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Saima Nasar
@saimanasar.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own.

PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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‘“Resistance” spans the hundred years or so during which the photographic print was the primary medium of visual communication. Aesthetically and technically, this makes sense. Politically, however, it’s curious.’

@trillingual.bsky.social on Steve McQueen.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Although the events depicted in Resistance are familiar territory for an exhibition concerned with social history –...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Corporate profit margins have increased by 30% since the pandemic. Electricity companies have trebled their margins. The 4 big banks made £45bn in 2022 (up by 75%). But instead of talking about corporate profiteering our gov talks about taking jewellery and “identifiable assets” from migrants.
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Truly and utterly stunned. The Telegraph has chosen Vanished as one of the ‘greatest books of 2025’ and described it as a ‘rigorous, fascinating narrative.’

Verily, this is the most unexpected place for my roar to have reached.

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Looking forward to the first full day of conference proceedings at #NACBS2025 today, and sharing new research with @saimanasar.bsky.social @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social & Rob Waters. So many brilliant panels to chose from, but come along if you can!
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉

Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
bacls.org/news/187/
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social and I are delighted to see Husseina Dinani's @genderandhistory.bsky.social article out investigating Ithna Asheri girls experiences of school in Dar es Salaam c.1980s-2000s🌟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Being Ithna Asheri: Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri Girls, the International School of Tanganyika and Segregation in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This study examines segregation in postcolonial Dar es Salaam through the lens of girlhood by focusing on Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri (Ithna Asheri) women's experiences of being students at the city's mo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association
Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory
oralhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Sam Watts, composer of #TheTraitors theme and UoN music alumni, shares his thoughts on the newly renamed University of Little England course closures...

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

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November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent

Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.

Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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What a great way to end the week, right @tricksterprince.bsky.social ?

#skystorians
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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From our printers to the beaches of Greece... and a cake!🍰

We're so excited to see copies of Electric Wind by @dudleymarianna.bsky.social making their way to readers.

Join readers in this riveting journey across Britain's windiest landscapes🌩️

Electric wind is available now: bit.ly/4nH5b5N
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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/...
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
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This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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On 1 November, we spent an uplifting afternoon celebrating the Black Parents Movement and being inspired to write creative reflections on the idea of resistance by the amazing Kat François. Visit our website and sign up to our mailing list for news of future workshops.

📸 George Padmore Institute
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.

Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.

Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
africasacountry.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Happy Mamdani Day!
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I love this quote. If you haven’t yet, go and see the #ArtInNursing exhibition at the @rcnlibraries.bsky.social It’s sooooo good 😊
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Nathan Cardon, Matthew Brown & Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social trace the flow of people/products/ideas concerning the bicycle's sports culture in a transatlantic triangle in the Journal of Sport History
muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Project MUSE - At the Bicycle Races: Global Sporting Culture and National Belonging at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, 1899–1913
muse.jhu.edu
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM