sundeep
@historysunny.bsky.social
Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
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Lovely to see Exhibiting Irishness at the @manchesterup.bsky.social table at #NACBS2025
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Lovely to see Exhibiting Irishness at the @manchesterup.bsky.social table at #NACBS2025
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What is the Black Archive? Reparations and Transformation
Sat, 29 Nov, British Library
On Presenting the Past: Black Archives in Britain Today – GPI Archivist will be talking at this first discussion of the day, along with the BFI and the Stuart Hall Archive
See British Library website to book
Sat, 29 Nov, British Library
On Presenting the Past: Black Archives in Britain Today – GPI Archivist will be talking at this first discussion of the day, along with the BFI and the Stuart Hall Archive
See British Library website to book
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What is the Black Archive? Reparations and Transformation
Sat, 29 Nov, British Library
On Presenting the Past: Black Archives in Britain Today – GPI Archivist will be talking at this first discussion of the day, along with the BFI and the Stuart Hall Archive
See British Library website to book
Sat, 29 Nov, British Library
On Presenting the Past: Black Archives in Britain Today – GPI Archivist will be talking at this first discussion of the day, along with the BFI and the Stuart Hall Archive
See British Library website to book
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Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Atlantic Charter Revised: West African and Caribbean newspapers and the seeds of decolonisation
This session examines how the Atlantic Charter and wartime “rights talk” fueled anti-colonial claims, showing how West African and Caribbean presses shaped decolonisation.
www.history.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Join us tmrw 5.30pm-7pm at the IHR (room N304) or online (link below) for what promises to be a wonderful event! Dr Leslie James will be discussing her research on 'The Atlantic Charter Revisited: West African & Caribbean newspapers & the seeds of decolonisation'.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Out now! Tadaaa! My essay on Indian performers in Britain
Let me know if you would like a copy and don't have access to it via your library
Let me know if you would like a copy and don't have access to it via your library
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Out now! Tadaaa! My essay on Indian performers in Britain
Let me know if you would like a copy and don't have access to it via your library
Let me know if you would like a copy and don't have access to it via your library
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Intense but inspiring event yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrating 10 years of this brilliant online resource for teachers (and everyone interested in UK's long history of migration) www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
Needed more now than ever.
Needed more now than ever.
Home
Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Intense but inspiring event yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrating 10 years of this brilliant online resource for teachers (and everyone interested in UK's long history of migration) www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
Needed more now than ever.
Needed more now than ever.
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Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Wonderful to spend yesterday afternoon celebrating ten years of Our Migration Story, an unrivalled online resource for teachers and students to learn about migration’s centrality to the making of modern Britain. Congrats to all who made OMS possible — felt urgent and energising
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Excellent workshop and 10-year anniversary celebration yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for that marvellous open access teaching resource, Our Migration Story. Shout out to the team that conceptualised and orchestrated it years ago & for fostering its growth to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
Home
Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Excellent workshop and 10-year anniversary celebration yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for that marvellous open access teaching resource, Our Migration Story. Shout out to the team that conceptualised and orchestrated it years ago & for fostering its growth to @runnymedetrust.bsky.social
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Had a great time today at the 10 year anniversary of the Our Migration Story website (still looking good!). Really inspiring to hear how successful it's been and how important quality teaching about migration is in the current climate.
ourmigrationstory.org.uk
ourmigrationstory.org.uk
Home
Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the UK.
ourmigrationstory.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Had a great time today at the 10 year anniversary of the Our Migration Story website (still looking good!). Really inspiring to hear how successful it's been and how important quality teaching about migration is in the current climate.
ourmigrationstory.org.uk
ourmigrationstory.org.uk
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Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Teaching Slavery
This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...
uclpress.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
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I wrote this 9 years ago today, apparently, tho that's nothing on the 224 year old Daniel Defoe quote I cite
For the launch of this website
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For the launch of this website
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We damage Britain by denying its migrant past | Omar Khan
Brexiters spoke of ‘taking our country back’. But that was based on a false notion who we are as a people, and of our history of immigration
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I wrote this 9 years ago today, apparently, tho that's nothing on the 224 year old Daniel Defoe quote I cite
For the launch of this website
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For the launch of this website
www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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....
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
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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....
doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
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Black Atlas is now open ✨
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Black Atlas is now open ✨
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A major new exhibition by Edward George centred on a 57-minute film composed of photographs from the Image of the Black archive.
📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
New PhD Student Session
For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.
www.history.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
September 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
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‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.’ Great intervention from Gary Younge at our @britishacademy.bsky.social panel this evening on the future of humanities and social sciences
September 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.’ Great intervention from Gary Younge at our @britishacademy.bsky.social panel this evening on the future of humanities and social sciences
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The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!
Migration and Mobility History
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.
www.history.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!
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Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions
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It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.
Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.
Expect to hear a lot more of that.
Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.
Expect to hear a lot more of that.
September 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.
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History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
Starting this week:
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We've recorded nearly 100 hours of oral histories from British South Asians across the UK—spanning generations, identities & regions. Archived with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & free to access: southasianbritain.org/oral-histories/project-collection/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed
Project Collection | South Asian Britain
southasianbritain.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We've recorded nearly 100 hours of oral histories from British South Asians across the UK—spanning generations, identities & regions. Archived with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & free to access: southasianbritain.org/oral-histories/project-collection/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed
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Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org
The Horton Nine Thousand
www.thehortonninethousand.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org
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‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
on.ft.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’
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It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
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CW: Rape
Reporting this absolutely horrific story as an ‘isolated incident’ in the same week we’re seeing such extensive coverage of far-right rallies is doing far more than not connecting the dots.
Meanwhile, I hope this woman finds justice and peace.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reporting this absolutely horrific story as an ‘isolated incident’ in the same week we’re seeing such extensive coverage of far-right rallies is doing far more than not connecting the dots.
Meanwhile, I hope this woman finds justice and peace.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
MPs express shock after alleged racially motivated rape of Sikh woman
West Midlands detectives are looking for two white male suspects after incident involving 20-year-old in Oldbury
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
CW: Rape
Reporting this absolutely horrific story as an ‘isolated incident’ in the same week we’re seeing such extensive coverage of far-right rallies is doing far more than not connecting the dots.
Meanwhile, I hope this woman finds justice and peace.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reporting this absolutely horrific story as an ‘isolated incident’ in the same week we’re seeing such extensive coverage of far-right rallies is doing far more than not connecting the dots.
Meanwhile, I hope this woman finds justice and peace.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Have any Labour ministers or MPs spoken out about Musk inciting insurrection in the UK today?
Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
September 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Have any Labour ministers or MPs spoken out about Musk inciting insurrection in the UK today?