Evan
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian and southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller
Pinned
Manchester University Press - In solidarity, under suspicion
In solidarity, under suspicion - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of In solidarity, under suspicion by Daniel Frost
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today!
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
The historian’s curse:
May your research be relevant to contemporary events
May your research be relevant to contemporary events
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The historian’s curse:
May your research be relevant to contemporary events
May your research be relevant to contemporary events
Routledge is having a Black Friday sale, so please indulge me in promoting my books with them.
• 'No Platform’
• 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'
• 'The Far Left in Australia since 1945'
• 'The British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth Century'
www.routledge.com/search?autho...
• 'No Platform’
• 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'
• 'The Far Left in Australia since 1945'
• 'The British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth Century'
www.routledge.com/search?autho...
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Routledge is having a Black Friday sale, so please indulge me in promoting my books with them.
• 'No Platform’
• 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'
• 'The Far Left in Australia since 1945'
• 'The British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth Century'
www.routledge.com/search?autho...
• 'No Platform’
• 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'
• 'The Far Left in Australia since 1945'
• 'The British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth Century'
www.routledge.com/search?autho...
Did some book proposal reviewing in exchange for books
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Did some book proposal reviewing in exchange for books
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Thanks for the recommendation Google Scholar! 😀
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Thanks for the recommendation Google Scholar! 😀
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Thanks for the recommendation Google Scholar! 😀
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Thanks for the recommendation Google Scholar! 😀
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
Here’s a pile of my previous books and edited collections
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#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Conference
Visit the post for more.
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026.
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
The US-centric nature of BlueSky is one of its most frustrating qualities
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The US-centric nature of BlueSky is one of its most frustrating qualities
As a kid in Australia in the 1980s-90s, everything I knew about Canada came from watching Degrassi or You Can’t Do That on Television.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As a kid in Australia in the 1980s-90s, everything I knew about Canada came from watching Degrassi or You Can’t Do That on Television.
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
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It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
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"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
The three spirits
December 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
The three spirits
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Our new book, 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956', is now also available from @manchesterup.bsky.social as an e-book, which you can find here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Check your institutional library for access!
Check your institutional library for access!
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Our new book, 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956', is now also available from @manchesterup.bsky.social as an e-book, which you can find here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Check your institutional library for access!
Check your institutional library for access!
Only 13 per cent of applications awarded for DECRAs this year. Solidarity with all the ECRs trying to negotiate academia at a time like this.
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Only 13 per cent of applications awarded for DECRAs this year. Solidarity with all the ECRs trying to negotiate academia at a time like this.
Moved to Manchester in the year this film came out. When I got it on DVD, I was amazed at how many places I recognised. The inside of the Factory club scene was filmed in Jilly’s Rockworld, for example.
a movie that takes place where i'm from
obviously manchester as a whole, but they filmed in clubs i used to patronise back in the day. i could point to the very place a pal threw up one night.
obviously manchester as a whole, but they filmed in clubs i used to patronise back in the day. i could point to the very place a pal threw up one night.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Moved to Manchester in the year this film came out. When I got it on DVD, I was amazed at how many places I recognised. The inside of the Factory club scene was filmed in Jilly’s Rockworld, for example.
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Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Historians of South Africa, is there an accessible electronic database of legislation passed during Union of South Africa period? Trying to get exact wording of some Acts from 1910s to 1930s.
Historians hesitant to join in with this because their facts are often not ‘fun’
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Historians hesitant to join in with this because their facts are often not ‘fun’
This presumes a career path
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This presumes a career path
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On 23 November 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released in the UK. It was the first time that the TMNT had been called the ‘Ninja Turtles’ because the cartoon had been renamed the ‘Hero Turtles’ due to a panic about ninjas in 1980s Britain.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
When the Right Tried to Cancel the Turtles
In the 1980s and '90s, successive moral panics about hooliganism and violence on TV culminated in a right-wing campaign against a dangerous social phenomenon: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
On 23 November 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released in the UK. It was the first time that the TMNT had been called the ‘Ninja Turtles’ because the cartoon had been renamed the ‘Hero Turtles’ due to a panic about ninjas in 1980s Britain.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
On 23 November 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released in the UK. It was the first time that the TMNT had been called the ‘Ninja Turtles’ because the cartoon had been renamed the ‘Hero Turtles’ due to a panic about ninjas in 1980s Britain.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
When the Right Tried to Cancel the Turtles
In the 1980s and '90s, successive moral panics about hooliganism and violence on TV culminated in a right-wing campaign against a dangerous social phenomenon: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
On 23 November 1990, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was released in the UK. It was the first time that the TMNT had been called the ‘Ninja Turtles’ because the cartoon had been renamed the ‘Hero Turtles’ due to a panic about ninjas in 1980s Britain.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/when...
Not really a cricket fan but at least it’s not US politics on my TL
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Not really a cricket fan but at least it’s not US politics on my TL