Laura C Forster
@lauracforster.bsky.social
Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historywo.bsky.social | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
October 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Joel & I talking to Chris Browne about friendship, reimagining the world, & fighting the far right
Radicals in Conversation 📻
open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...
Radicals in Conversation 📻
open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Joel & I talking to Chris Browne about friendship, reimagining the world, & fighting the far right
Radicals in Conversation 📻
open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...
Radicals in Conversation 📻
open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...
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August 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Full text here:
You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌
May 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌
If you have a generous research allowance, or bags of spare cash, here's a discount code to buy a copy! (failing that if anyone wants a free pdf, get in touch)
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you have a generous research allowance, or bags of spare cash, here's a discount code to buy a copy! (failing that if anyone wants a free pdf, get in touch)