Just three more weeks to fill out our national survey! If you teach about the #BritishEmpire in an English secondary school, or are considering doing so, we want to hear from you!

redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=L33…

👇This is consistent with findings of our report 'Beyond HESA' by Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network (see oxforducu.org.uk), showing that hourly paid College tutors regularly earn less than the Oxford Living Wage and work (on average) 3.5hrs per paid contact hour! This crisis cannot continue!

Really interesting discussion in Abigail Branford talk through revolutions in development! Brought to mind Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey’s recent work to bring about more recent radical engagement with development… great ideas shared- thank you! #GAConf24

Resign.

As many of you know, I am a research assistant on an innovative project, led by Jason Todd & Alice Pettigrew. Today, we have been featured in Tes!! You can read the article here: tes.com/magazine/analy… and visit PortraitEMB for more information

So proud of us, team!! ❤️

uh oh nobody tell Fukuyama

PhD studentships now available at Sussex for Black British students, from the Stuart Hall Foundation:
sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…
Do get in touch if interested?

This is so powerful from Priyamvada Gopal ©

We shouldn’t underestimate our enemy. But they shouldn’t underestimate us either.

I am looking for a post-doctoral researcher to join this brilliant research project looking at how the topics of Empire, Migration and belonging are taught in English schools. Here is the link to the advert it closes on 14th Nov:  jobs.ac.uk/job/DDX141/pos…

This is why I wrote this blog on the pedagogy of professional decline. Don’t sit back and let it happen. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie…

University of Oxford is the world’s #1 ranked university. Academics at its colleges are regularly paid less than the living wage. We ran a survey this summer about their experiences. The results are damning. Here’s our new report on pay and conditions for casualised staff UCU #ucurising

📢Call for research participants!📢 Have you been working on decolonisation/antiracism in education in England? If so, I would love to hear from you for my doctoral study. Please get in touch and/or help spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Great piece in #AHAPerspectives on how not all enquiry questions are created equal.
(Or, horror 🫨, 'inquiry questions' in the US)

Definitely resonates with why 'Was the British Empire good or bad?' is not an appropriate enquiry question historians.org/research-and-p… American Historical Association

Well that caused mixed feelings. Just back from this debate. It was strange to be engaging in a polite, well-mannered debate with a charming person who compared C19 British colonists (who of course, violently dispossessed Indigenous peoples) with migrants crossing the Channel to…

OxPeace is delighted to invite you to its 2023 Conference on ‘Learning from Ukraine: origins, impacts, and lessons for peacebuilding’

The Conference will take place next week Saturday, April 29th, from 09h00 to 17h30 at St John’s College’s auditorium (St John's College)

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📢CALL FOR INTERVIEWEES📢

Hello! I am looking for Black people willing to be interviewed about their time living in Coventry & select towns in Warwickshire, between 1954 and 1995. If this applies to you & you'd like to take part, please review the flyer below ⬇️

really enjoyd this frm Wiseman Zondi: 'the irony of Zuma funnelling funds meant to empower black South Africans to high-powered PR execs (most of them white) in the UK... there is nothing radical, economic or transformational about the so-called RET force'
dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

I wrote this piece years ago whilst researching for my PhD in Indo-British royal relations. The surrender of the gem was demanded in the treaty by the East India Company, together with the annexation of Punjab - all from its 10y/o king, Duleep Singh. 2/4

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