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Register now for our spring/summer seminars @ihr_history. Our phenomenal line-up of online/in-person speakers includes @ProfLRobinson @stephenjbrooke @alix_green @gcgosling @AlfieSteer @DrSharonThomp @lottelydia @teadevotee @caitbeaumont
@TomHulme87 & more
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5.30pm on Wed June 5th: online seminar
@gcgosling & @alix_green will be introducing their new @BrisUniPress book using English experiences and international encounters to rethink modern charitable, co-operative and commercial retail histories.
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
5.30pm on Wed June 19th: in-person seminar @ihr_history
@lottelydia & @teadevotee will be discussing the overlooked history of motherhood on the political left in modern Britain.
Book now: history.ac.uk/events/labour-…
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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
5.30pm on Wed June 5th: online seminar
@gcgosling & @alix_green will be introducing their new @BrisUniPress book using English experiences and international encounters to rethink modern charitable, co-operative and commercial retail histories.
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
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"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/…
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#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 @LibraryofBham
ALT A map entitled City of Birmingham Housing Estates. A map of the city of Birmingham. Imposed over the top are a series of circles, commencing with the smallest in the centre and the largest on the outer edges of the map. A compass pointing north in the top left of the map. Around the map, a series of black marks highlighting the various housing estates.
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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.
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5.30pm on Wed June 5th: online seminar
@gcgosling & @alix_green will be introducing their new @BrisUniPress book using English experiences and international encounters to rethink modern charitable, co-operative and commercial retail histories.
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
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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.
A group of archives are requesting feedback via survey about their efforts to develop a portal for Black British archives and material. Please take a moment to fill out the survey.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1UJy…
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We're very much looking forward to this IHR @contbrithist seminar tomorrow on @gcgosling 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 @M_Gehrhardt
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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🙂 ...
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#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 @LibraryofBham
ALT A map entitled City of Birmingham Housing Estates. A map of the city of Birmingham. Imposed over the top are a series of circles, commencing with the smallest in the centre and the largest on the outer edges of the map. A compass pointing north in the top left of the map. Around the map, a series of black marks highlighting the various housing estates.
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& my paper on @WomensInstitute welfare activism in 1960s & 1970s is part of roundtable showcasing our new co-ed collection #EverydayWelfareModBritHist at @LSBU_LSS Beyond Rights Conference tomorrow @LSBU. Here is the book cover with rest of book coming later this year! @Palgrave
The @WomensInstitute AGM is happening tomorrow @RoyalAlbertHall with keynote speaker @nazirafzal (@LSBU hon doc). By lovely coincidence at same time I am speaking about welfare activism of WI in 1960s & 1970s at @LSBU_LSS Beyond Rights Research Group conference. 👇WI AGM 1971.
Join us tomorrow to hear how this new book on 'Retail & Community' from @BrisUniPress disrupts familiar narratives about the decline of the high street - and to receive the 50% off discount code
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
5.30pm on Wed June 5th: online seminar
@gcgosling & @alix_green will be introducing their new @BrisUniPress book using English experiences and international encounters to rethink modern charitable, co-operative and commercial retail histories.
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
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Happy Pride Month to Everyone from the #archives team @BishopsgateInst! 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…
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I've started writing my next book, 'Never Cross a Picket Line', for @VersoBooks.
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!
ALT Contents list for book: NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE Space, Class and Power in Late Twentieth-Century Britain Contents list Introduction Ch1 The picket line in Britain: c. 1818-1965 Ch2 Militant and mobile: 1966-1974 Ch3 Solidarity and reaction: 1974-1979 Ch4 Containing the picket line: 1979-1986 Ch5 Crossing the picket line: 1966-1998 Ch6 Internalising the new regime: 1986-1998 Ch7 There will be no return: 1997-
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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. 🧵
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1/ Sadly, @DavidOlusoga 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.
Historian @DavidOlusoga on inequality, the key challenge facing the next UK government after July’s election.
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The Windrush Scandal Roadshow ends in Wolverhampton, Wed, 26 June (6pm start) Pls join us & circulate the link @RMCentre, @wlv_uni, @wolvcoll, @OpBlackVote, @ppvernon, @wawiproject, @DefendWindrush, @WlvLawSchool, @ameliagentleman, @WLAC21, @NewStyleRadio
history.ac.uk/events/windrus…
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Volunteer Chris found these great photos from a series simply titled “Holiday Scenes” which we think were produced as part of a @The_TUC campaign for Holidays with Pay, which started in 1911, and showed the benefits of rest & recreation
ALT Black and white photo of children surrounding a pram being pushed by a smiling clown
ALT entertainer amusing a group of children
@IHR_ContBritHist retweeted
Exciting news! My history of Cold War Britain through the eyes of children & young people is now under contract with @YaleBooks, coming spring 2026 #twitterstorians #histchild
ALT A still from the film Village of the Dammed (1963) showing creepy blonde children with glowing eyes.
We're delighted that @BrisUniPress are offering a special 50% off discount for the new Retail & Community edited collection.
@gcgosling and @alix_green will be sharing the code in their online seminar next Wednesday.
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
5.30pm on Wed June 5th: online seminar
@gcgosling & @alix_green will be introducing their new @BrisUniPress book using English experiences and international encounters to rethink modern charitable, co-operative and commercial retail histories.
Book now: tinyurl.com/msj3jmf2
Will you be joining us tomorrow?
In-person seminar at @ihr_history on grief and the racial politics of the 1980s with @stephenjbrooke
5.30pm on Wed May 22nd: in-person seminar @ihr_history
@stephenjbrooke will be asking what the death of Colin Roach and its aftermath tells us about the role of grief and anger in the racial politics of 1980s Britain.
Book now: tinyurl.com/35tskdj4
