🚨Student protests: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

Students have protested throughout history, including against their own universities’ complicity in domestic and international atrocities and injustices

With special thanks to European Legal Support Center (ELSC), here's what you need to know
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'Black Women Radicals and Networks of Transnational Resistance in the Twentieth-Century', via Zoom on Thursday 30th May, 5:30-7:00pm delivered by Tionne Alliyah Parris.

Register today to learn more about Tionne's vital research at: history.ac.uk/events/olivett…. (3/3)

A senior scholar I admire greatly said in a workshop: ‘no matter how many new pieces of nice stationery I buy to feel more organised, it doesn’t change the fact the workload itself is unmanageable.’

In that spirit: I’ve bought a new desk planner, knowing I’m kidding myself. 😅

📢 “I hope Goldsmiths management reconsiders the proposed staff reductions.”
Thank you to director and Goldsmiths alum Steve McQueen for showing solidarity on the threatened job cuts which could lead to the sacking of 35% of academic staff across 11 of 18 departments.
#binthetp

Lewis Hamilton’s Met Gala look inspired by the history of John Ystumllyn: 10/10 no notes.

Election day! Remember to vote today!

I asked the folks at the polling station how it was going with voter ID, and they said so far they haven’t had to turn anyone away. But many may not be making the trip. This voter ID law needs to be repealed.

Delighted that the launch issue of Modern British History is out now! Featuring an editorial on the field, its future, a roundtable on Four Nations and teaching, and reflections on popular articles: academic.oup.com/tcbh/issue/35/…

The 2018 Royal Historical Society report on racism in UK History departments highlighted stark inequalities in universities.

Jonathan Saha reflects on the progress (or lack of it) since then - & the current 'backlash' to antiracism in the academy.
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This week will see the first major elections requiring Voter ID in areas with a high concentration of voters of colour.

It is an unnecessary solution to a voter fraud problem the UK does not have. It is discriminatory by design, and will likely disenfranchise thousands.

The policing of those protests in the US is absolutely unhinged.

So many congratulations to Goldsmiths Black British History alumna Anna Osarose on the publication of her research in this exciting edited collection! It was an absolute privilege to be her MA supervisor, Anna is now pursuing her PhD so watch out for more of her brilliance hitting the presses.

✊🏽We are standing together against the cruel Rwanda Act.

That is why we & 250 other organisations wrote to the PM about about our shared outrage on this despicable assault on the most marginalised in our society.

#NotRwandaNotAnywhere

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The Rwanda Bill trades on racist narratives.

It scapegoats and dehumanises the most vulnerable people - disproportionately people of colour - nurturing the conditions for racism.

It is a terrible indictment of our political system that it has passed.

Throughout the process of researching for our project on the Black Liberation Front in Britain, we encountered a wealth of archival materials. We have digitised and shared these online. Explore the YHP archive on our website! younghistoriansproject.org/copy-of-blf-pr…

#BlackBritishHistory