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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 4h

They used to just emblazon something onto the flag that was more direct.

Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 4h

I’m convinced that if there’d been a more socially acceptable and less ambiguous symbol of white power, the people putting up these flags would have just used it. You can’t put up a swastika or sunwheel these days so they’ve had to use symbols that are racist in a way that’s plausibly deniable.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6h

Cheers Matt. I hope so, begins in your favourite decade with Mosley & Padmore and ends up in the 1970s - hope it’s coherent too!

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6h

Finally, it's Open Access so should be able to read for free. I hope you enjoy it!

Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6h

I'm really proud of it and think it's a good illustration of the kind of historian I am and the kind of history I'm interested in. Thanks to all the audiences who commented on the paper version and to everyone who read drafts. Thanks also to archivists at the George Padmore Institute and the BL.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6h

New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s - Volume 64

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7h

Just paying it forward. it was BlueSky gossip I heard a little while ago.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 8h

The Wetherspoons intel has just transformed my afternoon.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 9h

As I head off in search of a branch of Caffe Nero's so I can look at the British Library Online Newspaper Archives for free, I'd like to remind people that this is something you can do.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 10h

This is later on today for people in York!

Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7d

York people, I'm giving a paper at the Uni History Department's research seminar on Wednesday 15 October. Particularly keen for feedback from historians of crime, historical criminologists, and criminologists.

An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 1d

History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life – featuring our colleagues Amanda Herbert and Liam Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social with Heworth Grange School in Gateshead

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social · 1d

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

More details:
@sslh.bsky.social

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#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 5d

The Daily Mail says ‘Hurrah’… for… ‘Peace in Our Time’…

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6d

Puts me in mind of my favourite Rhodes' quote: "I would annex the planets if I could." Anglofuturist "movement" sounds like a Mosleyite corruption of a Michael Moorcock novel.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 6d

Told me everything I needed to know: "While some AI images were inspired by the British Empire, naming hypothetical space ships after the colonists Cecil Rhodes and Warren Hastings, Anglofuturism appears to be more focused on thinking ambitiously about the future."

Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social · 6d

Really interesting new article by @patrikhermansson.bsky.social and @harryshukman.bsky.social explaining what Anglofuturism is. Check it out! hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...

Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate

In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Hannah, this research is now approaching a possible History Workshop article (!) but it's nothing to do with what the book I'm supposed to be writing so this probably counts as procrastination.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7d

York people, I'm giving a paper at the Uni History Department's research seminar on Wednesday 15 October. Particularly keen for feedback from historians of crime, historical criminologists, and criminologists.

An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 7d

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7d

… like the Traditional Britain Group. For all that the machinery of the Conservative Party has blocked the electoral road to British fascist parties, elements within the party have also repeatedly appropriated aspects of their politics. None of this is foreign to the Conservative Party.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 7d

Something like Robert Jenrick has always been part of the Tory ecosystem from Major Evans-Gordon at the start of the 20thC; through William Joynson-Hicks in the 1920s; to Cyril Osborne in the 1950s; Powell, the Monday Club, and Keith Joseph in the 1960s and 1970s, to more recent initiatives…

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 8d

I'm in episode one and if you're interested in the research behind my contribution, you can read about it here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 8d

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 8d

It's funny. I'd never thought of it before, but I wonder if the initial inspiration for that novel more or less came to him on that train journey. To some extent, the whole novel is about trying to sink into that sleepiness and, in the face of airborne horrors of another war, failing to do so.

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 8d

There’s a good line reminiscent of this in his 1939 novel Coming Up for Air.

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Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social · 13d

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press

The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

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