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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 17h

📣 Happening Tomorrow!

Join the forum on ASEAN’s Failure on Women, Youth, Peace & Security in #Myanmar — featuring voices from across Myanmar calling for justice & accountability.

🗓 16 Oct | ⏰ 9AM (Malaysia) / 7:30AM (Myanmar)
Register🔗 bit.ly/3L4n40D

👉 More info: shorturl.at/9fjVd

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 14h

Just go in and shake the manager's hand firmly!

Jokes aside, we have thousands of hours of video archives stored here and digitised for you to view online. Including this charming film about the Thamesmead estate!
www.youtube.com/@TheLondonAr...

#Meme #Housing #LondonHistory #Archives

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 14h

A local north london charity called Akwaaba is raising money for a creative art space for refugees, unhoused ppl, and the wider community. Even small donations will make a big difference! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #UKKidlit

Help raise £7000 to support a creative art space – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support a creative art space . Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 1d

Photo from exhibition showing people marching in solidarity against a deportation

A description of life in Lumb Lane, Manningham, Bradford in the 1970s and 80s

Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this when I was in Bradford earlier this year - fascinating if forgotten slice of the city's history www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures

Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities

www.theguardian.com

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 2d

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7d

"These are children who have never held a weapon. We taught them how to handle assault rifles and machine guns, RPGs. After that, they were sent to the front. We were training them to get killed.”
#KeepEyesOnSudan

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries training Sudan’s child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

www.theguardian.com

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 2d

Haringey Community Cinema & Haringey Migrant Support Centre present: Night of the Kings

Date: 23 Oct • 19:30

Location: 280 St Ann's Road, London, N15 5BN

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hcc-hmsc-p...

HCC & HMSC present: Night of the Kings

As part of our Autumn Programme, we're delighted to present Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2d

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7d

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 7d

An excellent example of British entitlement and hypocrisy.
Europe closing its borders and clamping down on migrants abusing the system isn’t allowed to include Brits.

A Telegraph headline
EU threatens to kick out British Second home owners
www.thetelegraph.co.uk

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 7d

When you agree more with an old Tory than 90% of the Labour Party 🤦🏽‍♀️

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 7d

It’s revealing how thrown the interviewer is by an answer that is evidently an honest expression of genuinely held political principles, as opposed to the sound bites and weasel words that dominate political interviews in the present.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 8d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 7d

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

museumofhomelessness.org

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 10d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New research published today

'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families.

Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK

Senior Economist Molly Broome:
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 7d

Let a whole population of people trapped out of work start rebuilding their lives, and get vital work done at the same time?
Letting people seeking asylum work just makes sense.

#LiftTheBan

What if the solution to Wales’ skills crisis was already here — but trapped by red tape? - Institute of Welsh Affairs

Paul Shackson from the Welsh Refugee Council explains how a skills shortage in Wales could be tackled thanks to a ready and willing workforce waiting to help.

www.iwa.wales

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 8d

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope

Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.

www.versobooks.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 8d

As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised

I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack

As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza

www.heraldscotland.com

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 8d

Private companies incentivised to put asylum seekers in hotels rather than bedsits as they could earn EIGHT TIMES as much profit, says @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social

Hotel owners and private companies benefiting despite allegations of terrible conditions

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 8d

Most of my experiences travelling outside cities in the UK involve not seeing another brown face, so I guess we're quits, Jenrick (and I have just come back from Carlisle where I saw more St George's cross and Union Jack flags than brown people)

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 8d

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, 💯 and let's not forget how white flight contributes to this picture

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