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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 14h

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector.

Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

No Going Back

Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Duncan!!

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 1d

📢 episode 3 is out now

We meet the pensioner who looked into her pension fund's due diligence on climate change

What she found was shocking...

Featuring
@carbontracker.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and many more

Listen now: www.overshootpod.com

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Jacqueline!

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! And your site looks amazing - thanks for sharing.

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 5d

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

academic.oup.com

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Here's our website, where you can follow our latest articles and podcast episodes. And feel free to get in touch if you're a history writer working inside or outside academia - I'm always open to interesting pitches!

History Workshop

History Workshop is a digital magazine of radical history. It seeks to deepen understandings of the past, cast fresh light on the present and agitate for change in the world we live in now.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Some exciting personal news: I’m now working at @historyworkshop.org.uk as an Editorial Fellow! It's such a privilege to join a magazine I've loved for years, and to engage with historians and activists from around the world.

A wooden door built into a crumbling stone wall at Mombasa's Fort Jesus. A sign carved above the door marks that it was once the entrance to the offices of the British East Africa Protectorate - the entry point for colonial rulers who would reshape the region and its history.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 5d

In autumn 2000, fuel protests brought Britain to a standstill - just as record floods swept the country.

David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore what ordinary people made of oil, climate, and crisis at the dawn of the new millennium.

Of Flood Plains and Fuel Protests

How did ordinary people in 2000 make sense of oil, floods, and climate change? David Tomory and Timothy Cooper explore the link between fuel protests and flood waters.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to share the latest article by Halima Athumani in the Mail and Guardian! It follows Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's campaign for a seventh consecutive term, and how both government and opposition supporters see the country's future.

mg.co.za/thought-lead...

Uganda’s Museveni: seven times a president, still wants another term

As he runs for president yet again, his NRM party aims to boost the economy and uplift citizens but critics say that the people have lost faith in him

mg.co.za

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 7d

What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.

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Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · 8d

It sounds wrong to say I've been looking forward to a podcast about climate collapse, but this is the most compelling and human take on life in a post-1.5 world that I've heard in a long time.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 8d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · Sep 12

Excited to share this new documentary by Julius Mugambwa!
It's a deep dive into organ donation across Africa, from the extraordinary science of medical transplants to the dangers of organ trafficking in Kenya. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHSc...

Organ donation in Africa: Science, tabooos and trafficking exposed | The 77 Percent Full Show

YouTube video by DW The 77 Percent

www.youtube.com

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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · Nov 9

Time for a new introduction: I am a historian of 20th century political history. Passionate about transnational and global history. Did my PhD on German communism, internationalism and solidarity. Currently working on global antifascism. researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/k...

Kasper Brasken

researchportal.helsinki.fi

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Aug 27

Read the new OA article by @caitlinbarker.bsky.social on the #diplomacy carried out by #women from #Cameroon in #China during the era of #decolonization:

bit.ly/4mGMdg6

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 1

New article just published!

Alex Haley claimed to be a 'dispassionate chronicler', but he edited, omitted and even plagiarised parts of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I wrote about the complicated history of the book for @aeon.co:
aeon.co/essays/how-a...

How Alex Haley wrote and reframed the life of Malcolm X | Aeon Essays

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

aeon.co

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Niels Boender @nielsboender.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thrilled to say that my most recent article has been released. It appears in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, on the politics of chieftaincy in decolonising Central Kenya, where many ex-Mau Mau found their way into local politics. read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...

Neo–Mau Mau and Ex-Loyalists | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is lovely news! My article is in very good company...

Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Interview sessions were tense."

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to
writer @alexjwhite.bsky.social & @aeon.co!

Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

aeon.co/essays/how-a...

How Alex Haley wrote and reframed the life of Malcolm X | Aeon Essays

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

aeon.co

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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congrats to @alexjwhite.bsky.social for his new article in @aeon.co! Sixty years on, The Autobiography of Malcolm X still shapes how we think about the Black nationalist leader - but does the final text reflect Malcolm's vision, or that of his co-author Alex Haley?

Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 1

New article just published!

Alex Haley claimed to be a 'dispassionate chronicler', but he edited, omitted and even plagiarised parts of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I wrote about the complicated history of the book for @aeon.co:
aeon.co/essays/how-a...

How Alex Haley wrote and reframed the life of Malcolm X | Aeon Essays

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

aeon.co

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is so kind! Really glad you engaged with the article - memoirs play such an important role on public memory but can require a lot of interrogating first.

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Dr Hugo Fagandini @sonetlumiere.bsky.social · Aug 1

A great and, as someone themselves reading the book for the first time, essential read - another demonstration of the need to treat memoirs, autobiographies etc with more than a pinch of salt, and as presentations that the authors (in this case, ghost author) make of their lives, thoughts and deeds.

Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 1

New article just published!

Alex Haley claimed to be a 'dispassionate chronicler', but he edited, omitted and even plagiarised parts of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I wrote about the complicated history of the book for @aeon.co:
aeon.co/essays/how-a...

How Alex Haley wrote and reframed the life of Malcolm X | Aeon Essays

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

aeon.co

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 1

I thoroughly recommend this @PBS interview with Alice Windom, too! She had such a deep and personal insight into the transforming world of the 1960s and deserves much better recognition.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Alice Windom | Interview | American Masters | PBS

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you're interested in reading more about the material the Autobiography misses, I also explored Malcolm X's work in Africa and Asia in @newlinesmag.bsky.social:

newlinesmag.com/essays/malco...

Malcolm X and the Difficulties of Diplomacy

In 1964, the Black nationalist organizer toured Africa and the Middle East on a journey that would both transform his outlook and reveal the limits of transnational solidarity

newlinesmag.com

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Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social · Aug 1

New article just published!

Alex Haley claimed to be a 'dispassionate chronicler', but he edited, omitted and even plagiarised parts of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I wrote about the complicated history of the book for @aeon.co:
aeon.co/essays/how-a...

How Alex Haley wrote and reframed the life of Malcolm X | Aeon Essays

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

aeon.co

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International Press Association of Uganda @ipauganda.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congratulations to Julius Mugambwa for his new film with
@dwnews! It's about preserving the biodiversity of sacred and culturally important sites across Uganda, and you can watch it here:

www.dw.com/en/ugandas-s...

Uganda's spiritual and ecological sanctuaries – DW – 07/30/2025

Sacred sites like Kabaka's Lake and Ssezibwa Falls preserve cultural and spiritual heritage in Uganda - and are home to unique and fragile ecosystems.

www.dw.com

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