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12 September 1977. South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko (aged 30) died while beaten in police custody. Biko has been called the “anti-apartheid movement’s first icon”. Nelson Mandela described him as “the spark that lit a veld fire across South Africa”.

A crisp, autumnal, early morning walk to mentally prepare for induction week

And it’s a wrap on our first day! Big welcome to our first years in History & History and English. We had a great time meeting you. See you tomorrow and the rest of the week for your induction.

I like that predatory journals have upped their game from wanting me to re-publish an article with them, to now telling me my article is award winning in an attempt to get me to engage with them. I can pretend to myself this is career progression

We’ve had such a great week welcoming our first years to LJMU History! We can’t wait to work you over the coming year. Looking forward to say hello 👋 to L5 and L6 students on Monday! 2024-25 is now officially underway….

Excited to kick off the final conference of the season

Read the new article by Chitja Twala and John Aerni-Flessner on the QwaQwa Ski resort as a window for exploring the #politicalhistory of the #border between #Lesotho and #SouthAfrica. Available #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4ebD5vH

A condensed open access version of this piece can be found here: commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/commonwealth/e…

ANNOUNCEMENT: The IHD research group has now joined with the British International History Group (BIHG). We thank all of our conference participants & followers for their support. Please follow BIHG for events & discussions on international history. 🌍 #History #Diplomacy

A very proud moment for my colleagues and friends in LJMU International Relations and Politics @Panderson2588 @StinnaHobbs Dr Marcelle Trote Martins

Two years old but still holds up Dr André Keil

The University of Rhodesia Principle was somewhat nonchalant in his response to questions from the British government about violence between Black and White students on campus in 1976

Writing the 2nd book feels simultaneously easier and harder than writing the 1st. On the one hand, I definitely have the skillset to do it much quicker now, on the other I also have less patience & motivation. Definitely prefer the (relatively) quick win of publishing articles

I spoke a week ago to colleagues at work about some reflections on the US election. The logic of elections gets even weirder in the last few days as campaign teams are frenzied in grabbing those last votes! LJMU International Relations and Politics youtu.be/nEF1BASWBQA?fe…

5.Labour’s story, just like the US Democrats, doesn’t make narrative sense. Rather than explain how 40 years of atomising, neoliberal plunder; the selling-off of & destruction of our public services; the undermining or our democracy, the hollowing out and selling off of our

I wonder if council results in ultra safe seats like this will scare Labour. Losing votes to left and right could see many seats lost in more marginal northern constituencies in both local and national elections.

New The Green Party advert just dropped explaining why you should vote Green. And its a cracker!