Congratulations Talita! Reading an extract of her thesis to her peers and friends after her successful viva!

Graduation day.

Thanks to the wonderful Peter Wilson we now have the full archive of Elizabeth Wilson including hundreds of humanitarian photographs from 1958 to the 1990s. A unique collection. Time to invest in a slde scanner!

A challenge to fellow historians: can we name another example in a democracy of disenfranchisement affecting 4.2 millions people in the name of freedom?

Why is the notion of herd immunity not reassuring when issued by government advised by eugenics sympathisers?

Tomorrow might not be the Guy Fawkes Night you were dreaming of so why not escape into the story behind the fireworks with BBC's Gunpowder!🎆 Filmed in - you guessed it - Yorkshire! Explore the amazing locations🗺️ that helped bring history to life: filmedinyorkshire.co.uk/productions/gu…

All welcome: Humanitarianism and Human Rights: Book Launch and Roundtable Tickets, Thu 29 Apr 2021 at 15:00 | Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/humanitarian…

multi-tasking this afternoon as it’s my partner’s birthday tomorrow (🎂) but I couldn’t miss the HCRInstitute roundtable on human rights and humanitarianism! fab to hear about Alan Lester’s chapter in the volume. sometimes zoom isn’t the worst thing in the world.

The European Review of History is announcing its translation prize: erhtranslationprize2021.wordpress.com This year we are seeking submissions from young scholars in Arabic, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian,Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak or Turkish.

So here it is: the first explicit link between government defence of imperial nostalgia and retaining Red Wall votes: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

🎉 New article out with Jnl of Cont History: ‘Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peacekeepers on the Frontline of West Papua’s Re-colonisation, 1962–3’. On peacekeepers’ role in human and civil rights violations against the Papuans. doi.org/10.1177/002200… #twitterstorians

Laure is one of the most innovative historians of aid, humanitarianism, and healthcare. She also happens to be a wonderfully generous supervisor and friend. Order her new book now!

Congratulations to Dr Margot Tudor Warnings from the Archive University of Exeter on winning this year's Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize! Judges said "The writing is of publishable quality throughout". Margot did her PhD at The University of Manchester. Find out more at bisa.ac.uk/news/bisa-2021… @UoMPolitics

"Everybody who warned Project Fear was going to happen was shouted down by the people now in power. "Before your very eyes the Government are saying the predictions were right - and it was part of our plan." James O'Brien

Just received my copy of cambridge.org/core/books/ngo… I am really looking forward to reading it!

New Arts and Humanities Research Council article in Soc Hist Med Caring Under Fire Across Three Continents: The Hadfield-Spears Ambulance, 1941–1945 tinyurl.com/5n8b3wdy @HCRI Researching the Impact of Attacks on Healthcare (RIAH).

'The Politics of Catholic humanitarian Aid: missionaries and American Relief in Algeria, 1942-47' - TaitheModern's Arts and Humanities Research Council article is available (open-access): academic.oup.com/fh/advance-art… SSFH @HCRI colonialandtransnationalintimacies

HCRI is #hiring for new history project on humanitarian medicine 🩺📚 Project page ➡️ hcri.manchester.ac.uk/research/proje… We're 🔎 for: 2 x Research Associates - tinyurl.com/48mpw6ax & tinyurl.com/mrxce3rp 1 x Archivist - tinyurl.com/2p8z63jc 🗓️ Apply today (or by 21 June) 🤝

Dear all we have three new positions in Manchester for the Wellcome funded History of Humanitarian Medicine project. 2 post docs and 1 archivist: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp… jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp… jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…