Based on previously unused Zambian archival sources, Mutale Mazimba's article uncovers the lives of the Mtenga-Tenga, African porters in the British Army in World War I, and the effect this had on relations with chiefs & communities at home. Mutale T Mazimba-Kaunda tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10……

Postdoc opportunity at UFS. This is a good department.

My article on the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstration in 1968 is now availale (open access) with Contemporary British History.

In it I make three arguments related to the policing of post-war Britain... 🧵

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Read how local anti-apartheid groups all over Britain took up local issues in their fight against apartheid #antiapartheidlegacy #ACTSA_UK #AntiApartheidMovementScottishCommittee
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Mwayi Lusaka's new article shows how the memory & mythology of David Livingstone have been preserved & reconstructed to enhance international co-operation between #Malawi & #Scotland in what could be understood as ‘heritage diplomacy’.
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I'm very proud that today marks the release of my first book, Credit, Currency and Capital - the first dedicated to the #Scottish #Financialrevolution Thank you to Jim Livesey and Alan R MacDonald for their support. And to University of Dundee and Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology
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Global Solidarity Activism - the reseach network connecting the local to the global that Dr. Kate Law and I kickstarted earlier this year with the help of Jocelyn Olcott Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley @chrisfevre Matt Graham and lots of other great people - has a website! globalsolidarityactivism.uni.mau.se

Very sorry to hear of the death of former Sheffield councillor Mike Pye.

He chaired UK Local Authorities Against Apartheid from 1984 to 1994 and led groundbreaking work on the boycott of South Africa, captured recently in an oral history project with Chris Fevre UFS
RIP Mike

It was brilliant to start setting up the Scotland, Global Solidarity and Mandela exhibition in University of Dundee Tower Foyer with Museums, UoD. The boards and various anti-apartheid artifacts from South Africa and the UK will be on display until 16 December!

'Make it Happen! – Scotland’s Mandela Statue'
Crowdfunder now live at bit.ly/MandelaCrowd for the £20,000 we still need to create and install the statue in Mandela Place, Glasgow as a permanent focus for education and information.
RTs welcome - Please spread the word!

On this day, 12 June 1988, we held a huge rally in Glasgow Green addressed by O.R Tambo and launched the 'Free Mandela' march to London Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation @nelsonmandela Anti-Apartheid Legacy

Gupta brothers arrested in Dubai over alleged corruption in South Africa theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…

Great piece by Simon Peplow highlighting the central flaw in the recent Police Race Action Plan

My interview with Jacob Dunne, aka Jacob Dunne, about the single punch that resulted in a manslaughter conviction – and how he turned his life around with the help of the parents of James Hodgkinson, the man he killed
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#OnThisDay1994 #NelsonMandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected President of 🇿🇦

#KarimaBegum Visual Communication created this portrait in response to our brief
#Mandela , juxtaposing Mandela the lawyer & 'Accused#1' (ref.RivoniaTrial) framed in victor's laurels #OTD

MI5 asked police to spy on political activities of children, inquiry hears theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…