Colonial Spaces.' roxanne panchasi with respondent Venus Bivar

20 March, 2PM. See you there!
birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…

🎟️Exhibiting Cultures (Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities)
📅TOMORROW
🕚 15.00-16.30 GMT/UTC
🏫 Arts 224 (Danford Room)
💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/ExhCultures

Chaired by Dr Kate Nichols with response from Dr Shahmima Akhtar.
Papers from Elisa Chazal & Maria Chiara Scuderi

The Midland History journal welcomes article submissions from professional and independent historians, and research students, working on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here: tandfonline.com/journals/ymdh20

On Wednesday we received the devastating and unprecedented news of 130 full-time equivalent compulsory redundancies on top of an extensive Voluntary Severance Scheme. GUCU has been preparing: our industrial action ballot opens TODAY. Vote Yes Yes #bintheTP UCU

We are delighted to present our first full-length annual programme, Catastrophe and Emergence.

Our 2024 programme nurtures spaces for confronting the present, exchanging free and open dialogue to imagine and articulate alternatives together.

Learn more:
stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/catas…

I am excited and delighted to share that my first book will be published this summer w/ Manchester University Press. It’s been 10+ years in the making. Huge thanks to my editor shannon kneis and to Thomas Dark for commissioning it.

Can’t wait to share the book cover very soon!