Tell me you're a historian, without telling me you're a historian...

I have 🎉 officially 🎉 booked my flights for my research trip to Nairobi in October! 🎉
Please send me all your recommendations and tips!

So happy to have finally received my copy of State of Emergency by Max Pinckers. As someone working on photography during the Kenya Emergency I'm so grateful to have access to such an amazingly thorough piece of work.

The call for papers for the 2024 #SWWDTP Summer Research Festival has been extended to Monday 29thApril at 11.59pm!

This year’s theme is ‘Home and Belonging’ and the festival will take place online from 5th– 6th June.

For more info, contact [email protected]

Working my way through the New Statesman's coverage of the Kenya Emergency and was particularly struck by this damning image published alongside Barbara Castle's article on the deaths of 11 detainees at Hola.

Some powerful symbolism.

Three-year postdoc at Edinburgh on 'Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present'

East African focus is on Kenya/Tanzania

jobs.ac.uk/job/DGZ833/pos…

Google Photos has reminded me that it was six years ago today since I spoke publicly at University of Dundee for the first time about my research on Mau Mau and the Kenya Emergency.

Look at that very concerned baby face!

Six years and counting!

Newspaper sampling is a humbling experience... IT TAKES SO LONG.

I'm extremely late to the party with this one, but I just finished Babel and I am not ashamed to say it's the first fiction book that's made me cry in years! 😢

My dog exemplifies exactly how I feel about this past week.

Finally picked up a copy of Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld today in my local Waterstones and was lucky enough to get a signed copy. 🙌

🚨Everyone stop right now and read this article about LSE's appalling response to abusive prof. This has been YEARS in the making:

'Women silenced across ranks: LSE’s mishandled sexual misconduct investigation into professor'

thebeaverlse.co.uk/sexual-miscond…

Just when I think I've seen all the horrific imagery from Kenya in the 1950s, another collection performs the visual equivalent of punching me in the face.

#TalkingEmpire 🎙

In this edition of the Talking Empire Podcast, Leyla Belle Drake, a member of Imperial & Global, discusses her work on the #RussellTribunal on the Vietnam War. Listen for free at imperialglobalexeter.com/talking-empire/. #Twitterstorians #Imperialism #ImperialHistory

A successful research visit to York over the last few days. I now have all my UK files (excluding BL). 🎉 A big thank you to Thomas Wright for showing me the best pubs and chatting all things Kenya. 🍺